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Researching Children's Literature Otherwise to Decolonise Childhoods in Experimental Curriculum

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores children's literature as a tool for decolonising childhood and curriculum through experimental reading practices. Based on post‐qualitative enquiry, and grounded in decolonial, feminist, and posthumanist theories, the study analyses two reading encounters with children using picturebooks from Global South.
Estrella Moya‐González   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological Insights and Trends: Participatory Positioning of Children and Youth in Visual Art Education Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 252-271, May 2026.
Abstract Participatory research methods have a focus on facilitating research processes that engage with participants and, as such, aim to promote individual voice, facilitate richer reflection and dialogue, and enable the articulation of participants' unique experiences.
Angela Eckhoff
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of French Publications in the Evolution of Modern Picturebooks: Illustrators and Serial Characters

open access: yesRivista di Storia dell'Educazione
Picturebooks (albums pour la jeunesse) first achieve an identity as media in their own right in the 19th century. Thanks to authors from different European countries and from the United States, the early 20th century brings about a transition from ...
Luca Ganzerla
doaj   +1 more source

The Art of Family Reading: Adapting Mary Shelley's ‘The Mortal Immortal’ (1833) Into a Graphic Novel

open access: yesLiteracy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The popularity of children's graphic novels reflects a rising interest in multimodal literature, and the academic benefits of reading graphic novels have been widely documented. However, little research exists on the possibilities afforded by creating graphic novels.
Susan Civale, Rachael Stone
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Inalienable Literacy Education Rights and the Science of Reading

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
The graphical abstract includes an image of a tree rooted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; this fruitful tree represents rights‐affirming literacy education. 15 literacy education rights (elaborated in the article) are listed as dimensions of rights‐affirming education.
Maren S. Aukerman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complex Temporalities and Shared Reading: Picturebooks in the Anthropocene

open access: yesCahier voor Literatuurwetenschap
Starting from the notion that the current environmental crisis challenges traditional notions of temporality, this article argues that children’s picturebooks are uniquely positioned to help engender a ‘critical temporal literacy’ (Huebener 2020, 24 ...
Jonas Vanhove
doaj   +1 more source

Barntid och växttid

open access: yesBarnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
Child Time and Plant Time: Eco-critical Readings of the Lapses of Time and the Relationship between Plants and Children in Two Picturebooks This article examines the unsynchronized and synchronized lapses of time, in terms of “child time” and “plant ...
Emelie Moberg, Anna Westberg Broström
doaj   +1 more source

Color as A Narrative Device in Illustration: A Systematic Review

open access: yesColor Research &Application, Volume 51, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
Color in picture book illustration operates simultaneously as a representational code, cognitive scaffold, and affective cue supporting theories such as Dual Coding and multimodal discourse while revealing gaps in methodology and cross‐cultural research.
Lidia Jiménez‐Duarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Materiality, Metafiction and “The Reality of Fantasy”in Contemporary Picturebooks

open access: yesMagistra Iadertina
According to many scholars, picturebooks are artefacts that deserve not only to be read but also cherished. Artists and publishers nowadays experiment more and more with book architecture in order to attract consumers.
Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching Reading as a Complex and Multidimensional Process

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, Volume 79, Issue 5, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the teaching of reading as a complex and multidimensional process amidst current approaches to teaching reading forwarded by new legislation and curricula that have been adopted across the United States. We underscore the importance of a comprehensive understanding of the teaching of early reading by bringing together ...
Faythe Beauchemin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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