CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: PART B
IMPORTANT
INTRODUCTION:
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Children's literature is a
subject to a range of different kinds of evaluation from the perspectives of educational and literary criteria.
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What does criteria means?
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[Criteria means
to be under judgement.]
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This criteria is linked to
different ideas about the nature and purposes of children's
literature and to particular conception of
childhood.
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Adult literary aesthetic in children's books =
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[Reading
good-quality children's literature]
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Children's books may also be judged according to their pedagogic value:
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Providing a real
life.
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Having moral
positions.
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Childhood is viewed as a training
ground for adulthood, a model of childhood as a time of freedom and play produces the valuing of literature
which offers children a rich imaginative world,
and an escape from harsh reality.
Valuing of literature = imaginative
world = escape from reality
Valuing instruction× Valuing delight
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This tension is cross-cut by values
connected with the social and cultural dimensions of particular historical
contexts:
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Class
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Family life
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Gender roles
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National
identities
