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Lecturer(s)
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Bubíková Šárka, doc. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The concept of childhood and readings for children. Development of children's literature. Genres of children's literature. Poetry, nursery rhymes, limericks, riddles. Fables, legends, folk tales. The fairy tale. Fantasy. Adventure stories, tall tale, dime novels. Domestic tale. Picture books.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Skills training
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Learning outcomes
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The objective of the course is to introduce British and American children's literature. The course is aimed especially at future teachers of English to make them acquainted with the kinds of text appropriate for the age group they will eventually teach. The lectures focus on the history of children's literature, the changing concept of childhood, genres of children's literature. The seminars focus on particular texts of children's literature and the ways of utilizing them in ELT classrooms.
Students will gain overview of literary production appropriate for the age group they will teach, thus they will know about suitable literary material for ELT and develop their ability to utilize the texts.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Work-related product analysis
seminar attenadnce compulsory. oral seminar presentation (will be specified) written exam
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Recommended literature
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Avery, Gillian. Behold the child : American children and their books 1621-1922. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8018-5066-5.
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Bubíková, Šárka . Literary childhoods : growing up in British and American literature. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart :, 2008. ISBN 978-80-86818-67-2.
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Bubíková, Šárka. Úvod do studia dětství v americké literatuře. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7395-214-3.
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CARPENTER, H.; PRICHARD, M. The Oxford Companion to Children´s Literature. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-19-211582-0.
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Deborah Cogan Thacker, Jean Webb. Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism. Routledge, 2002.
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Hunt, Peter. An introduction to children's literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-289243-6.
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MacLeod, Anne Scott. American childhood : essays on children´s literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8203-1551-6.
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Mathews, Richard. Fantasy : the liberation of imagination. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-93890-2.
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McCulloch, Fiona. Children's literature in context. London: Continuum, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84706-487-5.
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Rudd, David, . The Routledge companion to children's literature. London: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-47271-5.
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SILVEY, A. (ed.). The Essential Guide to Children´s Books and Their Creators. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. ISBN 0-618-19082-1.
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Zipes, Jack. Fairy tales and the art of subversion.
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