Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108438452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 152 str.

Melissa Terras

Opis

Providing a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

Recenzje

'Terras's work has become more urgent since its publication. It calls for further investigation into how the academy and academics are presented in children's literature, but also for steps forward in diversity and representation. At the moment it seems that the real-life academy might, at least in part, depend on it.' Clare Cavenagh, The Cambridge Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Related research: representation, vocation, and higher education; 3. Research methodology; 4. An analysis of academics in children's illustrated literature; 5. Pedagogical, baffled, or mad: the stereotype of academics as plaything; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix A. Children's books included in the analysis; Appendix B. Academics identified in children's literature, listed chronologically; Appendix C. Potential books identified (but unavailable).