These include the relationship between children's literature and the conceptions of childhood, the question of whether children’s literature should instruct or delight, the tension between popular and prestigious literature for children, and the connection/association between oral, written and visual modes.īlock 1: Instruction or Delight? gives an overview of the field and raises questions about the nature and purposes of children’s literature, focusing on some contemporary best-sellers and the reasons for their importance.
Alongside the study of these texts and performances, you will read a selection of related critical material and consider some of the major themes, issues and debates in the field. These examples are drawn from different periods of Anglophone children’s literature. In this module, you will study key examples of novels, picture books, poems and creative performance produced for children aged 3–18 years old. In short, children’s literature matters it is significant to parents, educators, librarians, psychologists, childhood studies students and students of literature and – most importantly – to children themselves. Rowling or Philip Pullman suggests that children’s literature is thriving and developing in the twenty-first century. In addition, the success of authors such as J. The study of children’s literature is fast becoming established at both undergraduate and graduate level with its own academic journals and critical literature, and collections of children’s literature are held in many major libraries and museums. Browse qualifications in related subjects OU qualifications are modular in structure the credits from this undergraduate module could count towards a certificate of higher education, diploma of higher education, foundation degree or honours degree. You will learn about the distinctiveness and purposes of children’s literature, its prestigious and popular modes and its different representations of children’s worlds. The module also includes the study of picture books old and new, stage performance and film, young adult fiction, storytelling and poetry. You will study children’s literature in English, ranging from its beginnings in eighteenth-century chapbooks and fairy tales, through seminal nineteenth-century novels, to contemporary examples of fiction illustrating current trends. It focuses on constructions of childhood in children’s literature and will require you to employ close reading skills, literary analysis and critical engagement in relation to its texts and assignments. This module provides a broad introduction to the vibrant and growing field of children’s literature studies.
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