Children’s Literature Research in Greece: The Situation Today

As Nathalie op de Beeck (2018) has recently pointed out, children's literature scholars need to forge more meaningful connexions between ecoliteracy and environmental action to create possibilities for achieving environmental justice. I propose that we achieve this goal by (auto-)deconstructing our research practices and subjectivities through promoting the participation of children as active contributors to all elements of the research process. Such approaches enable young decision-makers to engage with one another, with books and with the world through ethics of interconnectivity. I see such praxis as exemplifying deconstructive events and discuss their emergence in Shaping a Preferable Future: Children Reading, Thinking and Talking about Alternative Communities and Times (ChildAct), a project I co-conducted with children in Cambridgeshire, UK, in the school year 2017–2018. The project centered on child-adult collaboration towards a better understanding of how utopian literature shapes ideas for preferred futures, how these ideas evolve in readers’ encounters with their localities and how they call readers into action. As I show, ChildAct testifies to the possibility of de-centering children's literature research towards a field promoting a shared sense of belonging to and responsibility for our world.

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Finally, time to listen? ‘Unsilencing’ the child in children’s literature research

PRACTICE ◽

10.1080/25783858.2019.1659627 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 106-111

Author(s):

Ben Screech

Keyword(s):

Children's Literature ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

Literature Research

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Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches (review)

Children s Literature Association Quarterly ◽

10.1353/chq.0.1947 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 105-107

Author(s):

J. D. Stahl

Keyword(s):

Children's Literature ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

Literature Research ◽

Sociological Approaches

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Imagology Meets Children's Literature

International Research in Children s Literature ◽

10.3366/ircl.2011.0003 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Emer O'Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Comparative Literature ◽

Children's Literature ◽

Ethnic Groups ◽

Postcolonial Theory ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

Cultural Construction ◽

Review Article ◽

Literature Research ◽

Ideological Criticism ◽

End Members

Since the 1970s, children's literature research has developed a number of approaches, from simple ideological criticism to more sophisticated applications of postcolonial theory, to analyse how, and to what end, members of other national, cultural, racial and ethnic groups are represented in texts for children. However, a field of study within comparative literature, imagology, which specifically addresses the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters in literature, has not yet made much impact. This review article will present its origins and methods of investigation as well as sketch areas in children's literature of imagological interest, which have been or are still waiting to be productively addressed, to show what the domain can gain from this approach.

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Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel (Ed). New Trends in Children’s Literature Research --Twenty-first Century Approaches –200-2012. (2014). Spain: Peter Lang Edition. 239 pages.

InterSedes ◽

10.15517/isucr.v16i34.22574 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 16 (34) ◽

Author(s):

Marina Vásquez Carranza

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Children's Literature ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

First Century ◽

Literature Research ◽

Children And Young Adults ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Set Up ◽

The University

This text incorporates various studies by researchers who belong to the group Anglo-German Children’s Literature and its Translation at the University of Vigo, first set up in 1992. The main focus is to describe new tendencies within literature for children and young adults, including translation, adaptation, comics, and palindrome.

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