A Study on the Bag of Virtues of Early Childhood Character Education in Children’s literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-353
Author(s):  
Kyung-Min Lee ◽  
Hye-Kyung Yoon ◽  
Gum-Soon Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Children’S Literature

scholarly journals When Authenticity Goes Missing: How Monocultural Children’s Literature Is Silencing the Voices and Contributing to Invisibility of Children from Minority Backgrounds

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Helen Adam
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Long Day ◽  
Day Care Centres ◽  
Book Collections ◽  
The Impact

The importance of recognising, valuing and respecting a child’s family, culture, language and values is central to socially just education and is increasingly articulated in educational policy worldwide. Inclusive children’s literature can support children’s human rights and contribute to equitable and socially just outcomes for all children. However, evidence suggests many educational settings provide monocultural book collections which are counterproductive to principles of diversity and social justice. Further, that educators’ understandings and beliefs about diversity can contribute to inequitable provision and use of diverse books and to inequitable outcomes of book sharing for many children. This paper reports on a larger study investigating factors and relationships influencing the use of children’s literature to support principles of cultural diversity in the kindergarten rooms of long day care centres. The study was conducted within an ontological perspective of constructivism and an epistemological perspective of interpretivism informed by sociocultural theory. A mixed methods approach was adopted, and convergent design was employed interpret significant relationships and their meanings. Twenty-four educators and 110 children from four long day care centres in Western Australia participated. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, video-based observations, field notes, document analysis and a book audit. This study firstly identified that current book collections in kindergarten rooms of long day care centres promote mono-cultural viewpoints and ‘othering’ of minority groups through limited access to books portraying inclusive and authentic cultural diversity. Secondly, that educators had limited understandings of the role of literature in acknowledging and valuing diversity and rarely used it to promote principles of diversity, resulting in a practice of “othering” those from minority group backgrounds. The key challenges which emerged from the study concerned beliefs, understanding and confidence of educators about diversity and inclusion, and the impact of these on their approaches to promoting principles of diversity through the use of children’s books. This research contributes to discussion on the value of children’s literature in achieving international principles of diversity. These findings have important social justice implications. The outcomes of this study have implications for educators, policy makers, early childhood organisations and those providing higher education and training for early childhood educators.

scholarly journals CERITA BERGAMBAR SEBAGAI KONKRETISASI PEMBELAJARAN SASTRA ANAK DI SEKOLAH DASAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-356
Author(s):  
Jalu Norva Illa Putra ◽  
Nina Widyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Picture Story ◽  
Narrative Forms

This community service activity aims to train teachers to make learning media in the form of pictorial stories with children's literary content. This article is a case study of community service at the Nakula Gugus Teacher Working Group in Wonogiri, Central Java. Children's literature in this context is defined as a medium that is used as an intermediary to convey a form of character education for children. Apart from this, children's literature is considered an appropriate medium because it is able to attract students' interest through visual and narrative forms. Children's literature is also able to have more appeal if from the beginning it comes from ideas that are owned by the children themselves. This will stimulate a sense of ownership and logic to the things that the story structure wants to instill. The method used is lectures and discussions, then in the form of workshops on picture story books. The result of this community service is a picture book with a theme that is close to children related to the use of gadgets, which are then given the title Playing with Friends.

scholarly journals The Effects of Children’s Literature on Preservice Early Childhood Mathematics Teachers’ Thinking

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Jett
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Education Majors ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Mathematics Teaching And Learning

In this article, the author shares an intervention of using children’s literature as a pedagogical frame for an undergraduate mathematics content course with early childhood education majors to influence their thinking about mathematics teaching and learning. With this case study of 29 preservice teachers, the author found that literature increased preservice elementary teachers’ excitement about mathematics, heightened their self-efficacy in mathematics, and motivated them to design innovative mathematics lessons. By elaborating on these findings, the author makes a case for the continued need for mathematically competent teachers in elementary classroom spaces, and the author advocates for the incorporation of literature as a means to do this work. Finally, the author provides implications for future research and practice with other SoTL-related projects involving children’s literature.

scholarly journals Character Based Text for Development on V Grade Students of Elementary School

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-370
Author(s):  
Burhanuddin Habibi Nasution ◽  
Abdul Rahman ◽  
Syahnan Daulay
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Moral Character

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scholarly journals Children as eco-citizens?

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Presthus Heggen ◽  
Barbara Maria Sageidet ◽  
Nina Goga ◽  
Liv Torunn Grindheim ◽  
Veronica Bergan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Wild Food ◽  
Nature Connection ◽  
Being And Becoming

Education for sustainability in early childhood tends to focus on practices and advocacy, rather than on the aims of this education. We suggest that the aim should be to consider children as being and becoming eco-citizens. This suggestion is built on an exploration of children as eco-citizens. With theories concerning child-sized citizenship we suggest a description of children and adults as being and becoming eco-citizen. We explore this through the fields of nature connection and science and children’s curiosity. We find that environmentally friendly practices as gardening and harvesting wild food show how children’s eco-citizenship is realizable. We support this additionally by references to how children’s literature, seeing how children depicted as eco-citizens can support the notion of children as eco-citizens. Through these analyses, we conclude that children should be viewed as being and becoming eco-citizens.

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