Group 15: Mystic Mischief: Banned Books in Classrooms

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Pinto ◽  
Erica Gordon ◽  
Ardita Sinoimeri ◽  
Maddie Vloet
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Group 15 ◽  
The Witch

This poster will look at children’s literature that has been banned from schools due to themes of magic, witchcraft, or mysticism. We will be looking at four different popular children's novels, and dissecting the reasons behind their prohibition. These include: C. S. Lewis’ (1950) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which, although it has never been banned, has been challenged by numerous public schools, religious communities and public libraries, as its main character, the lion Aslan, can be interpreted as a Christ-like figure. The novel The Witches by Roald Dahl, another celebrated children’s author, has, however, been banned due to its glamourization of witchcraft, as well its misogynistic views. We draw on scholarship on magic and modernity (eg. Randall Styers 2004) to contextualize the fear over magic and mysticism in relation to “legitimate religion” and with respect to the supposed moral vulnerability of children. 

scholarly journals The Construction of Pious Children in Serial Salman Dan Hamzah

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Deden Purnama ◽  
Dhita Hapsarani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Book Illustration ◽  
Textual Study ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Religious Ideal

Children’s literature is often used as a medium for teaching values, for example religious values, in order to shape children’s character based on the understanding or ideology of certain groups. Through religious-based children’s literature, the figure of a religious ideal child was created and called a pious child. This example is applied by Salafi Islamic groups in Indonesia. The group that bases its teachings from the Salaf creates Islamic children’s book genre called ”Sunna children’s book”. The method used in this article is library-based qualitative research. Studies of pious character in European minority Muslim children’s literature have been widely carried out by Green-Oldendorf (2011), Shavit (2016) and Janson (2017), while studies of pious children in Indonesian contexts have only been done little, including this article. Textual study on the construction of pious children character is carried out according to the concept of ideal child in children’s literature by Purbani (2009), children book illustration and visual by Nodelman (2004), and pious Muslim child and childhood by research approach (Hendra-Priadi, 2019 and Scourfield et. al., 2013). The result of the research shows that pious children are represented through the main character who is very diligent in worshiping, behaving well, and obedient to parents. In addition, the construction of pious children in Serial Salman dan Hamzah is based on Salafi ideology concept of tarbiyah (education) that textually refers to the Quran and Hadith.

“Houses are alive. No?”The image of a “revived” house in English literaturein the late XIX — early XX century

2020 ◽  
pp. 298-312
Author(s):  
Georgy A. Veligorsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Howards End ◽  
Edwardian Literature ◽  
Horror Literature

In this article we will talk about the unusual topos that occurs in Victorian and Edwardian literature — the “revived” estate. Indirectly going back to Gothic literature and the “horror literature” that inherited it (where the house can come to life literally, become harmful, frightening and even mortally dangerous for the inhabitant), however, it develops in a completely different way. The ghosts that inhabit the rooms of such a mansion are the guardians of a good and bright memory, “hidden joy”; embodied by the past, who lives in a shaky, invisible world. These ghosts have many hypostases: sometimes they turn out to be just a figment of the tenant’s imagination, and sometimes they are a real poltergeist, but not frightening, but protecting and preserving (W. Woolf, “A Haunted House”). Another manifestation of this topos can be called a house that comes to life, when the hero distinguishes between the beating of his heart (as happens in the novel by E.M. Forster “Howards End”) or hears a whisper of voices in the curtains shaken by the wind. The combination of these two motives (poltergeist and living house) is also found in the works of modernists (W. Woolf, “Orlando: A Biography”). Of particular interest is the image of a revived estate house in children’s literature; in this vein, we will consider the novel by Ph. Pierce, “Tom’s Midnight Garden”.

scholarly journals THE ARTISTIC WORLD OF MODERN CHILDREN'S PROSE

2020 ◽  
pp. 200-205
Author(s):  
A. Ashimbaeva ◽  
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Z. Tursynali ◽  
S. Sabigazina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The One

The article tells that the main character traits are laid in childhood. It is during this period of growing up that a worldview and ideas about morality are formed, one of the main sources of which, of course, is children's literature. It is for this reason that, over time, people began to understand the need for the existence of works especially for children. Modern children's prose is developing, transforming, no worse than the one that was before. The problems of the past are being replaced by more urgent and fresh ones. The works of the latest children's literature are a treasure trove of the most important diverse information that you need to be able to reveal, discern, and read between the lines. Thus, the latest literature pushes us ourselves to seek morality, hidden meaning, which leads to the development of various spheres of personality. Today children's literature begins to return to its main task - the ethical education of the younger generation. Writers talk about morality, morality, mutual understanding between parents and children.

scholarly journals Unsur Pembangun dalam Sastra Anak Novel Mata di Tanah Melus Karya Okky Madasari: Kajian Strukturalisme

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Nur Cahyati ◽  
Heny Friantary ◽  
Ixsir Eliya
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Collection Data

Children's literature produced in Indonesia it self is not too much and studies are rarely carried out. Therefore, it is important to have an assessment of children's literature, especially novels. The research objective was to describe the building blocks in Okky Madasari's Mata di Tanah Melus novel. The approach used in this research is a structuralism approach. The research method used content analysis method. The data source is the novel Mata di Tanah Melus by Okky Madasari. The research time was carried out for one month. Data collection techniques using library techniques. The data collection instrument was the novel Mata di Tanah Melus by Okky Madasari. The data validity technique uses credibility testing techniques, namely increasing persistence and using reference materials. Data analysis in this study used Miles and Huberman's analysis model, namely data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. The results showed that the building blocks found in the novel Mata di Tanah Melus, namely the facts of the story in the form of a forward plot. The main character is Matara, the supporting character consists of 18 people, the white character consists of 5 people, and the black character is the Hunters. The setting consists of 17 places. The time setting occurs in the morning, noon, and night. The socio-cultural background raises the culture of the Melus Tribe. The theme raised in the novel Mata di Tanah Melus is the theme of humanity. The means of the story are titles and points of view. The title of the novel contains two meanings and experiences semantic distortion. The point of view used is the main actor's first person point of view

scholarly journals To Traumatize or to Put under a Taboo? Holocaust Narratives in Children’s Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 251-264
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Rybak
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Young Reader ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Holocaust Narratives

The article investigates the ways of representing the Holocaust in children’s literature published in Poland in the 21st century (e.g. Joanna Rudniańska’s Kotka Brygidy and Smoke by Antón Fortes and Joanna Concejo). Phenomena such as anti-Semitism or death of the main character, called by researchers and critics inappropriate for a young audience, are analyzed with the use of the research on taboo in children’s literature (Bogusława Sochańska and Justyna Czechowska) as well as confronted with the threat of “traumatization” of the young reader (Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek). The analysis proves that the Shoah only appears to be well-represented in children’s literature as many topics are still omitted.

scholarly journals Andrei Platonov and the discussion of the fairy tale in children's literature of the 1920s

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Aleksey O. Kostylev
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New School ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
New Literature ◽  
The Way

The article is devoted to the discussion around the fairy tale, which found a place in the magazine «On the Way to a New School», the newspaper «Reader & Writer», its main provisions. In the 1920s pedagogues and children’s writers headed by Nadezhda Krupskaya revised old children’s literature and studied the theory of a new Soviet book for children, publishing articles and reviews. The connection between work in children’s literature and ideology, anti-religious propaganda is traced. Attention is drawn to the discussion of the category of the fantastic in a fairy tale among the authors of «On the Way to a New School», «Reader & Writer». Examples of new literature for children, its differences and similarities with the previous one are given. Andrei Platonov could also have known about the discussion around the genre of a fairy tale in 1926–1927 after moving to Moscow, as indicated by the epistolary, biographical facts and works of art, in particular the story «The Ethereal Path», the poem «About Electricity». The episodes from the novel «Chevengur» are considered in the context of this discussion.

scholarly journals Perspectives on Inclusive Education: Need for Muslim Children’s Literature

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 450
Author(s):  
Antum A. Panjwani
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Curricular Resources

Muslim students and communities in Western sociopolitical and educational contexts confront substantive challenges of racisms, Islamophobia, and under- and misrepresentations in media as well as in literature. Creating a robust repertoire of curricular resources for teaching and learning, teacher development programs, and schooling in general offers a promise of developing classroom practices, which in turn promotes an inclusive discourse that recognizes the unique position and presence of a Muslim child. The present article examines the prospects of developing such a curriculum called Muslim Children’s Literature for inclusive schooling and teacher development programs in the context of public education in Ontario, Canada. It is situated in the larger umbrella of creating specific theory and methodology for education that lend exposure to Muslim cultures and civilizations. Development of such a literature as curricular resources addresses the questions of Muslim identities through curriculum perceptions so as to initiate critical conversations around various educational challenges that the development and dissemination of Muslim curricular resources faces today. I make a case for developing Muslim Children’s Literature to combat the challenges of having limited repertoire to engage with Muslim students in public schools and teacher candidates in teacher development programs. With the description of the necessity of such a literature, this article outlines characteristics of the proposed genre of Muslim Children’s Literature, as well as the unique position of a Muslim child in the current educational scenarios. A brief peek into select fiction on Muslim themes available in English internationally that can be used as curricular resources at elementary and secondary level serves towards reinforcing the definition of Muslim Children’s Literature. Further, these offer a sample that may be promoted under the proposed genre of Muslim Children’s Literature.

scholarly journals INTELEKTUAL ARENA PADA KKPK NEW BESTIES KARYA ORYZA SATIVA APRIYANI

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Rizky Dian Merpati
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Developmental Age ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
At Home

Children's literature can be said that a literary work isinnya appropriate language and developmental age and the child's life, both written by authors who are already adults, adolescents or children themselves. The literary work is not only in the form of poetry and prose, but also the form of drama. This study examines the intellectual arena in the novel "New Besties work Oryza Sativa Apriyani". Data obtained by the intellectual arena in school and at home experienced by Dhilla figures. This study uses a sociological approach. This type of research is qualitative descriptive study. The technique used to collect data that is read engineering and technical notes.

scholarly journals Children's Literature as a Learning Media in Improving Social Souls in Children

Educatio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Nofita Sari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The Troublemaker novel which is included in the work of the children's satra gives an overview of the lives of children. The lives of children who at this time have been lost because of technological advances. The Troublemaker novel comes with a moral message about the importance of socializing and introducing children's world lives. Where the world of children is a world of play and be happy with their environment. The Troublemaker novel tells the story of a child who is from Australia and lives in the Pelikan Complex. With the arrival of a child who came from Australia, it made the pelicans have a different life than before. The results showed that the moral message contained in the troublemaker novel is moral about human relations with other humans in the social environment in the form of mutual respect, please help and care for one another. In today's life, through the moral message conveyed in the troublemaker novel is a moral that has been lost on children today. The figure of the main character named Luna can give a picture of the lives of children before getting to know technology. Where children today are more fond of playing mobile phones or the like than playing together with relatives.

scholarly journals The Children of the Empire

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
György Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Strong Linkage ◽  
Parental Neglect ◽  
Political Hierarchy ◽  
The Secret Garden

"It is the child no one ever saw!" exclaims a British officer when he finds in a cholera-ridden Indian compound Mary Lennox, the heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden. These words refer to the actual character of Mary as much as the socio-political hierarchy of British imperialism. The little girl leads a life devoid of love, caring and sharing, while the Empire she lives in is ailed by the same malady: the cholera killing her parents stems from a blind authoritarian colonialism Mary must leave in order to have a chance for recovery. "She only knew that people were ill," and readers know little more when this one-sentence thesis is given to them at the outset of a novel which aims to investigate the cure of Mary's illness and in the course of doing so possibly uncovers the root causes. This paper shows that while Frances Hodgson Burnett's work may be considered a piece of children's literature because it places in the centre the healing process of children from parental neglect, its strong linkage of this theme with images of the colonial socio-political hierarchy and master-servant relationships also makes it more than a harmless bedside reading. The Secret Garden's question of whether Mary Lennox and Colin Craven can be cured of their illness can by implication be extended to a literary understanding of contemporary British society, and the novel can thus be interpreted not only as a creed of Rousseauistic pedagogy but also as a critique of the psychology, society and politics of British imperialism.

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