scholarly journals 17th IBBY Congress, Prague 1980

1970 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
World War ◽  
International Understanding

The International Board on Books for Young people", (IBBY), was founded in 1951, thanks to the efforts made by Jella Lepman, a British social worker who worked in Germany in the aftermath of World War II and there developed the idea that children's books could serve as a foundation for international understanding

scholarly journals “Bestimmt wird alles gut”: Journeys and Arrivals in Contemporary German Children’s Books

2021 ◽  
pp. 357-373
Author(s):  
Anneli Fjordevik
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
World War ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
The Right

In the last few years, many people from war-torn countries have left home to seek safety in distant countries. Refugees have come to Europe to an extent that has not been seen since World War II. It is estimated that around 50% of the refugees are children under eighteen and many of them have ended up in Germany. The fact that many people leave their homes and become foreigners in new countries is also noticeable in literature. In recent years, an increasing number of books on this topic have been published, not least children’s books. This chapter considers how escape from war and the arrival situation are depicted in eight picture books published 2016-2017 in German. My focus is on whether the fact that the families have to escape to a foreign country is problematised in any way: How do the children (and their families) in the books deal with the new language and with communication? Are there any difficulties concerning identity and “otherness”? What expectations/reflections (such as whether or not they made the right decision) on the new life – if any – are being related? How does the stress affect them and their families? And do the stories about leaving home and arriving in a foreign place have entirely happy endings?

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Lekan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young People ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Television Program ◽  
World War ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wildlife Control ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Independence Era

This chapter introduces readers to Bernhard Grzimek, the “animal whisperer” who created Germany’s longest-running television program (A Place for Animals, 1956–1987), won an Academy Award for his documentary film Serengeti Shall Not Die, and sensitized a generation of young people to the power of ecological lobbying. Having rebuilt the Frankfurt Zoo and saving its remaining animals from the rubble of World War II, Grzimek transferred the idea of a permanent sanctuary for animals and from human violence to the Serengeti, the site of the earth’s last great animal migrations. It then examines the core chapters’ theme: the mismatch between this conservation quest and land rights struggles during the independence era. Grzimek raised funds, brokered diplomatic favors, and promised thousands of animal-loving tourists to save this “gigantic zoo” from human encroachment. A grand mission to be sure—but one that feared Africans’ own ideas about wildlife control and sidestepped their aspirations for environmental sovereignty.

A Progressive Social Worker Looks at World War II

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Leslie Leighninger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
World War

‘Operation Pied Piper’: A Psychoanalytic Narrative of Authority in a Time of War

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Lisa Farley
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
World War ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Mind ◽  
British Children

The evacuation of British children during World War II is read alongside the legend of the ‘Pied Piper’ after which the mass migration was officially named. While virtually every British account of World War II makes mention of the evacuation, most are silent on the question of its ominous title: ‘Operation Pied Piper’. This paper traces the legend's key theme – on influencing and being influenced – as it surfaces in the writing of one child analyst and one social worker charged with the responsibility of leading a family of five hostels for British youth. At a time when Hitler's deadly regime reached unprecedented heights across the Channel, the legend of the ‘Pied Piper’ becomes a highly suggestive metaphor for thinking about D. W. Winnicott and Clare Britton's writing on what authority could mean in the face of leadership gone terribly wrong. Quite another, profoundly intimate loss of leadership haunts their words as well: Sigmund Freud, in exile from Hitler's Europe and leader of the psychoanalytic movement, died in London just weeks after the first wave of Blitz evacuations. It is in this context that Winnicott and Britton articulated a theory of authority that could address the losses of history without at the same time demanding the loss of the mind.

scholarly journals ANDEN VERDENSKRIG FORTALT FOR BØRN OG UNGE - HISTORIEFORTOLKNINGER I NYERE DANSK BØRNELITTERATUR

1970 ◽  
Vol 42 (117) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
World War ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Time Gap ◽  
Second World

SECOND WORLD WAR NARRATED FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNGSTERS. INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY IN NEW DANISH LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN | Children’s books about the Second World War have been written and published ever since it ended. One would perhaps imagine that the ever-increasing distance from it would mean a waning interest, but that does not seem to be the case. Over the last few years, a whole range of remarkable children’s books have appeared in Denmark. New things can still be written about this period, and the time gap can be said to have had the effect of freeing up material. This should not be taken as meaning that newer books are less reliable, historically speaking, but rather that they present the period in a new light. In this article a number of recent Danish novels will be discussed with respect to how they deal with history. It is not the intention to try to make non-fiction out of historical novels for children, which would mean reading the books in a manner which was at variance with the genre they belong to, but one of the premises of the article is that the historical novel is to be understood as a form of discourse lying somewhere between history and pure fiction. The historical novel is seen as a piece of fiction presenting one or several interpretations of a given period of history by setting its story in a particular context.

Youth at War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young People ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
Youth Leaders

World War II was the ultimate test of Soviet youth culture. The USSR’s heavy reliance on youth in the pre-war period increased as Stalin’s regime drafted youth into the army, in factories and as keepers of order on the home front. Soviet practices of mobilization and coercion developed during the interwar period continued and intensified during the war. As victory appeared imminent, youth leaders pondered how wartime brutalization and the compromises young people had made under occupation had changed the requirements of official youth culture. The victory reinforced the righteousness of pre-war practices as the correct way to raise youth under socialism.

Llanes Escoda, Josefa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Ealdama
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
World War ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

Josefa Llanes Escoda (1898–1945) was one of the early social workers in the Philippines. As a social worker she moved from the residual approach and initiated sustainable welfare programs. She was also an advocate for decent work for women. She was able to merge her role as a social worker and as a suffragist by mobilizing members of the National Federation of Women’s Club (NFWC) of the Philippines to educate women on the importance of the right to vote. During World War II, when the social welfare system was in disarray, she mobilized members of the NFWC to feed prisoners of war and other displaced persons. In her own way, she was a freedom fighter.

The End of Pax Americana

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Sakai
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Intellectual Influence ◽  
Political Economic

In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decentering of European and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual influence. This decentering is symbolized by the sense of the loss of old colonial empires such as those of Japan, Britain, and the United States.

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