LIBM 4023, Literature for Children, Russell, D.

Chapter 1

THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Part One

THE CLASSICAL WORLD - Roman, Greeks

MIDDLE AGES - Christianity

EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE - Moveable type

1. Technical and Social Changes

2. Puritanism

3. John Locke

4. Bunyan, Defoe, Swift

THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES

1. John Newbery

2. Rousseau

3. The Rise of Folktales

THE VICTORIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE

1. British Children’s Literature

2. The United States

3. Children’s Book Illustration in the Golden Age

4. Popular Literature - Great Britain and America

BETWEEN THE WARS 1920-1940

FROM WWII TO PRESENT: A SECOND GOLDEN AGE?

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FROM AROUND THE WORLD

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Chapter 2

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LITERATURE

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

MODERN THEORIES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT

1. Piaget’s Cognitive Theory of Development

Sensorimotor Period

Preoperational Period

Period of Concrete Operations

Period of Formal Operations

2. Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory

Trust Versus Mistrust

Autonomy Versus Doubt

Initiative Versus Guilt

Industry Versus Inferiority

Identity Versus Role Confusion

3. Kohlberg’s Theory of the Development of Moral judgment

The Preconventional Level

Conventional Level

Postconventional Level

THE USES OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

LIBM 4023, Literature for Children, Russell, D.

Chapter 3

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

AFRICAN AMERICANS

NATIVE AMERICANS

HISPANIC AMERICANS

ASIAN AMERICANS

WORLDWIDE CULTURES

SOCIAL DIVERSITY

GENDER AWARENESS

Gender-Biased Language

Gender Roles

Gender Behavior

ALTERNATIVE FAMILIES AND LIFESTYLES AND FAMILY PROBLEMS

THE PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGED

OTHER ISSUES

LIBM 4023, Literature for Children, Russell, D.

Chapter 4

THE STUDY OF LITERATURE

THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

CHARACTERS

SETTING

POINT OF VIEW

PLOT

CONFLICT

THEME

STYLE

TONE

LITERARY CRITICISM

FORMALIST AND NEW CRITICISM

ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM

HISTORICAL CRITICISM

PSYCHOANALYTICAL CRITICISM

FEMINIST CRITICISM

READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM



LIBM 4023, Literature for Children, Russell, D.

Chapter 5

RESPONDING TO LITERATURE

LITERATURE-BASED LEARNING

THE READER-CENTERED APPROACH TO LITERATURE

READING ALOUD

STORYTELLING

BOOK DISCUSSIONS

WRITING EXPERIENCES

Webbing and Mapping

Response Journals

Book Reports

Creating Books

DRAMATIC RESPONSES TO LITERATURE

Oral Interpretation

Story Theater

Reader’s Theater

Creative Dramatics

Role-Playing

Puppet Theater

ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO LITERATURE

The Graphic Arts

The plastic Arts

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND FILM

CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND THE CENSOR

LIBM 4023, Literature for Children, Russell, D.

Chapter 6

BOOKS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

MOTHER GOOSE BOOKS

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

AESTHETIC DEVELOPMENT

SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

CHOOSING MOTHER GOOSE BOOKS

ILLUSTRATORS OF MOTHER GOOSE

WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS

TOY BOOKS

ALPHABET BOOKS

CONTENT OF ALPHABET BOOKS

DESIGN OF ALPHABET BOOKS

COUNTING BOOKS

CONTENT OF COUNTING BOOKS

DESIGN OF COUNTING BOOKS

CONCEPT BOOKS

EASY TO READ BOOKS