abstract: Gendered language has been a topic of study for centuries. The most recent efforts to promote inclusive language have been championed by parents, teachers, and social reformers over the last thirty years. Replicating in part a research study that was done over thirty years ago, this study examines what effects have taken place in children's perceptions of male and female roles in regards to specific activities and occupations and how their perceptions compare to the current work force, what role children's literature has played in these changes, and what children's natural speech in describing personified animals can tell us about their subconscious gender labeling. The results were remarkable in two ways: native language evidently exudes little emphasis on pronoun choice, and children are more readily acceptable of gender equality than that portrayed in either Caldecott winning children's books or real life as seen through current labor statistics. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2011

A presente dissertação visa a analisar a forma como a temática da morte é abordada na produção para crianças e jovens; para tanto nosso trabalho se propõe à leitura de duas obras de campos narrativos diversos: um livro e um filme. Para realizar esse exercício, tomamos por fundamentos instrumentais dos Estudos Comparados de Literatura, perspectiva interdisciplinar que opera com a comparação e com os diálogos que podem ser estabelecidos entre diferentes literaturas, literaturas e outras artes e literatura e outros saberes. Serão utilizadas as relações estabelecidas entre literatura e outras artes, como o cinema, para focalizar como a morte vem sendo tratada na narrativa literária e fílmica. Assim, partiremos do conceito de literatura comparada, intertextualidade e dialogismo, fundamentais para estabelecer relações comparativas entre ambas as narrativas, demonstrando como os recursos próprios do cinema, bem como sua inter-relação de códigos e linguagens, concorrem para a construção de sentidos. O tema revelou-se interessante para o trabalho de pesquisa, tendo em vista que a morte é um ingrediente da vida humana, por isso, a escolha do corpus promoveu a divisão do estudo em dois momentos: a apresentação da morte na cultura ocidental e a representação da morte nas narrativas literária e fílmica para crianças e jovens. O corpus da pesquisa é composto pelas obras De morte! Um conto pagão do folclore cristão (1992), livro infantil escrito por Angela Lago e, A noiva cadáver (2005), filme produzido por Tim Burton. / This thesis aims to analyze how the theme of death is addressed in production for children and youth; for both our work proposes the reading of two works from different narrative fields: a book and a movie. To perform this exercise, we take for instrumental foundations of Literature Comparative Studies, interdisciplinary perspective that operates the comparison and dialogue that can be established between different literatures, literature and other arts and literature and other knowledge. The relationships established will be used between literature and other arts, such as cinema, to focus as death is being treated in literary and filmic narrative. So start from the concept of literature compared, intertextuality and dialogism, fundamental to establish comparative relations between the two narratives, demonstrating how the film\'s own resources as well as their interrelationship codes and languages, contribute to the construction of meaning. The theme has proved useful for research work, given that death is an ingredient of human life, so the corpus of choice promoted the study of the division into two phases: the presentation of death in Western culture and the representation of death in literary and filmic narratives for children and youth. The corpus of the research is composed of works from death! A pagan tale of Christian folklore (1992), children\'s book written by Angela Lago and The Corpse Bride (2005), a film produced by Tim Burton.

Orientador: Dagoberto Buim Arena / Banca: Elieuza Aparecida de Lima / Banca: Renata Junqueira de Souza / Resumo: Esta dissertação investiga o comportamento de leitor literário com o uso do tablete em bibliotecas virtuais de três alunos do 4º ano do Ciclo I do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública da rede estadual. Pretende-se também mapear o percurso da pesquisadora no uso dos suportes sociais de leitura em situações que se constituem como linguagem. As questões que nortearam a pesquisa em busca da possibilidade do uso do e-book na escola são as seguintes: É possível à escola apropriar-se do uso do tablete para leitura literária na escola? Quais os percursos a serem trilhados pelo aluno e pelo professor? Os referenciais teóricos da pesquisa foram autores como Levy Vygotski, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jean Foucambert, Dagoberto Arena e Élie Bajard. A investigação teve como metodologia a pesquisa-ação, com uso de registros sistemáticos de observação dos sujeitos-crianças, por imagens e voz, e entrevista. A pesquisadora exerceu duplo papel, a de pesquisadora e mediadora. Ao investigar e mapear os caminhos percorridos pelas crianças na construção de sua própria biblioteca digital virtual observou-se também o próprio caminho da pesquisadora-mediadora na organização dos procedimentos para o ensino do ato de ler. Os dados foram produzidos, sistematizados e analisados por núcleos temáticos na tentativa de compreender o comportamento do leitor de texto literário digital nas bibliotecas virtuais, e as possibilidades de uso pelas crianças de e-books de literatura infantil no cotidiano da sala de aula como práticas sociais. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam ser possível o uso do tablete para a criança organizar uma biblioteca digital virtual e realizar a leitura de obras digitais que levem à construção da apreciação literária pelos alunos, bem como de maior autonomia na busca de textos. Consideramos também que a ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present dissertation investigates the literary reader behaviour using tablet in virtual libraries of three students from the fourth year of the first cycle at a public state elementary school. The aim is also mapping the researcher's route in the use of the social supports reading at situations that it is given as language. The questions that guided this research looking for the possibility of using ebooks in schools are the followings: Is it possible for the school to appropriate the tablet usage to literary reading in school? What are the routes to be followed by the student and the teacher? The theoretical references of this research were authors such as Vygotski, Bakhtin, Foucambert, Arena and Bajard. The investigation's methodology was the research-action, using systematic observation records of the subjects-children, images and voice, and interview. The researcher exercised double role, as researcher and mediator. By investigating and mapping the paths taken by children in building their own virtual digital library, it was also observed the own way of organization of the researcher-mediator in the procedures for teaching the reading act. The data was produced, organized and analysed by thematic groups in an attempt of understanding the digital literary text reader's behaviour in virtual libraries, and the possibilities of use by children of e-books of children's literature in the classroom's everyday as social practices. The research results confirm the usefulness of tablet usage for the child organize a virtual digital library and perform the reading of digital works that lead to the construction of literary appreciation by students, as well as greater autonomy in search of texts. The otherness was also considered as playing an essential role in the construction of an environment which favours the expansion of culture and contributes, with the reading act, for the emancipation of students. / Mestre

As a teacher, I will come in contact with different students with different prior knowledge and experience. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate how the grief after losing a parent is made out in four children's books, and to compare how or when these depictions correspond to the research on child grief management and processing. This to see how it can be used in my future profession. The theoretical starting points were Vygotsky's theories of learning as well as previous research in the topics of grief management in children and children's literature on the subject of death. The method used for this study was a qualitative study of documents, more particularly a text analysis on four separate children's books. In the result the importance of reading with the children is discovered, but also the importance of talking with them about difficult subjects for them to grow up and being able to handle future difficulties. / Då jag ska arbeta som lärare kommer jag komma i kontakt med olika elever med olika förkunskaper och erfarenheter. Syftet med den här studien var därför att undersöka hur sorgen efter att ha förlorat en förälder framställs i fyra barnböcker samt att jämföra hur eller om dessa skildringar motsvarar forskningen om barns sorghantering och bearbetning. Detta för att se hur det kan användas i mitt framtida yrke. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna var Vygotskijs teorier om lärande samt tidigare forskning i ämnena sorghantering hos barn och barnlitteratur med tema döden. Metoden som användes till denna studie är en kvalitativ dokumentstudie, närmare bestämt en textanalys på fyra skilda barnböcker och i resultatet uppdagas vikten av att läsa med barnen men även vikten av att samtala med dem om svåra ämnen för att de ska kunna växa upp och kunna hantera svårigheter i framtiden.

Orientador: Luciana Maria Lunardi Campos / Banca: Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira / Banca: Lizete Maria Orquiza Carvalho / Banca: Cecilia Maria Aldigueri Goulart / Banca: Renato Eugenio da Silva Diniz / Resumo: Esta pesquisa objetivou investigar como a ação comunicativa é estabelecida em um processo de formação continuada, que procura reconhecer as possibilidades de uso da literatura infantil nas aulas de Ciências da Natureza, nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Esse processo de formação, realizado com professoras do Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII/UFJF, foi desenvolvido a partir da perspectiva da racionalidade comunicativa e identificou os atos interativos e atos de fala estabelecidos, retratando, como síntese, o percurso dialógico realizado. A Teoria da Ação Comunicativa de Jürgen Habermas serviu como fundamentação teórica, através da concepção de linguagem enquanto processo emancipatório, que se traduz nas diversas marcas discursivas estabelecidas em processos interativos e dialógicos. Os dados foram coletados e analisados por meio de entrevistas (inicial e final), realizadas individualmente, e a constituição de um Grupo de Formação, espaço em que as professoras procuraram, inicialmente, articular a base teórica oferecida com a prática de sala de aula, sob um olhar crítico e reflexivo. Posteriormente, elaboraram, desenvolveram e analisaram aulas de Ciências, a partir do uso da Literatura infantil, tendo a grade curricular do Colégio como norteadora do tema a ser desenvolvido. Como resultado deste trabalho, pudemos reconhecer como o professor, para se posicionar diante do assunto, estabelece interações e falas, num percurso dialógico. Percebemos, também, através do discurso das professoras, a riqueza de propostas de uso da Literatura Infantil em aulas de Ciências, desenvolvias em processos coletivos. Concluímos, ao final desta pesquisa, que ações de formação continuada dessa natureza podem contribuir para a autonomia e a emancipação do professor, a partir de análise e reconstrução crítica da prática docente / Abstract: This research has aimed to investigate how the communicative action is established in a process of continuing formation that looks foward to recognize the possibilities of using Children Literature in Natural Sciences classes in the early years of Elementary School. This formation process, realized with teachers from Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII/UFJF, was developed from the perspective of communicative rationality and identified the interactive acts and established speech acts, showing, as a synthesis of this process, the dialogical course realized. The theory of communicative action by Jürgen Habermas served as theoretical basis, through the conception of language as an emancipatory process, which is translated in different discursive marks established in interactive and dialogical processes. The data was collected and analyzed through interviews (initial and final) performed individually and the establishment of a Formation Groupl, a space where teachers sought, initiality, to articulate the theoretical basis offered to the practice in the classroom, under a critical and reflexive eye, and subsequently they developed, implemented and analyzed science lessons from the use of Children Literature, having the curriculum of the school as a guide to the theme to be developed. As a result of this work, we could recognize how the teacher, to stand on the subject matter, establishes interactions and speeches in a dialogical course. We have also found out, through the speech of teachers, the richness of the proposals to use Children literature in science classes, developed in collective process. We have concluded, by the end of this research, that continued formation actions from this nature can contribute to the teacher autonomy and emancipation from the analysis and critical reconstruction of the teaching practice / Doutor

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Adverse criticism regarding the quantity and quality of children's books in South Africa appear in such respected sources as The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and The Companion to South African English Literature, the authors of which are of the opinion that South African children are dependent solely upon Eurocentric literature for their reading material. In recent years however, local publishers have attempted to redress this imbalance by offering prizes for unpublished works. These prizes have acted as incentives for aspiring writers, many of whom have had novels published specifically for children in the post-developmental reading stage. This study critically examines some of these prizewinning works of fantasy and contemporary realism, in an effort to gauge their literary worth within the context of accepted criteria for judging children's literature. Accolades from adults are not however a guarantee that the prizewinning books will be received with equal acclaim by the children for whom they are written. For this reason, five children in the post-developmental reading stage were asked to pass their opinions and non-literary judgments on the books. Although the critical evaluation of the indigenous works proves them to be eminently worthy of the prizes which they received on publication, the children did not rate them as highly as certain imported works. The works of fantasy by Marguerite Poland rated poorly in terms of their popularity despite the fact that the children said that in a non-circumscribed context, they choose fantasy in preference to contemporary realism. Within the context of the indigenous literature which they read for this study though, they preferred the works of contemporary realism as they were able to identify with particular aspects of the novels. Indigenous literature for children in the post-developmental reading stage is a comparatively new phenomenon which needs to be nurtured if it is to attain any lasting status. The onus rests upon the teachers of literature and librarians to introduce the literature and make the books more accessible to young readers. Publishers need perhaps to engage the views and opinions of the audience for whom the books are written in an effort to publish books which, without in any way detracting from their literary worth, will deal with subjects favoured by young readers.

The very mention of the genre of the 'girls' school story' tends to provoke sniggers. Critics, teachers and librarians have combined throughout the century to attack a genre which encourages loyalty, hard work, team spirit, cleanliness and godliness. This dissertation asks why this attack took place and suggests one possible answer - the girls' school story was a radical and therefore feared genre. The thesis provides a brief history of the genre with reference to its connections with the Victorian novel and its peculiarly British status. Through examination of reading surveys, newspapers and early critical works it establishes both the popularity of the genre amongst its intended audience and the vitriolic nature of the attack against it. Biographical information about the writers of the school story begins to answer why the establishment may have been afraid of the influence of the purveyors of girls' school stories. By discussing their depiction of education, religion, women's roles and war the dissertation shows in what respects the genre can be seen as radical and shows how the increasing conventionality of the genre coincided with its decline in vigour and popularity. The influence of the oeuvre is then revealed in the discussion of its effects on adult literature.

This thesis Correspondence between word and image in Children's literature is focused on the analysis of selected titles in terms of literary and illustrative. The analysis should determine the methodological criteria in terms of aesthetic, factual and ethical contribution of the book as a whole for the pupil of the fifth and the sixth grade of primary school. The analyses are conducted in terms of literary and illustrative titles on The fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. The conclusion of the work provides educational options to work with these titles in lessons of Czech language and literature and Art.

Esta tese de doutorado, que toma como referência central as teorizações desenvolvidas no âmbito dos Estudos de Gênero e dos Estudos Culturais, busca investigar como são representadas as relações amorosas românticas presentes em textos de literatura infantil contemporâneos, editados a partir da década de 90 do século XX até o ano de 2007. Para tal análise foram selecionados dezessete livros, levando em consideração a data de publicação, autores/as e editoras variadas na tentativa de escapar das tradicionais análises dos contos clássicos já tão estudados. Ao considerar que o amor e o casamento estão sendo postos em xeque em nossa sociedade, na medida em que surgem novas configurações familiares, ou mesmo outras possibilidades de se vivenciar o sentimento amoroso, meu problema de pesquisa centra-se em discutir como a literatura infantil vem apresentando esses temas, a saber: como o amor romântico e a materialização deste sentimento, através das relações que se estabelecem a partir dele, têm sido representados nos livros de literatura infantil? De que forma as relações de gênero são veiculadas nessas obras? Como o casamento é visto na vinculação com as relações amorosas? Os resultados apontam que na maior parte das obras literárias infantis o sentimento amoroso ainda aparece associado à idéia de casamento; à mulher fica a responsabilidade da criação dos/as filhos/as; algumas histórias apresentam o amor romântico coligado à dor e à dificuldade de conquista. Também são recorrentes as características de amor à primeira vista e o empoderamento desse sentimento em transformar o outro. Três obras, das dezessete analisadas, ocupam-se em mostrar a preferência pelo estado de solteira e o divórcio como possibilidade de término de uma relação amorosa. / This doctoral thesis, which adopts as its central reference the theories developed in the field of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies seeks to investigate how romantic relationships are represented in contemporary children's literature texts, edited from the 90's decade of the 20th century until the year of 2007. To do this analysis, seventeen books have been selected, taking into account the various dates of publishing, authors and editors in an attempt to escape the traditional analysis of the already so studied classic stories. Considering that love and marriage are being jeopardized in our society, as new family patterns, or even other possibilities on how to experience love emerge, my research problem is focused on discussing how children's literature has been presenting these themes, such as: how does romantic love and the materialization of this feeling, through the relationships that are established based upon it, have been represented in children's literature books? In which way are gender relationships depicted in these books? How is marriage seen in connection with love relationships? The results show that in most of the children's literary pieces the loving feeling still shows in association with the idea of marriage; the woman is responsible for raising the children; some stories present romantic love linked with pain and the difficulty of conquest. The characteristics of love at first sight are also persistent, as is the empowerment of this feeling in order to transform the other person. Three pieces, among the seventeen that were analyzed, show the preference of the single status and the divorce as a possibility to end a romantic relationship.