Connecting Children with Classics

2018-03-14
Connecting Children with Classics

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  • Author: Meagan Lacy
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 1440844402
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 501

This guide identifies hundreds of books that can help children develop into engaged readers. Children's librarians, collection development specialists in public libraries, as well as K–8 school librarians and teachers will choose from the best in children's titles. This unique readers' advisory and collection development guide for librarians and others who work with children focuses on readers and their needs, rather than simply categorizing books by their characteristics and features as traditional literature guides do. Taking this unusual perspective brings forth powerful new tools and curricular ideas on how to promote the classics, and how to best engage with young readers and meet their personal and emotional needs to boost interest and engagement. The guide identifies seven reader-driven appeals, or themes, that are essential to successful readers' advisory: awakening new perspectives; providing models for identity; offering reassurance, comfort, strength, and confirmation of self-worth; connecting with others; giving courage to make a change; facilitating acceptance; and building a disinterested understanding of the world. By becoming aware of and tapping into these seven themes, librarians and other educators can help children more deeply connect with books, thereby increasing the odds of becoming lifelong readers. The detailed descriptions of each book provide plot summaries as well as notes on themes, subjects, reading interest levels, adaptations and alternative formats, translations, and read-alikes. This informative guide will also aid librarians in collection development and bibliotherapy services.

Connecting Kids

2009
Connecting Kids

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  • Author: Sharon Turton
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780980684209
  • Category : Child development
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 112

Through the themes of connection, love, trust, self-esteem, kindness and stillness, this book aims to help you nurture a deep connection with your children, guiding them to healthily connect to their own inner greatness and love. Isn't it true that our children are born with unlimited potential? And isn't it true that as parents we wish for them to live this to the fullest? This shining potential is always there, yet it often gets masked by painful childhood experiences that can leave children feeling insecure, scared, angry and confused, adversely shaping the rest of their lives. The interactive stories, meditations and activities in this book will help your child to express and release unhealthy blocks and limiting beliefs, and guide them manoeuvre through childhood with grace and joy and ultimately grow to their fullest potential. Illustrated by Cazzie Pitsis, the author of 'An Angel in My Heart'. Foreward by Brandon Bays.

Forward with Classics

2018-08-09
Forward with Classics

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  • Author: Arlene Holmes-Henderson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1474295967
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

Despite their removal from England's National Curriculum in 1988, and claims of elitism, Latin and Greek are increasingly re-entering the 'mainstream' educational arena. Since 2012, there have been more students in state-maintained schools in England studying classical subjects than in independent schools, and the number of schools offering Classics continues to rise in the state-maintained sector. The teaching and learning of Latin and Greek is not, however, confined to the classroom: community-based learning for adults and children is facilitated in newly established regional Classics hubs in evenings and at weekends, in universities as part of outreach, and even in parks and in prisons. This book investigates the motivations of teachers and learners behind the rise of Classics in the classroom and in communities, and explores ways in which knowledge of classical languages is considered valuable for diverse learners in the 21st century. The role of classical languages within the English educational policy landscape is examined, as new possibilities exist for introducing Latin and Greek into school curricula. The state of Classics education internationally is also investigated, with case studies presenting the status quo in policy and practice from Australasia, North America, the rest of Europe and worldwide. The priorities for the future of Classics education in these diverse locations are compared and contrasted by the editors, who conjecture what strategies are conducive to success.

Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media

2018-01-19
Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media

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  • Author: Vanessa Joosen
  • Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • ISBN: 149681519X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth Wesseling Media narratives in popular culture often assign interchangeable characteristics to childhood and old age, presuming a resemblance between children and the elderly. These designations in media can have far-reaching repercussions in shaping not only language, but also cognitive activity and behavior. The meaning attached to biological, numerical age--even the mere fact that we calculate a numerical age at all--is culturally determined, as is the way people "act their age." With populations aging all around the world, awareness of intergenerational relationships and associations surrounding old age is becoming urgent. Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media caters to this urgency and contributes to age literacy by supplying insights into the connection between childhood and senescence to show that people are aged by culture. Treating classic stories like the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales and Heidi; pop culture hits like The Simpsons and Mad Men; and international productions, such as Turkish television cartoons and South Korean films, contributors explore the recurrent idea that "children are like old people," as well as other relationships between children and elderly characters as constructed in literature and media from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. This volume deals with fiction and analyzes language as well as verbally sparse, visual productions, including children's literature, film, television, animation, and advertising.

Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction

2019-10
Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction

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  • Author: Claudia Nelson
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198846037
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.

Children and Childhood in Classical Athens

2015-06-30
Children and Childhood in Classical Athens

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  • Author: Mark Golden
  • Publisher: JHU Press
  • ISBN: 1421416875
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 505

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Golden’s groundbreaking study of childhood in ancient Greece. First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of the public and private lives of children from about 500 to 300 B.C. Golden discusses how the Athenians viewed children and childhood, describes everyday activities of children at home and in the community, and explores the differences in the social lives of boys and girls. He details the complex bonds among children, parents, siblings, and household slaves, and he shows how a growing child’s changing roles often led to conflict between the demands of family and the demands of community. In this thoroughly revised edition, Golden places particular emphasis on the problem of identifying change over time and the relationship of children to adults. He also explores three dominant topics in the recent historiography of childhood: the agency of children, the archaeology of childhood, and representations of children in art. The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources.

Many Languages, Building Connections

2012
Many Languages, Building Connections

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  • Author: Karen Nemeth
  • Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0876593899
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 130

All infants and toddlers need experiences that nurture, support, and teach their home language and culture. Language is a vital component of early experiences well before the child can say his first word. Many Languages, Building Connections outlines adaptable strategies that caregivers of children younger than the age of three need to feel confident that they know how language develops, how cultural differences can come into play, and how to assess an individual child's situation to provide appropriate support.

Women Writers of Children's Classics

2008
Women Writers of Children's Classics

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  • Author: Mary Sebag-Montefiore
  • Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
  • ISBN: 0746311575
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 153

This study explores the lives and works of four major 19th century female children's writers, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mrs Ewing and Mrs Molesworth who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood.

Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education

2022-02-22
Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education

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  • Author: Sandra Gilgan
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004511652
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education investigates the classics-reading movement in contemporary Chinese society by examining how people re-forge lost bonds with tradition in the revival of Confucian education and strive towards their ideal future, while seeking to overcome the problems of the present.

Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature

2003
Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature

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  • Author: Mary Ebbott
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 9780739105382
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 142

In Imagining Illegitimacy, Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child (nothos) is imagined in narratives. By analyzing the imagery connected to illegitimate persons, Ebbott arrives at deep insights on how legitimacy and illegitimacy in Greek culture were deeply connected to the concepts of family, procreation, and citizenry, and how these connections influenced cultural imperatives of determining and controlling legitimacy.