AustLit
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Description
Literature created and/or marketed for readers aged 12 to 20 is a valuable resource for teachers and their students. This unit explores the range of such materials available while addressing questions about literariness, appeal, and the changing role and format of books in learning environments dominated by electronic media. The strategies for using imaginative literature across the curriculum are also given key consideration.
Aim
This unit aims to assist you in your on-going development as:
An effective communicator with an enhanced knowledge of the diverse field of adolescent literature;
A learner who is aware of issues of inclusiveness, difference and intercultural understandings as they are articulated through literature written for young people;
A reflective practitioner who is open to the challenges that literature offers in viewing the world from different perspectives, and who is committed to developing creative and challenging learning experiences using adolescent literature.
Assessment
Critical essay; portfolio.
Supplementary Texts
Bradford, C. (2001). Reading race: Aboriginality in Australian children?s literature. Carlton South, VIC: Melbourne University Press.
Bull, G., & Anstey, M. (Eds). (2002). Crossing the boundaries. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia.
Mallan, K. (1999). In the picture: Perspectives on picturebook art and artists. Wagga Wagga, NSW: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University..
Mallan, K., & Pearce, S. (Eds). (2003). Youth cultures: Texts, images, and identities. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger.
Stahl, J.D., Hanlon, T.L. & Keyser, E.L. (2007). Crosscurrents of children?s literature: An anthology of texts and criticism. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stephens, J. (Ed.). (2002). Ways of being male: Representing masculinities in children?s literature and film. London: Routledge.
Other Details
No set texts for this course.
Offered in:
2011, 2009
Current Campus:
Internet and Kelvin Grove
Levels:
Undergraduate
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