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1 y separately published work icon Australian Literature for Young People Rosemary Ross Johnston , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press (Melbourne) , 2017 10251347 2017 single work criticism

'We are living in a time of radical change, and ideas about teaching and learning are changing too: what knowledge do students need now and in the future, and how can we nourish this? By encouraging a broader and deeper knowledge of this country, its history, people, art and literature, Australian Literature for Young People not only familiarises readers with landmarks in Australian literature but addresses key contemporary concerns such as the need to be creative and imaginative, to think across disciplines, and to communicate and collaborate. Primary and secondary teachers, parents and pre-service education students will be inspired to explore Australia’s distinctive literary heritage for themselves, and to embrace their very significant role in encouraging children in reading. Research discussed in this book shows that reading is important not only as the key to education but as part of health and wellbeing. Growing understandings of the structures and aesthetics of literature and deeper engagement with its rich ideas help young people become true global citizens.Key features:A comprehensive, research-based approach drawing on contemporary sources.Engages with Australia’s Indigenous heritage throughout, noting the contribution it makes and should make across the educational spectrum.Makes reference to Western literary heritages and to those of other Asia-Pacific countries.‘Muse points’ promote creativity and imagination by asking readers to engage with chapter content – and beyond.Poetics chapter explores the characteristics of Australian literature.Appropriate for senior school students, including those undertaking the International Baccalaureate.'  (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War Lissa Paul (editor), Rosemary Ross Johnston (editor), Emma Short (editor), New York (City) : Routledge , 2015 15380074 2015 selected work criticism

'Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North America, and the Global South during the First World War and surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children’s Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available archival resources (including letters written by children), the contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were transformed into socially responsible children actively committing themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural connections across what had been perceived as ‘enemy’ lines, perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian children’s literature and culture are situated so that they work in conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the impact of war on the lives of children.' (Publication summary)

1 Australian and Wartime Chorography : Showing and Telling the Story of Home Rosemary Ross Johnston , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War 2015; (p. 139-161)

'This chapter explores some of the ways in which the literary arts of poetry and novels, especially those for children and young people, and the visual arts of paintings and posters, often depicting children, were used in Australia during the First World War to show and tell not only the idea of war to those at home, but the idea of home for those at war. It is part of wartime rhetoric to set personal identity and home place as core (as something worth fighting for), but simultaneously to indent that core with qualities and places beyond the personal and the personally experienced: thus not just my home, my
family, my community, but our family, our community, our nation. This concept of home becomes imbued with symbols that both represent and unite and that establish a semiotics of home that includes both abstractions – a deep inner sense of shared cause alongside like-minded companions, and the materiality of physical space. This physical space expands into the metaphysical, into not just images of home and place and landscape, but potent metonymous and synechdocal imageries of home and place and landscapes.'

Source: introduction.

1 History, Nation and My Place Rosemary Ross Johnston , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: CREArTA : Journal of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts , vol. 6 no. 2006; (p. 5-12)
1 Carnivals, the Carnivalesque, The Magic Puddin', and David Almond's Wild Girl, Wild Boy: Toward a Theorizing of Children's Plays Rosemary Ross Johnston , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , June vol. 34 no. 2 2003; (p. 131-146)
This article seeks to extend current children's literature criticism into children's plays and children's theatre. The article uses Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding as a prose introduction to an idea of a theatrical carnivalesque.
1 Summer Holidays and Landscapes of Fear : Toward a Comparative Study of 'Mainstream' Canadian and Australian Children's Novels Rosemary Ross Johnston , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canadian Children's Literature , Spring-Summer vol. 109-110 no. 2003; (p. 87-104)
Author's abstract: 'This paper considers Australian children's literature against the list of shared characteristics of 'mainstream' Canadian children's novels, with particular reference to ideas about fear and about national contexts of fear ... It discusses the Tomorrow, When the War Began series by John Marsden as one way of reading Australian national fears and concerns relating to geography and history and of interrogating the nature of fear and the problematical nature of human response to it. It concludes by arguing for a new cultural focus, past assimilation, past multiculturalism, past guilt, and past blame, one that emphasizes a sense of being 'different-but-similar', of oneness within difference.'
1 The Sense of 'Before-Us' : Landscape and the Making of Mindscapes in Recent Australian Children's Books Rosemary Ross Johnston , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canadian Children's Literature , Winter vol. 27 no. 4 (104) 2001; (p. 26-46)
1 y separately published work icon CREArTA : Journal of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts Rosemary Ross Johnston (editor), Lindfield : University of Technology, Sydney , 2001- Z947392 2001- periodical (2 issues)
1 Children's Literature Advancing Australia Rosemary Ross Johnston , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 37 no. 1 1999; (p. 13-18)
Johnston examines the notion of 'home' and national identity in Australian children's literature, particularly in relation to contemporary picture books and the need to represent the citizenship and multiple identities of a multicultural society.
1 The Special Magic of the Eighties : Shaping Words and Shape-Shifting Words Rosemary Ross Johnston , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , December vol. 26 no. 4 1995; (p. 211-217)
The author discusses the power of words to create 'a special magic' in texts published in the eighties.
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