As we read some classes ago, Corbally sustains that “children’s literature is didactic (teaches/preaches); even the best of children’s literature is didactic.”
So, if we agree books for children are supposed to ‘teach’, what do you think they should teach? Or, the other way round: what do you think they should not teach? What topics are proper or improper for children’s literature to deal with?
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7 comments:
I think any topic can be dealt with in children literature. Of course everything should be adapted to match their cognitive state and to be easy for them to read. I believe that important topics such as drugs abbuse should be presented to adolescents for them to know what they are likely to face when they grow up.
I partly agree with mariana's opinion, but I still consider that there are topics which are very difficult for children's understandidg. In the case of adolescents I think it is a good way to show them things as really are.
Hi, I agree with Mariana in that important societal issues such as drugs abuse should be analysed in class and likewise adapted to the adolescent student's knowledge scheme. Undoubtedly, drugs abuse is depicting a landscape of desolation for the existing generations and the future ones, so dealing with this topic in class is by no means an incorrect idea. On the contrary, the knowledge provided by and discussed in classrooms could be avilable for the student to sort out the different inconvenients that life presents related with drugs. Even more, it will develop in them the necessary common sense to distinguishing the rightness from the badness.
Well, I think that children's literature have something to teach, either values or language items or whatever, because most of the children are still discovering the features of the real world. And I personally think that they should dealt with things that they can understand, as Mariana said with their cognitive state. Teaching is a process from simpler things to more complex ones so the literature should follow the same idea.
Last year, for instance, the topic of homosexuality in children's literature prompted a rather heated debate. What about controversial issues like that one? Do you think literature for children should deal with them?
I think that the stages have to be respected.A controversial issue like homosexuality should be a topic to start dealing with pre-adolescents and not with children.Children´s literature should follow those topic connected with the age of the readers and I do not think these kind of topics are useful and understandable for them.
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