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Potent fictions : children's literacy and the challenge of popular culture
- Title
- Potent fictions : children's literacy and the challenge of popular culture / edited by Mary Hilton.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LB1576 .P677 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hilton, Mary, 1946-
- Description
- xi, 196 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- This book discusses how teachers can allow popular culture to take a place alongside more crafted literature, which will enable children to develop literacy in its widest and most empowering sense.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the children of this world / Mary Hilton -- 1. Manufacturing make-believe: notes on the toy and media industry for children / Mary Hilton -- 2. Reality in boxes: children's perception of television narratives / David Whitley -- 3. 'Did you know that there's no such thing as Never Land?': working with video narratives in the early years / Helen Bromley -- 4. 'But they're pink!' -- 'Who cares!': popular culture in the primary years / Cathy Pompe -- 5. 'I don't know where I am with myself': the later years of childhood -- constructions of femininity / Gill Venn -- 6. 'You see all blood come out': popular culture and how boys become men / Isobel Urquhart -- Epilogue / Mary Hilton.
- ISBN
- 0415135303
- 9780415135306
- LCCN
- 95025983
- OCLC
- ocm33403994
- 33403994
- SCSB-8901494
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library