This volume of critical essays explores global children's literary traditions and not just how non-US-centered children's literature is taught within college courses, but how it can be used to frame undergraduate pedagogy outside of the classroom.

Global Children's Literature in the College Classroom explores the importance of children's literature as a pedagogical resource in any college course. It can be used to introduce a complex topic, give students a glimpse into a specific culture, or expand the way students think about education and teaching. Global children's literature is particularly useful in language classrooms, education programs, and classes that discuss globalism and colonialism. This book includes fifteen essays (representing fifteen countries and eight languages) divided into four sections. The first section of essays, "Across the University," looks at children's literature in non-traditional settings including British literature and multicultural studies, which considers what children's literature specifically brings to these courses. The second section, "Borders and Crossings," examines how children's literature defines or defies political and cultural separations. The third section, "Childhood Studies and Education," considers the importance of global children's literature in education classrooms as a way of promoting diversity and inclusion. The fourth section, "Non-English Texts and Texts in Translation," focuses on the use of children's literature to teach language and folklore traditions in France, Russia, and Italy. The essay that closes this section discusses using children's literature to teach translation skills at the University of Taipei.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Children’s Literature as Serious Reading, Sara Austin and Tanja Nathanael

Section 1: Across the University

Chapter One: Starting a Conversation on Integrating Filipino Children’s Literature in Teaching University Courses, Danilo M. Baylen and Johann Frederick A. Cabbab

Chapter Two: Children’s Literature and Literary Analysis in the College Classroom: Evidence from Actual Classroom Practice in Turkey, Yasemin Yılmaz Yüksek

Chapter Three: “And Stole Our Children”: Anti-Colonial Picturebook Discourses in the Critical Ethnic Studies Classroom, Sara Austin

Chapter Four: “Hurricane Hits England”: Teaching Caribbean Poetry for Younger Readers to Undergraduate Students in

British Literature, Stephen Dudas

Section II: Borders and Crossings

Chapter Five: Arbitrary Boundaries: Mapping Pausewang’s Traitor with Undergraduates Studying Children’s Literature, Tanja Nathanael

Chapter Six: International Texts on the Border: Broadening Worlds, Inspiring Reading, Audrey Isabel Taylor

Chapter Seven: “Vessels of Hope, Healing, and Social Change”: Connecting Preservice Teachers to the World through Global Literature, Mary Napoli and Deanna Day

Section III: Childhood Studies and Education

Chapter Eight: On the Shores of Story Cove: Transnational Encounters in Children’s Literature, Emily Murphy

Chapter Nine: The Trope of Disability in Fiction for Children as a Model for Teaching Children’s Literature, Jean Webb

Chapter Ten: It’s a Rainbow World, Debalina Banerjee

Chapter Eleven: Authors of Color Reclaiming Black Bodies in Dutch Children’s Literature: A Culturally-Critical Analysis, Sara Van den Bossche

Section IV: Non-English Texts and Texts in Translation

Chapter Twelve: Monsters and Monstrosity in French and Francophone Fairy Tales and Folktales, Christa Catherine Jones

Chapter Thirteen: Teaching Russian Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Feminine Agency in a Combined Literature and Russian Culture Course, Erika Haber

Chapter Fourteen: Dead Cats and Doomsday Crickets: Italian Children’s Literature and Childhood, Maria Truglio

Chapter Fifteen: Teaching Translation of Children’s Literature in a Master’s Program of the Department of English Instruction, Hung-Shu Chen

Conclusion: The Search for Global Children’s Literature: Challenges and Resources, Sara Austin and Tanja Nathanael

About the Contributors

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