1st Edition
Potent Fictions Children's Literacy and the Challenge of Popular Culture
Edited By Mary Hilton
Copyright 1996
208 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Today's children spend more time than ever before watching television, playing computer games and reading comic and pulp fiction. Many of these are directly designed by the toy and media industry. Are children therefore simply being manipulated? There is widespread concern that because of these kinds of popular fiction, children do not read `quality' literature, resulting in lower standards of... Read more
Introduction, Mary Hilton; Part 1 Ways of looking; Chapter 1 Manufacturing make-believe, Mary Hilton; Chapter 2 Reality in boxes, David Whitley; Part 2 Ways of working; Chapter 3 ‘Did you know that there’s no Such thing as Never Land?’, Helen Bromley; Chapter 4 ‘But they’re pink!’ – ‘Who cares!’, Cathy Pompe; Part 3 Ways of helping; Chapter 5 ‘I Don’t Know Where I am with myself’, Gill Venn; Chapter 6 ‘You See all Blood Come Out’, Isobel Urquhart*; Epilogue, Mary Hilton;
Biography
Mary Hilton
'A text which ought to be on every teacher's and student teacher's reading list.' - Child Language and Teaching Therapy
