Educational Theory in British Children's Literary Classics

Teaching and Learning Down the Rabbit Hole

Thomas Albritton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

154 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1631-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on over thirty years of teaching children's literature and education, including special topics courses on pedagogical imagery in popular media, the author has drawn those two enterprises together to apply an educational perspective to several giants in the canon of children's literature. Albritton finds and explores images of teaching and learning in Lewis Carroll's two Alice novels, a selection of tales by Beatrix Potter, both play and novel versions of Peter Pan, Kenneth Grahamme’s The Wind in the Willows, selected stories featuring Winnie-the-Pooh, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Hobbit, and the first three of J.K. Rowling's novels featuring the young wizard in training, Harry Potter. Through these works, the author finds traces of Plato, Rousseau, Dewey, and Vygotsky, portrayals of growth mindset and high stakes testing, and evidence of the pedagogical power of inquiry, teacher personality, and project-based learning. Albritton's intention is to give equal play to each analytical focus, resulting in a richer appreciation for the literature and a deeper understanding of the theory.

Thomas Albritton is associate professor of English education at High Point University.

Foreword by the Series Editors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Learning Down the Rabbit Hole: Lewis Carroll’s Alice Novels as Case Studies of Human Development

Chapter 2: Beatrix Potter as a Champion of Progressive Education

Chapter 3: The Neverland Academy: Formal Schooling vs. Natural Learning in Peter Pan

Chapter 4: The Wind in the Willows and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”

Chapter 5: A Bear of Very Little Brain: Winnie-the-Pooh and Growth Mindset

Chapter 6: Always Winter, But Never Christmas: Narnia and High Stakes Testing

Chapter 7: How Bilbo Learns: Environmental Inquiry and Reflective Practice in The Hobbit

Chapter 8: How Hogwarts Teaches: Identity, Personality, and Instruction

Epilogue: Lessons in Literature: What Readers See Through the Lens of Education

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Education and Popular Culture
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 228 mm
Gewicht	413 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-7936-1631-0 / 1793616310
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-1631-9 / 9781793616319
Zustand	Neuware