Meaning Making With Picture Books

World War I and Other Contested Spaces
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-032-00320-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Education, Culture, and Politics in Children’s Picture Books

This book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape collective memory and historical understanding with an initial focus on World War I before expanding to include more current contested issues topics such as colonialism, immigration, and First Nations’ experiences.

Organized into three sections, the book discusses the role of picture books in teaching difficult histories, analyses postmodern picture books addressing controversial topics, and provides a framework for classroom pedagogy. This approach highlights the importance of empathy, ethics, and creative expression in history education, showcasing how storytelling through multimodal texts bridges the past to the present.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharp, Heather

Donnelly, Debra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Vorschul- und Kindergartenpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. History as a literary endeavour.- Chapter 2. Bricolage as a text analysis tool.- Chapter 3. Poetry, prose, and images in picture books.- Chapter 4. Theoretical lens for analysing representations of conflict and trauma.- Chapter 5. War and conflict in postmodern texts.- Chapter 6. Theory and practice.- Chapter 7. Historical representations as memorable and engaging experiences.

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Sharp  is Associate Professor of History curriculum at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her current research investigates the teaching of difficult and controversial pasts, the influence of public history in teaching, and historical representations in school curriculum, particularly textbooks, and also examines the written and visual texts in picture books that deal with conflict.

Debra Donnelly is an Associate Professor of History curriculum at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Debra’s research interests centre on the role of the visual and media in the development of historical and global consciousness. Her research explores, and seeks to clarify, the relationship between public pedagogies, conceptual frameworks of historical understanding and problematic knowledge, and multi-modality in historical representation.