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This article argues that Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials may be read as a series which attempts to assault the Christian doctrine of God. We believe that this demonstrably accords with Pullman’s personal views, and that, through his story, he seeks to foster such views in his readership. However, the accuracy of his attack falls short of its intended mark when it is examined alongside classical Christian theology. The Authority which Pullman’s narrative destroys is actually more akin to the Christian view of the devil than he is the divine, and the victories of Will and Lyra—as a new Adam and Eve—have strong resemblances to the victories which Christianity claims for Christ and Mary. Pullman’s narrative, therefore, becomes an inversion of his deicidal intention rather than an inverting and revolutionary destruction of theology.
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Jonathan PadleyEmail: |
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Susan Louise Stewart 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(2):95-105
The author analyzes two texts, Gloria Whelan’s Homeless Bird and Deborah Ellis’s Parvana’s Journey, in an attempt to explain some of the problems and difficulties associated with those texts. The author examines Whelan’s
representations of India and finds troubling binaries associated with that text. In comparison, the author finds Ellis’s depictions
of Afghanistan more nuanced and complex. The author also discusses student reception of both texts and offers ways to problematize
some of their reactions.
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Susan Louise StewartEmail: |
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David Rudd 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(3):159-168
This paper sees Neil Gaiman’s Coraline as following a darker tradition in children’s literature, most commonly found in the fairy tale. It explores some of the
existential issues that concern us all: to do with identity, sex, death, ontology, evil, desire and violence. The article
takes a largely psychoanalytical approach, showing how Freud’s concept of the Uncanny is particularly helpful in explaining
both the text’s appeal, and its creepy uneasiness. Namely, our fears about existence and identity as separate beings: our
worry that we will either not be noticed (being invisible and isolated), or we will be completely consumed by the attention
of another. Lacan’s concepts of the Symbolic and the Real provide the theoretical underpinning for this reading, together
with Kristeva’s notion of the abject.
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David RuddEmail: |
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The intensifying globalization has made street survival more brutal and miserable for homeless children, especially in Third World countries. Sanmao, the Vagrant is a wordless picture book which tells of the adventures of a boy named Sanmao in streets of Shanghai during WWII. The essay analyzes how the artist’s ingenious visual narrative authentically anticipates the omnipresent impact of globalization on innocent children. Sanmao’s survival totally relies on his resilience and proactivity. He falls prey to unbridled exploitation and coercive and abusive treatment. Originally a comic intended for adults, the book is the artist’s furious protest against the indifferent attitude of the adult world.
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Wenju ShenEmail: |
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Ariko Kawabata 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2006,37(2):125-131
Mary Norton’s The Borrowers has a complicated narrative framework, through which the story of the small people, the Borrowers, is told. Once we find that the embedded story is carefully set at the turn of the nineteenth century, parallels with Burnett’s The Secret Garden are recognized, in which a lonely Anglo-Indian child experiences some mysterious happenings in an old English country house. Sharing the cultural ambiguity and the sense of loss, both the Garden’s Mary and The Borrowers’ Boy tell stories. Comparing the two works, I will explore the specific cultural meaning of the life of an Anglo-Indian child, and how it relates to the theme of The Borrowers.
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Ariko KawabataEmail: |
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Christina M. Desai 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2006,37(2):163-184
This article explores the question of how children’s literature reflects national identity in a diverse society. Drawing parallels with Ellison’s Invisible Man, it speculates on how literary omissions and misrepresentations of diverse groups may influence the minds of young readers in their attitudes toward themselves, their nation, and others. In a sampling of the current children’s picture book literature of Malaysia in English, it relates current thinking in multiculturalist and post-colonial theory to the forms of multiculturalism found in these works. It examines this literature’s representations of history, diversity, class, gender, and values to determine who is represented, how they are portrayed, who is excluded, and what values are promoted, exploring what image of national identity this literature projects.
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Christina M. DesaiEmail: |
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Melissa Gross 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(2):115-126
Alice Miller’s work provides a theoretical framework to assess the effects of child abuse and its relationship to the development
of creativity, hatred, and violence in the novel Ender’s Game. Analysis focuses on the extent to which children are manipulated in order to meet the needs of adults, the presence of behaviors
such as the repression of feelings and memories, the idealization of perpetrators, blind obedience to authority, and the expression
of repressed feelings in destructive acts, and identification of a helping witness as predictors for the actions and outcomes
in this story.
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Melissa GrossEmail: |
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Susan Louise Stewart 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2009,40(3):180-196
When Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was published in 1952, he could not have known the impact his metaphor of invisibility would have on adolescent and YA literature.
However, upon closer inspection, the importance and prevalence of his metaphor becomes evident. Authors of adolescent and
YA literature routinely use the metaphor as an intertextual shortcut to discuss issues that shape adolescent subjectivity,
which is demonstrated through an examination of Sapphire’s Push, Virginia Hamilton’s The Planet of Junior Brown, and Robert Cormier’s Fade.
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Susan Louise StewartEmail: |
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Don Latham 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(3):213-226
In Skellig, Kit’s Wilderness, and Clay, David Almond employs various types of intertextuality to enrich his narratives. Through the use of allusion, adaptation,
collage, and mise-en-abyme, he encourages his adolescent readers to seek out precursor texts and to consider the interrelationships between these texts
and his own. By so doing, he demonstrates the respect he has for his readers and empowers them to become active makers of
meaning.
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Don LathamEmail: |
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Zbigniew Semadeni 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,68(1):1-17
To explicate certain phenomena, e.g., the possibility of deduction without definition, we hypothesize that an individual is
able to understand and appreciate reasoning with a due feeling of its necessity when the concept image of each concept involved
in the reasoning has reached a certain level of development; we then speak of deep intuition. This conception is presented (with a variety of examples) in the framework of D. Tall’s theory of three worlds of mathematics
(‘conceptual-embodied’, ‘proceptual-symbolic’, and ‘formal-axiomatic’).
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Zbigniew SemadeniEmail: |
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Robert L. Jackson 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):332-346
The motivation and methodology for measuring intelligence have changed repeatedly in the modern history of large-scale student
testing. Test makers have always sought to identify raw aptitude for cultivation, but they have never figured out how to promote
excellence while preserving equality. They’ve settled for egalitarianism, which gives rise to “culturally fair” tests that
substitute vagaries for knowledge, deprive students of any real appreciation for language, and trivialize education. Robert
Jackson yearns for traditional oratorical approaches to schooling that venerate and imitate essential, time-tested masters.
Unfortunately, he writes, such an education defies measurement with today’s multiple-choice instruments.
Robert L. Jackson is associate professor of English and education at The King’s College, New York, NY 10118; rjackson@tkc.edu. 相似文献
Robert L. JacksonEmail: |
Robert L. Jackson is associate professor of English and education at The King’s College, New York, NY 10118; rjackson@tkc.edu. 相似文献
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Kelly Wissman 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(1):17-34
This article explores how Sandra Cisneros alludes to and recasts popular fairy tales in The House on Mango Street to reveal their troubled legacy in the lives of many women in the novel. Drawing upon Latina feminist theory and Cisneros’s
autobiographical writing, this article posits that the main character Esperanza’s alternative “happily ever after” comes through
locating the vocation of writing as the fulcrum for self-definition and social change. It is suggested that feminist literary
criticism can be enhanced through analysis of heroines from diverse cultural backgrounds and theoretical frameworks attuned
to racial and ethnic diversity.
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Kelly WissmanEmail: |
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Janice E. Jackson 《Journal of Educational Change》2007,8(2):105-109
Today’s media is filled with stories of man’s inhumanity toward man. Education journals are replete with assessments of educators
as failing to meet the demands of the modern world. Jansen offers stories of hope to counterbalance the bombardment of negative
stories. His research “explores the character of leadership in transition societies”. He draws portraits of three educators,
in leadership roles, whose lives provide a moment for us to catch our breath and remember that leaders have choices about
how they will live out their roles in ways that are grounded in social justice
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Janice E. JacksonEmail: |
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Alberto J. Rodriguez 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(4):867-873
This paper provides a critical review essay of Ajay Sharma’s Portrait of a science teacher as a bricoleur: A case study from India. The main focus is two fold. First, arguments are presented to draw attention to how little advances in science teaching and
science learning research have impacted teachers’ practice and student achievement in the last 40 years. Second, the paper
describes how the researcher’s traditionally detached role and truncated agency may inadvertently contribute to preserving
the status quo by only documenting the Other’s struggles and challenges. I suggest that researchers need to re-conceptualize
their roles as co-agents of change if we are to assist the Other effect positive and long-lasting change in the increasingly
complex and demanding contexts in which teachers are expected to teach and students to learn.
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Alberto J. RodriguezEmail: |
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Thomas Crisp 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(4):237-261
Few pieces of GLBTQ fiction have received the popular and scholarly acclaim awarded to Alex Sanchez’s Rainbow Boys series. Although “problem novels” are rarely taken seriously as literature, the books—the first novel in particular—have
joined the few pieces of GLBTQ literature incorporated into educational discourse and curriculum. In this article, the author
suggests that although the positive nature and surface construction appeals to those seeking “affirmative” representations
of GLBTQ youth, the contributions made by the series may be overshadowed by its reliance on heteronormative gender stereotypes
that may actually work to perpetuate homophobic attitudes toward gay sexuality.
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Thomas CrispEmail: |
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Wolff-Michael Roth’s In Search of Meaning and Coherence: A Life in Research, presents a selection of his previously published key works layered with current commentary and analysis. In this book review,
we explore themes that emerge through the text to trace Roth’s development as a theoretician and as a researcher. We recommend
this book for all those who are interested in Wolff-Michael Roth and the trajectory of his career, in particular those who
are just beginning their journey towards academic scholarship.
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Christina SiryEmail: |
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Thomas Uebel 《Science & Education》2009,18(2):161-168
This paper comments on Reisch’s book How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science. Overall supportive of Reisch’s project and perspective, it raises certain points where the data appear inconclusive and
either provides additional support or briefly explores some interpretative alternatives.
Thomas Uebel is professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester, England. One of his main research interests is the history of philosophy of science where he has published widely on different aspects of logical empiricsm. His latest book is Empiricism at the Crossreads. The Vienna Circle’s Protocol Sentence Debate Revisited (Open Court, Chicago, 2007). 相似文献
Thomas UebelEmail: |
Thomas Uebel is professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester, England. One of his main research interests is the history of philosophy of science where he has published widely on different aspects of logical empiricsm. His latest book is Empiricism at the Crossreads. The Vienna Circle’s Protocol Sentence Debate Revisited (Open Court, Chicago, 2007). 相似文献
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Daphne Pan Gary S. H. Tan Kiruthika Ragupathi Krishna Booluck Rita Roop Yuen K. Ip 《Research in higher education》2009,50(1):73-100
Considerable work has been done on student evaluation of teaching/teachers, but reservations remain about its use for summative
purposes. Student ratings are not universally accepted as being reliable, nor can they provide really meaningful information.
Qualitative comments can provide a better understanding but they tend not to be user-friendly from lack of structure and connectedness.
This study attempts to devise a method for ‘quantifying’ students’ comments to increase their usefulness in complementing/confirming
ratings. The quantified results enable the profile construction of what students regard as an effective/ineffective teacher,
and enable identification of strengths and weaknesses. Our findings counter some commonly held assumptions, including those
which held that high ratings are dependent on small class size and ‘dumbing down’ of courses and the consequent expectation
of high grades. The findings also indicate that students value teaching quality more than teacher characteristics, suggesting
their ability to make valid judgments about teaching effectiveness.
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Daphne PanEmail: |