Presenting our Faculty Publications – Easter Reads

This Easter time why not treat yourself to a good read from our latest showcase of faculty publications!

First we head off to the Children’s Literature Criticism section of our Education Ebook Collection, with 2 publications from Karen Coats

Coats, K., & Papazian, G. (Eds.). (2023). Emotion in texts for children and young adults: Moving stories. John Benjamins.

Found in the YA & Adolescent sub section.

This volume contributes to an expanding international conversation about how affect and emotions are represented in national youth literatures. Drawing upon cognitive approaches, affect studies, and feminist perspectives, the ten chapters offer close readings of the ways in which picturebooks, middle grade novels, YA literature, and films from Australia, China, Finland, the Rocky Cree Nation, Spain and the United States attempt to move their young readers.
Karen Coats

Nelson, C., Wesseling, E., & Wu, A. M.-Y. (Eds.). (2024). The Routledge companion to children’s literature and culture. Routledge.

Found in the General Criticism sub section

Chapter 2: Poetics and pedagogy (pp.21-32) Written by Karen Coats

Since its inception as a commodity, children’s literature has been burdened with the mandate to teach something while wearing its didactic purposes lightly – to both instruct and delight. This has made its distinct contributions to poetics and pedagogy difficult to disentangle, assess, defend and locate institutionally—should it be taught for its enduring literary qualities, or as a temporary tool to foster multiliteracies and prosocial values? Which has borne more weight in the reception of children’s books over time and why as cultural values and expectations change? In this chapter I take the reader back to the first textbook that was explicitly created to appeal to children—Orbis Sensualium Pictus (The Visible World in Pictures) by John Amos Comenius (1658) to discern how this book set two expectations that are still relevant as conceptual frameworks through which to study children’s literature and its effect on cultural aesthetics: plurality and multimodality.
Karen Coats

Next we head over to the Youth and Globalisation sections with a chapter by Kathryn Moeller

Switzer, H. D., Desai, K., & Bent, E. (Eds.). (2024). Girls in global development: Figurations of gendered power. Berghahn Books.

Chapter 2: Girls as New Frontiers: Corporatized Development and the Politics of Investing in Girls (pp.41-56) Written by Kathryn Moeller

More information about this work can be found in the description on the publisher website

We finish this Easter selection by heading to the Key Figures in Education and Educational Research sections with a chapter by Pam Burnard

Chapter 3: Coupling Bourdieu and Barad: Exploring the Vitality of Cross-cutting Conceptual Meetings (pp.47-59) Written by Pam Burnard and Garth Stahl

More information about this work can be found in the book summary on the publisher website

In case you missed any recently added ebooks by our faculty members, come along to our Education Ebook Collection* with its browsable ‘shelves’ searchable by subject, author or title, and see what you find!