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Centrum Badań Literatury dla Dzieci i Młodzieży Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego zaprasza na pierwszy z trzech wykładów z serii „Kontrowersyjne wymiary literatury dla dzieci i młodzieży”:
Prof. Junko Yokota
Interpretive and Hidden Controversies in Literature for Children
Wykład w języku angielskim rozpocznie się 23 września 2020 o godz. 18.00 na platformie MS Teams.
Wszystkich zainteresowanych wzięciem udziału w wykładzie prosimy o kontakt mailowy w terminie do 22 września na adres: barbara.kalla@uwr.edu.pl
Controversies are found in many ways in the pages and pictures of books for children. Sometimes, those controversies are overt and the books are intended to be provocative. At other times, what might be considered controversial is presented in ways that normalize those topics and issues so as to be naturally inclusive. Controversies are often matters of reader interpretation whether authors have knowingly or unintentionally placed them, and some are subjected to interpretation that occurs years and even decades after the book is first published. What makes some controversies even more provocative is when the controversies are overlooked or seemingly hidden. Examples of interpretive and hidden controversies in both illustrations in picturebooks as well as in texts of longer works will be presented.
Fot. Wojciech Drąg
Junko Yokota is Director of the Center for Teaching through Children’s Books, Professor Emeritus at National Louis University (Chicago), and formerly a classroom teacher and school librarian. Her research focuses on visual literacy of picturebooks, multicultural and international literature, digital storytelling, and literacy instruction through quality literature. Her publications include six editions of the coauthored textbook, Children’s Books in Children’s Hands, two coauthored books, Learning through Literature for Children and Books Come Alive: Read Aloud to Young Children, over 60 journal articles, 20 book chapters, two children’s literature review columns, and edited Kaleidoscope. She has held research fellowships at the International Youth Library and the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, and was a Fulbright Scholar at University of Wrocław.