Childrens Literature and Culture

Code: LLT14978L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Learning Goals

1. To approach the specific system of Children's Literature in the context of the literary polysystem;
2. To know the history of this literary field, especially in its thematic richness and diversity of formats.
3. To recognize the constitution of the literary subsystem by different institutions, in particular those linked to education systems and the promotion of books and reading;
4. To know how to relate works from these systems to other artistic productions and cultural/recreational objects generally understood as productions for the masses.

1 Literature, childhood, and society
1.1 Historical and contemporary perspectives on the concept of childhood.
1.2 From children's books to the environment: from aesthetics to politics
1.3 Market issues: (d)the book (a)the merchandising product
2. Books and objects, object-books
2.1 Writing and reception.
3. Children's literature and institutions
3.1. The pedagogical use of books for children.
4. Text and image: vital relationships
4.1. Children in the video-sphere.
4.2. The game of literature: cinema, theater, television, and "novelization".

Teaching Methods

Theoretical exposition and critical-comparative commentary on texts (and excerpts) from works in the theoretical reference bibliography; reading and commentary on books for children and works in other aesthetic languages (illustration, design, and audiovisual products); oral interventions by students on the themes, contexts or intertextual or intermedial relationships of the corpus covered. In each edition of the course students will read a complete work considered to be a classic of this literary subsystem and the teacher will read it aloud and comment on it. This activity is called Live Literature.

Assessment

Continuous Assessment: there are two assessment components, one of which is a written test and the other a short essay on the work read in its entirety. A percentage of 50% is assigned to each of the assessment elements.
Assessment by Final Exam (normal, appeal, special and extraordinary periods): consists of a written test, to which a percentage of 100% will be assigned.