Contents and Editorial
In the editorial The Journey, Sandie Mourão and Janice Bland outline a brief history of the picturebook in education with a view to documenting some of what they consider to be major milestones. read more
Volume 4 | Issue 2 | November 2016 |
Recommended Venue – The Eric Carle Museum
Naomi Hamer introduces The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. read more
Article 1 – Picturebooks in Educating Teachers
Smiljana Narančić Kovač shows how an understanding of the theoretical and historical background to picturebooks empowers teachers to use them in their teaching practice in an efficient way. read more
Article 2 – Promoting ‘Learning’ Literacy
Gail Ellis focuses on learning how to learn and multiple literacies with the aid of picturebooks, which provide a rich and motivating resource to develop children’s metacognitive and cognitive learning strategies. read more
Article 3 – Picturebooks and Diversity
Janice Bland considers ideological dimensions of language education and shows how elements of intercultural and intra-cultural education can be elicited through refugee narratives and stories of diversity in language education. read more
Article 4 – Finding Identity within Literature
Xiaodi Zhou examines the literacy experiences and reading responses of an Arab 5th grader as he struggles for agency in a classroom of majority-culture fellow students in the US. read more
Book Review
Janice Bland reviews Reading for Learning. Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature (Maria Nikolajeva, 2014). read more