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This article addresses the need for student teachers to experience how to engage ecocritically with children’s literature to be able to support and develop the sustainability competencies of their future students. In order to respond to this need, we designed a research project examining how Norwegian and Catalan student teachers express and negotiate their ideas about an Italian–French picturebook in a teacher–researcher designed ecocritical literature conversation (ELC). The collected material, consisting of students’ notes and sound recorded and transcribed group discussions, was analysed following the steps of content analysis with an emphasis on finding evidence of dialogic competencies and ecocritical competencies. Although the students did not explicitly integrate ecocritical terminology in their discussions, we found that when structured in line with ideas of dialogic teaching, ecocritical thinking, and literature didactics, literature conversations proved to be a useful tool for these students to critically engage with and negotiate about representations of nature and ecological wisdom from the selected picturebook.
Nina Goga; Maria Pujol-Valls. Ecocritical Engagement with Picturebook through Literature Conversations about Beatrice Alemagne’s OnaMagicalDo-NothingDay. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7653 .
AMA StyleNina Goga, Maria Pujol-Valls. Ecocritical Engagement with Picturebook through Literature Conversations about Beatrice Alemagne’s OnaMagicalDo-NothingDay. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7653.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNina Goga; Maria Pujol-Valls. 2020. "Ecocritical Engagement with Picturebook through Literature Conversations about Beatrice Alemagne’s OnaMagicalDo-NothingDay." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7653.
This chapter draws attention to bestiaries—compilations of poems featuring animals—published for children in Catalan. The representation of the animals in the text and illustrations is analysed using an ecocritical approach. This chapter focuses on a selection of poems by contemporary authors and illustrators presenting ants. Pujol-Valls explores whether these insects are described from an anthropocentric or an ecocentric point of view, and whether they problematize or celebrate nature. Comparing representations of ants from different bestiaries, Pujol-Valls brings awareness to the concept of nature offered to young readers of today. Simultaneously, this chapter sheds light on the way that creatures such as ants can be stereotyped in the Western literary tradition.
Maria Pujol-Valls. The Representation of Ants in Catalan Contemporary Poetry for Children. Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures 2018, 191 -206.
AMA StyleMaria Pujol-Valls. The Representation of Ants in Catalan Contemporary Poetry for Children. Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures. 2018; ():191-206.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Pujol-Valls. 2018. "The Representation of Ants in Catalan Contemporary Poetry for Children." Ecocritical Perspectives on Children's Texts and Cultures , no. : 191-206.