Children's Literature: Its Impact On the Mind Of the Child Reader
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2005-05
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa Universiy
Abstract
The overall focus of this study is to assess why Children 's Literature, Children's
Carioons , Children's Drama etc., are appealing to chi ldren - whether this has to do
with their mental process or cognitive development. Obviously not all literature
meant for ch ildren is attractive: however, we find children enjoying stories
tremendously
An attempt therefore is made in this research whether child ren love or reject these
stories (literature) for reasons related to their mental process, whether the given
literature has something to do with their cog nitive leve l or understanding .
The study consists of two major sections. The first section which is from chapter
one to chapter three, deals with the general theor-ies on ch ildren's literature, on
their types, genres, history etc. The second section presents a co nceptual
framework th at has two subsections.
The first subsection deals with some popular ch ildren's literature and the elements
that contributed to their popularity.
The second subsection presents the experiment (a to ol used to validate the
assumptions that were made in the conceptual framework). A simple experiment
with groups of children was conducted and their results are shown in Tables.
It is hoped th at the study, will throw some light on the relationship with and impact
of chi ld ren 's literature on their cognitive ability
Description
Keywords
Its Impact On the Mind Of the Child Reader