Children's Literature: Its Impact On the Mind Of the Child Reader

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2005-05

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Addis Ababa Universiy

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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

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Its Impact On the Mind Of the Child Reader

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