Ecocritical engagement with picturebook through literature conversations about Beatrice Alemagne’s on a magical do-nothing day
Publication date
2020ISSN
2071-1050
Abstract
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.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
37 - Education
Keywords
Pensament crític
Professors -- Formació
Competència comunicativa
Didàctica
Pensamiento crítico
Profesores -- Formación profesional
Competencia comunicativa
Didáctica
Critical thinking
Teachers -- Training
Communicative competence
Didactics
Pages
16
Publisher
MDPI
Collection
12; 18
Is part of
Sustainability
Citation
Goga, Nina, Pujol-Valls, Maria. Ecocritical engagement with picturebook through literature conversations about Beatrice Alemagne’s on a magical do-nothing day. Sustainability, 2020, 12(18), 7653. Disponible en: <https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/18/7653>. Fecha de acceso: 22 oct. 2020. DOI: 10.3390/su12187653.
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