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- Ivakko, Sirkka, et al.
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Läsarengagemang, bildtolkning och identifikation : Barns brev till tidskriften Jultomten
- 2022
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Ingår i: Barnboken. - Stockholm : Svenska barnboksinstitutet. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 45, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines a selection of children’s letters sent to the editor of the Swedish annual Christmas publication Jultomten (Father Christmas) during three years at the turn of the century 1900. The aim is to show how children responded to the editor’s invitation to write letters to the journal, how the children commented on some of the images, and how their appreciation and involvement were articulated in terms of reader engagement, interpretation, and identification. For this purpose, the letters were analyzed with the help of visual literacy theories and methods, which focus on primary school children’s picture (and picturebook) reception. The results show that the children’s response to the chosen images varies according to their level of involvement and degree of visual literacy competence.
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- Persson, Magnus, et al.
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Litteraturhistorieundervisningens möjligheter och utmaningar i en globaliserad värld
- 2022
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Ingår i: Didaktiska perspektiv på språk och litteratur i en globaliserad värld. - Lund : Svenska med didaktisk inriktning. - 9789178772858 - 9789178772841 ; , s. 215-229
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denna essä har ett blygsamt syfte – vi vill introducera och kort pröva några resonemang om problemområdet litteraturhistoriedidaktik i en globaliserad värld – och resonera om varför och hur ska vi läsa och undervisa om klassiker och äldre litteratur i en tid präglad av kulturell heterogenitet. I samband med detta gör vi en jämförelse mellan de nuvarande ämnesplanerna för engelska och svenska i gymnasieskolan, centrala styrdokument som våra blivande lärare måste förhålla sig till. Vad säger egentligen styrdokumenten om litteratur? Vilket utrymme ges litteraturhistoria? Finns här några globala och interkulturella perspektiv, och i så fall vilka? Vi kommer även att göra några korta nedslag i egna undervisningserfarenheter. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna är litteraturdidaktiska och kulturanalytiska.
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- Reljanovic Glimäng, Malin, 1968-
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Reading the world through virtual exchange : critical interculturality and glocal awareness in English teacher education
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Virtual exchange (VE) is a pedagogical approach that connects learners across borders and cultures through online communication technologies. Taking a point of departure in critical social constructivism, this thesis contributes to the VE research field by presenting a collection of studies that explore the intersections of critical interculturality, global citizenship education, and online exchange in English teacher education. The aim is to explore ways in which VE participants navigate online cross-cultural dialogue and intercultural experiences in projects anchored in real-world issues and connected with the United Nations sustainable development goals. Furthermore, the aim is to examine what pedagogical insights pre-service teachers can gain from participating in VE, as a learning-by-doing experience for their future profession as English teachers. This approach, developed in accordance with critical virtual exchange (CVE), involves engaging the participants in inquiry, action, and reflection, where they explore a topic from multiple perspectives, collaborate with peers from different cultural backgrounds, create tangible products that demonstrate their learning, and reflect on their own assumptions, biases, and learning processes. Through action research and analysis of participants’ self-reported data and co-created artifacts, this thesis foregrounds the role of critical reflection as interconnected with and generated from the process of collaborative design. The findings show that, through active participation in VEs designed with a focus on global citizenship education, pre-service teachers can gain self-awareness, professional pedagogical insights, and evoke un/relearning of that which is often taken for granted in their own (educational) cultures. While shedding light on the challenges involved in transnational online collaboration, the thesis demonstrates the transformative potential of VE in teacher education, as well as the need for further research and development of this innovative pedagogical approach as a model that pre-service teachers can transfer to school contexts and explore in their own future classrooms. In an increasingly globalized, digitally advanced, and interconnected world, VE can serve as a conduit for glocalizing the curriculum and promoting internationalization at home in teacher education programs.
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Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of silence and silencing evokes questions of self in relation to others, of language and of communication, even of what it is that makes us human. It contains numerous interpretative possibilities, all highly relevant for the study of children’s literature. Aiming the searchlight at silence and silencing points at the multiple ways in which children’s literature functions, and how complex and varied – and sometimes paradoxical – children’s literature is as a field. The relationship between children’s literature and silence suggests an intriguing tension between voicing and silencing, between speech and the unspoken. While children’s literature tends to be considered a liberating and empowering force in children’s lives, it can also be seen as implicated in a widespread and deeply rooted discourse of silence and silencing, which draws on the idea that children should be seen but not heard. The theme also draws attention to how children’s literature can both challenge and reinforce notions of which subjects are tabooed or censored, which further points to the necessity of examining the silences and lacunae within children’s literature.This volume springs out of a global congress, IRSCL Congress 2019: Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature, organized by the editors of this volume in Stockholm, Sweden. The volume includes the five keynotes of the congress as well as a selection of studies sprung from congress presentations. It is divided into five sections: Multiple Facets of Silence and Silencing, Narrating Silence, Addressing Aetonormative Silences, Structural and Societal Silences and Silencing, and Trauma and Traumatic Silences. The book is edited by Elina Druker, Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden; Björn Sundmark, Professor at Malmö University, Sweden; Åsa Warnqvist, Docent and Research Manager at the Swedish Institute for Children’s Books, Sweden, and Mia Österlund, Associate Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
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- Sundmark, Björn, Professor, 1961-, et al.
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Children's Literary Geography
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture. - : Routledge. - 9781003214953 - 9781003214953 ; , s. 45-57
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter addresses the “where” of children’s literature – that is, the settings, the playworlds, the places and spaces of the fictional universe, and the maps and means by which stories make room(s) in the minds of readers. The underlying assumption is that a sense of place (the “where”) is central to the experience of literature. Drawing on examples from the international canon of children’s literature, we show how critics, from Bakhtin and Lewis to Tuan, Bachelard, and Lefebvre, have theorized literary geography (in a wide sense) and developed different critical approaches to it.
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- Sundmark, Björn, Professor, 1961-
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Editing Bookbird 2015-2018
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bookbird. - Basel, : Bookbird, Inc.. - 9780578727257 ; , s. 116-118
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- Sundmark, Björn, Professor, 1961-
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Muminalism : Tove Jansson’s Art of the Miniature
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordiques. - : Presses Universitaires de Caen. - 2777-8479. ; 44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I analyze Tove Jansson’s art of the miniature. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s conceptualization of the miniature and adapting it to the critical discourse of children’s literature and the miniature, I argue that Jansson’s verbal and visual art in general, and in the Moomin series in particular, can be understood in terms of a “miniaturizing imagination”. Thus, the miniature in Tove Jansson’s work – verbal, visual, artifactual – typically achieves condensation and enrichment rather than reduction, a “poetic space” to use Bachelard’s term. Tove Jansson’s “muminalism” serves to open up the fictional world of the Moomintrolls in an act of fictional world-building.
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- Sundmark, Björn, Professor, 1961-
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Skiing and Being Swedish : Taking a Cold Look at Winter Picturebooks
- 2024
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Ingår i: Children’s Literature in Place. - : Routledge. - 9781003355502 - 9781032409498 ; , s. 21-30
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter aims to shed light on the discourse of skiing and Swedishness in three winter picturebooks and one illustrated book. The argument is that these books both reflect and create skiing as a national sport. A geographical setting can produce connotations to a specific climate and landscape, but for a nation-state to become a meaningful place—an “imagined community”—it will have to be associated with certain culturally coded ways of being and acting in response to the physical world. In a Swedish context, skiing provides the “Swedishness” of the place/nation. The main examples under scrutiny are Elsa Beskow’s Olle skidfärd (Olle’s Ski Trip) from 1907, a winter fantasy with strong nationalist connotations; further, Bertil Almqvist’s Barna Hedenhös Vinterresa (The Winter Journey of the Hedenhös Children) (1958), which rewrites the nationalist agenda as a story of technical and social progress; and finally Tove Jansson’s two related texts, Moominland Midwinter (1957) and the comic strip “Moomin’s Winter Follies,” in which Jansson subverts some of the prevalent skiing and winter sports stereotypes, are examined. While these narratives (and many others) are about skiing, layers of meaning are added over time (like snow), none of which vanish completely. In the three iterations we see in the chapter, skiing is associated with nationalist winter fantasy, utopian progress, and comic subversion.
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- Sundmark, Björn, Professor, 1961-
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Snowy State: The Children's History of Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Utopias and Dystopias from <em>Aniara</em> to <em>Allatta!</em>. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 9789027212641 - 9789027257291 ; , s. 111-129
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- Sundmark, Björn, Professor, 1961-, et al.
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The Play of Words, Music, and Images in Hans Alfredson's Flowery Frankfurters
- 2023
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Ingår i: Bookbird. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 0006-7377 .- 1918-6983. ; 61:2, s. 3-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, Hans Alfredson's 1965 phonogram (LP) and illustrated children's book Blommig falukorv (Flowery Frankfurters) are analyzed with the help of play theory. The argument is that Johan Huizinga's theory of play provides a particularly fruitful approach to storytelling across media. The analysis focuses on a selection of the songs/texts from Blommig falukorv, categorizing them under the headings "Songs about Play," "Playful Humor and Nonsense," and "A Pornographic Appendix for the Youngest." Our reading of Blommig falukorv shows that play theory provides a useful approach to storytelling across media; in addition, Blommig falukorv appears to be a particularly rich case of storytelling play, as witnessed in the choice of subjects, language forms, visual style, musical composition, orchestration, and oral delivery and performance.
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