Literature, Child and Adult: Towards a didactics of astonishment
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Literature, Children, Creativity, Reading, Teaching.
Abstract
The attraction that we feel towards literature in our childhoodgets weaker as time goes by. In the first years of elementary school,a distance between children and literature usually appears leading them into disappointment. From that fact, in this paper we reflect on children and their boundlesscreativity so similar to that one in the artist. We proposeto approach to the literary text as we move closer to a living beingand not as to an analysable object. In this way, we will get a certaincontinuity from the childish stage, where book and game are not at odds.Furthermore, we claim the utility of literature as a cognitive toolable to seize reality in a period where humanities and art are moreand more swept by the logic of market.Downloads
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Montiel López J. (2017). Literature, Child and Adult: Towards a didactics of astonishment. Didáctica. Lengua y Literatura, 29, 207-219. https://doi.org/10.5209/DIDA.57139
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