Children’s Literature & Ideology

1. Children’s Literature & Ideology Peter Hollindale. Ideology And The Children’s Book. 18-40 2009.11. 11 By Shing Er Wu

2. ID：ideology A systematic scheme of ideas, usu. relating to politics or society, or to the conduct of aclassor group, and regarded as justifyng actions … ~ Oxford English Dictionary

3. Some statements for reading children’s book p.19~20

4. Book People vs. Child People（文學本位） （ 兒童本位）

5. defending both with equal enthusiasm： Any individual is free to elevate political judgement above literary judgement and free to like and admire a great work of literature, even if its ideology is repellent. ex. reading D. H. Lawrence p. 23 talking about ideology led to presseure to children’s ；how is more important than what p.23

6. Diversity and Individuality What Leeson talk about “matching” ？ the writer’s creative freedom should be respected but also be understood p.24 readers perceive the same story in different ways：age, sex, race, social class … p. 26 Conclusion: ideology is inevitable, untameable and largely uncontrollable (because of the multiplicity and diversity in each individual form ) p.27

7. Three Levels of Ideology 作者明確、有意想傳達的意識形態 作者被動、未經檢視的意識形態 作者所處的世界普遍的意識形態

8. The reader as ideologist ideology is not something which is transferred to children, it is something which they already possess examples from Rob Grunsell & Susan Price’s Where I Stand

9. Locating the ideology of individual books concerns with “how to” what if the components of a text are transposed or reversed consider the denouements and the happening the values shown as a “package” in separate items ? some of the values are test and undermined ? the value associated with characters have to make a difficult choice in the story? any character shown as a mixture of roles? the omission and invisibility

10. Conclusion： Ideology is a living thing, and something we need to know as we need to know ourselves. It is part of us. p.40 圖片來源：長新太