Curriculum studies: children's literature in the primary and secondary school (Australian)
Offered next in 1996 * Alternate years to GEC4429
GD PD BC BP
Subject value 1.0 * 2 hours per weekend school and 2 hours per vacation school * Second semester * Gippsland/Distance
Students will study the history and emergence of literature for children in the Australian setting from the earliest period to the present day. There will be a special study of Aboriginal myths and legends and the emergence of modern Aboriginal children's writers. Students will be expected to trial a wide range of Australian children's books and assess child responses to Australian works. A study of Australian radio, TV and film developments in the area of children's literature will be included in this subject, together with Australian children's poetry and drama, comics and magazines. A reading list will accompany this subject.
Assessment
Two assignments of equal weight
Prescribed texts
Curriculum Development Centre Australian literature in the primary classroom, CDC, 1988
Hancock J and Hill S Literature-based reading programs at work ARA, 1987
McVitty W Innocence and experience: Essays on contemporary Australian children's writers Nelson, 1981