Johari Murray

National Distance Education University | UNED · DIVERSIDAD, SUBJETIVIDAD Y SOCIALIZACIÓN. ESTUDIOS EN ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL, HISTORIA DE LA PSICOLOGÍA Y DE LA EDUCACIÓN

Black Enough (2019) edited by Ibi Zoboi is a collection of rich fictional short stories by prominent authors of children’s and young adult (YA) literature whose backgrounds have been traditionally silenced, underrepresented or misrepresented. The stories engage diverse and many nuanced ways in which the “Black Experiences” of American youths exist...

This is the first part of five sections that make up the PhD dissertation.

Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe. Remarkably, similar texts appeared across the continen...

Book review of Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature. Eds Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera

Educate in equality and diversity through children’s and youth literature. Micro-study on the categories of gender, ethnicity and age in three North American works The school library presents a good opportunity to educate students as informed young readers on issues of gender equality, the concept of ethnicity and attitudes towards age, creating a...

This study explores literal and metaphorical narrations of age by looking closely at two picturebooks published at the turn of the twenty-first century. The evolutionary Western understanding of the child, childhood and children’s literature is briefly periodized as a tension between pragmatic and philosophical concerns. Representations of age are...

Anderson-Faithful presents a keenly researched chronicle of Mary Sumner (1828-1921), the founder and president of the Winchester diocesan organisation, Mothers’ Union. Prefaced by a timeline, the book’s eight chapters are divided into three sections followed by supplemental tables and appendices. Photos are also included, interspersed among the dif...

RP-SIG: Developments and Plans 2 Members’ News 4 New Members 5 Bernese Reading Primers From the 17th to the 19th Century 8 Latgalian Primers (1768-2018), Part 1 22 Sabine Reh, Denise Wilde (Hrsg.): Die Materialiät des Lesen- und Schrei- benlernens. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 2016 (Review) 29 Linguistic Continuity in Group Labeling (Commentary) 31 G...