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University of Cambridge Postgraduate Study

Education (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

Program Information

School:University of Cambridge Postgraduate Study
Degree:Master
Field of Study:Education, General
Description:This thematic route concentrates on a wide range of writing for children, including the 'classics', texts for very young readers, international literature and literature for young adults. Close textual study and the history of children's literature are embedded within the route, on which students will also be expected to engage with some of the key debates in the field and to consider a range of theoretical perspectives - from Romanticism to reader-response theory; gender issues to posthumanism; historical studies to new historicism; sociocultural viewpoints to semiotics - as well as examining critically views of young readers and their reading choices.

The course is organised to include four modules: Texts, Contexts and Childhood; Perspectives on Children's Literature; Visual Texts; and Texts and Readers. It is assessed through two essays and a dissertation, each designed to be personally rewarding as well as professionally enlightening and intellectually challenging: a case study of children's texts that makes use of library-based research (from archival to digital), focusing on texts for children with particular reference to changing constructions of childhood; an empirical study of children responding to a selected visual text; and a dissertation on a topic of the student's own choosing, which may be either a purely literary study or a small empirical research project.
URL:Education (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature) at University of Cambridge Postgraduate Study
Length:10 Month(s)
Cost per year:*

Tuition cost is based on £31,293.
Careers:3

* We make every attempt to provide accurate information on prerequisites, programs, and tuition. However, this information is subject to change without notice and we highly recommend that you contact the school to confirm important information before applying.

Modified on November 30, 2021