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Unit of Study EDUC3017 - Children's Literature (2022)

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Unit description

Provides an understanding of contemporary approaches to the study of children's literature, including the tools of visual literacy and textual analysis. These insights are applied to current Australian children's literature and to its most effective use in the classroom.

Unit content

  • An introduction to children's literature 
  • The language of children's literature 
  • Visual literacy 
  • Textual analysis
  • Selecting texts
  • Curriculum connections
  • A history of children's books
  • The development of Australian children's literature
  • Literary genres
  • Information books

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Not currently available in 2022

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

describe a wide variety of concepts, features, themes, issues and text-types represented in children's literature

discuss the place of literature in a child's cognitive, language, social and personality development

evaluate children's literature and determine its effectiveness in enhancing the learning of a diverse range of students

plan for the integration of children's literature across the KLAs.