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Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • discuss some of the different theories, approaches and debates in the interdisciplinary field of children’s literature

  • reflect on your own and others’ memories of children's literature

  • consider how the academic disciplines of literature and childhood intersect, bringing different perspectives to the field

  • describe how texts for children and young people convey and challenge ideas around diversity through an exploration of ethnic diversity.

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