Potent Fictions: Children's Literacy and the Challenge of Popular Culture

by Mary Hilton

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Today's children spend more time than ever before watching television, playing computer games and reading comic and pulp fiction. Many of these are directly designed by the toy and media industry. Are children therefore simply being manipulated?
There is widespread concern that because of these kinds of popular fiction, children do not read quality' literature, resulting in lower standards of literacy. There is also the further fear that because...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415135303

ISBN13:9780415135306

Release Date:March 1996

Publisher:Routledge

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Education Education & Reference Education Theory Elementary Education Language Experience Approach Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Study & Teaching Words, Language & Grammar

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