Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books

The contribution offers some pedagogical reflections dedicated to the theme of tenderness in education through the exploration of a repertoire of excellent picture books published in the field of children’s publishing. The poetic investigation of the suggestions from the bibliographic corpus highlig...

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Main Author: Marcella Terrusi
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Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2024-12-01
Series:Encyclopaideia
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Online Access:https://encp.unibo.it/article/view/19951
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Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books
Encyclopaideia
children's literature
tenderness
body education
relationship in education
picture books
title Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books
title_full Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books
title_fullStr Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books
title_full_unstemmed Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books
title_short Children’s literature and tenderness: Pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care, the well-being of relationships and affection in picture books
title_sort children s literature and tenderness pedagogical reflections on the gestures of care the well being of relationships and affection in picture books
topic children's literature
tenderness
body education
relationship in education
picture books
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