RESEARCH AND TRAINING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PROFESSIONALS Teresa Colomer Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Catalan Children’s Literature research has been pioneering in its context It is a focal point in international research
It is a focal point in international training
It is part of an ecosystem of webs and reading promotion institutions
1. The beginnings of research and training in Children’s Literature
Book selec@on and promo@on The libraries 1915. The first European Library School
1918. Children’s sec@on
1921. School circula@ng libraries
Book selec@on and promo@on. The schools
Historic approach to Children’s Literature
Children’s Literature as literature? Children’s Literature as a means to learn about folklore and fantasy
Fades Fadas Hadas Maitagarriak
2. Research at the University
A Catalan research network (1999-‐2006) First Children’s Literature University Research Network in Spain
that compiles the evolu@on of this field of study during the second half of the XX Century I. The book for children and youngsters: a new cultural product II. The XX Century Society and the Catalan Children’s Literature School society The society of consumerism and informa@on The technology, image and media society The crea@on of an academic community
History and folklore
A significant change
Specific subjects
3. Research of the last decade
Grup de Recerca en Etnopoè@ca de les Illes Balears
University research team
A focus on interna@onal research * Par@cipa@on in interna@onal research projects
* The crea@on of the European Network of Picturebook Research
* Bringing in new talents
General studies
Readings for young people
Hipertextuality and digital literature
Publishing houses .
Digital Children's Literature
PhD works Readers' responses
Picture Books
A focus on interna@onal training
Cultura, lectura i literatura per a infants i joves
Prescripció lectora
on learning about images
Hadas Fades Fadas Maitagarriak University of Glasgow; Aarhus University; University of Tilburg; Autonomous University of Barcelona; University of Bri@sh Columbia, Vancouver
An ecosystem of webs and specialised publica@ons
Ins@tu@ons that support research and promo@on of children’s literature
Reading promo@on programmes and fairs