The uses of enchantment

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▪ Our key aim is to find meaning in life- want to make a significant contribution ▪ The importance of moral behaviour ▪ Communicate in a way that reaches the child’s mind as well as adults ▪ Feed imagination/ aids socialisation ▪ Tolkien- Fantasy, recovery, escape & consolation ▪ Hero projected into danger without reason ▪ “Consolation is the greatest service a fairy tale can offer” ▪ Children need stories to be repeated to them to fully understand ▪ Deal with universal inner human problems rather than external life ▪ Fairy tales are a unique art form- open to interpretation- can take different things away from it ▪ Children curious about outside world and future life- engaging ▪ Have great psychological meaning to people of all ages and genders- irrespective of the sex of the story’s hero ▪ Therapeutic – find their own solution ▪ “Today children no longer grow up within the security of an extended family, or of a well-intergrated community.”- important to show children they can make it on their own (confidence/ reassurance) ▪ For children, literature is the most effective in communicating information ▪ Most children’s literature shallow in meaning- learning to read devalued- adds nothing to importance of life ▪ What should they gain from literature? “access to a deeper meaning” ▪ Reading vs telling – need to be repeated ▪ Telling allows for flexibility ▪ Has to be an inter-personal event ▪ Myths- similarities/ differences ▪ “The trouble with some of what’s considered “good children’s literature” is that many of these stories peg the child’s imagination to the level he has already reached on his own.” ▪ Have turned into “empty-minded entertainment” ▪ Disney studios have kept fairy tales alive and breathing


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