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Jess
Unregistered User
(6/3/02 5:16:11 pm)
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Fairy tales and young children - any new research?
Hi all,
I am working on developing the article discussed in an earlier thread about the importance of fairy tales and folktales in children's development. Heidi and Erz are also working with me on this. To get to the point, I was wondering if anyone is working on or is familiar with any recent studies that support this idea. The article will focus on the 0-6 age group, but I would like to be as informed as possible. I am reading and rereading Jane Yolen's Touch Magic and Jack Zipes Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Cultural Industry to get the best grounding, but I would like to include (or at least be knowledgeable about) the results of recent studies, if any. Anyone? Reprints?
I will of course do my own research, but if anyone has suggestions, it would be appreciated?
Jess
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Helen
Registered User
(6/3/02 5:21:15 pm)
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Re: Fairy tales and young children - any new research?
Well, if you're planning to delve into psycho-analytic theory as well as socio-cultural stuff, Bruno Bettelheim is a must (if only so that you can refute him). Sheldon Cashdan is somewhat more reasonable ... I just had to give all of my library books in preperation for graduation, so my mind is blanking a bit - the anguish of seperation - but ... mmm ... also Max Luthi. Will think on this a bit more and get back to you. It sounds like a great project!
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Don
Registered User
(6/4/02 4:30:01 am)
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Re: Fairy tales and young children - any new research?
A review of earlier scholarship on this topic is included in the essay "Response and Responsibility in Reading Grimms' Fairy Tales," in THE RECEPTION OF GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES: RESPONSES, REACTIONS, REVISIONS, ed. Donald Haase (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 230-49 (esp. pp. 240-45). Research on the topic that is specifically relevant in the context of gender is discussed in "Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Bibliography" in the special issue of MARVELS & TALES on "Fairy Tale Liberation--Thirty Years Later" (vol. 14, no. 1 [2000]: 15-63; esp. pp. 36-38) . The article on "Psychology and Fairy Tales" in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO FAIRY TALES also surveys theories of the relationship between fairy tales and child development.
Edited by: Don at: 6/4/02 4:37:01 am
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Jess
Unregistered User
(6/4/02 8:56:41 pm)
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Thanks
Don and Helen,
Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely check them out. Since
the article is geared to the popular press, as opposed to academic
press, I don't think it will include heavy-duty analysis, but I
want to be able to synthesize whatever is out. Your suggestions
will be most helpful. Back to the books.
Jess
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