Picturebook Collections : A pedagogical tool in diverse classrooms

Collections d'albums de littérature de jeunesse : Un outil pédagogique pour la classe multiculturelle

Conférence avec Nicola Daly, Maître de Conférence à l'Université de Waikato, Hamilton, Nouvelle-Zélande

Mardi 16 octobre 2012

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Biography

Nicola Daly is a senior lecturer in the Department of Arts and Language Education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. She majored in Japanese and linguistics in her undergraduate degrees and completed her PhD in Human Communication Sciences at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia in 1998. Her current research interests lie in language teacher education, and the use of children’s picture books in education. 

Summary

Children’s literature is one of the most important ways that children learn about each other and themselves (Fox & Short, 2003). Researchers often use the metaphor of a window and a mirror to explain the way in which picturebooks offer a way of children seeing themselves and others. Picturebook Collections such as the European PictureBook Collection (Cotton, 1999) and the New Zealand PictureBook Collection (Daly 2012) have been developed as resources for use in European and New Zealand classrooms respectively with the explicit purpose of ensuring children see themselves in the picturebooks used, and have the opportunity to learn about the culture and language of their near neighbours. In this talk, I will describe the development of a new picturebook collection for use in diverse New Zealand classrooms, and give several examples of classroom activities using these picturebooks. Audience members will be asked to consider ways of developing picturebook collections which have relevance to the classrooms they (will) teach in.