..., 2005 , p. 86); and texts that can “open up meanings” (Macintyre, 2011 , p. 354). From the mid-twentieth century children’s literature was afforded greater status within schools in the Western world due to new reader-based approaches to reading and literacy, alongside recognition fostered through...

... and colonial narratives in post-federation experimental curriculum, this paper offers insight into the role such narratives played in the formation of Australian national identity. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Australia Kindergarten Children's literature Aboriginal legends Aboriginal...

... questions, as a source of data, to test findings and, in the words of Jean Bethke Elshtain, in assisting them to be less removed from the ‘wellsprings’ of their own ‘thought and action’. My aim in this article is to reconnect my experience with constructions of teachers in Australian children’s literature...