Yes it applies to little kids!
I LOVE the Stevenson quote in response to H. James (who seems to have
gotten wrapped up in an odd place in the quote).
Sheila and i were discussing last night the phenomenon of little kids
like to hear the same story read over and over and over and over again
and young teens reading, for example, Lord of the Rings several times.
And adults going to Operas or listening to music they particularly
love repeatedly.
There is an age-related component to these phenomena -- parents go
nuts on the 300th reading of /Where the Wild Things Are/ or
/Goodnight Moon/, little kids cannot stand, as a rule, listening to
the Goldberg variations, etc.
Has anyone written about this phenomeon and what means?
Thanks for the /Educated Mind/ tip, David C. Sound relevant to ongoing
discussion re goals of education that might guide reform
efforts.
mike
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Ageliki Nicolopoulou <agn3@lehigh.edu
<mailto:agn3@lehigh.edu>> wrote:
Thanks, Mike, for this very useful article. This relates a lot to
what I have been trying to do these past few years and it pulls
the adult literature well together. My work has centered more on
preschoolers spontaneous (fantasy) stories and I have tried to
find ways to analyze them, which goes beyond just using structural
criteria but also incorporates content in a serious way (that is,
it incorporates content and structure). I have also argued (as do
Mar & Oatley, but for adults) for the significant of character in
children's narratives (whether for learning to comprehend or tell
stories) and I'm continuing to think about these issues. More
recently, I have devoted my attention/effort in creating an
intervention programs using commercially available children's
books to promote narrative comprehension as well as social
understanding, especially for low-income children. As I'm in the
midst of writing about these issues, this article is very useful.
Thanks again,
Ageliki
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mike cole wrote:
Of course, i *would *forget to attach the article. Here it is.
mike
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:56 PM, mike cole<lchcmike@gmail.com
<mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com>> wrote:
Sorting through all the unread journals and seeking to
bring order to the
helterskelter
of my intellectual meanderings, i came across this article
that I think
should hold some
interest for xmca-o-philes.
As some of you know, I have an abiding interest in the
idea of tertiary
artifacts, works of
art, for Wartofsky (so I learned from Yrjo), play,
"alternative worlds"
like the 5th Dimension
that Peg Griffin invented and I have played in for a long
time. But I also
teach and think (think and
teach?) about various communication media including novels
and sitcoms.
This article caught
my attention in that odd nexus of interests: fiction as
"simulations," or,
we might say, tertiary artifacts, or we might say, "tools
to think with."
Delete or read along, as the mood catches you.
mike
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