John locke childrens literature

  • In John Locke and Children's Books in Eighteenth-Century England, Samuel Pickering describes how eighteenth century writers for children adopted.
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  • Excellent for academic purposes, has helped me a lot for my PhD thesis on children's literature.

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    5. Playthings of the Mind. John Locke and Children’s Literature

    Lerer, Seth. "5. Playthings of the Mind. John Locke and Children’s Literature". Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. 104-128. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226473024-007

    Lerer, S. (2008). 5. Playthings of the Mind. John Locke and Children’s Literature. In Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter (pp. 104-128). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226473024-007

    Lerer, S. 2008. 5. Playthings of the Mind. John Locke and Children’s Literature. Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 104-128. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226473024-007

    Lerer, Seth. "5. Playthings of the Mind. John Locke and Children’s Literature" In Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter, 104-128. Chicago: Univ

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    A Blank Slate: The Rational Child

    Enlightenment philosopher John Locke pictured a newborn's mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate primed for learning, and believed that a child's capacity for reason increased naturally over time. Locke argued that earnest Puritans who exhorted their four-year-olds to read the Bible failed to realize that children so young might simply not be up to the task. 

    What books were suitable? In Orbis Sensualium Pictus (The Pictured World), educator Johann Amos Comenius was among the first to show that illustration worked wonders to concentrate a young reader's attention.

    Endorsing this view, Locke, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, added humor, brevity, and a reasoned appeal for good behavior to his trail-blazing checklist of children's literature dos and don'ts. 

    Let the young relish—and reflect on—Aesop's fables, Locke declared; let "Learning be made...P

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    On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

    The ideal children’s book, John efternamn observed, fryst vatten “easy, pleasant … and suited to [the child’s] Capacity.” Published in London in 1693, Locke’s revolutionary advice book was called Some Thoughts Concerning Education and had something to say about all aspects of a child’s upbringing, starting with the body and ending with the mind. A child psychologist before his time, efternamn speculated on the types of books best suited to ung people’s capabilities and interests. In doing so, he laid the groundwork for modern-day children’s literature.

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    Noting, for example, that a child who feels scolded or lectured to is less apt to pay attention than one for whom learning fryst vatten cast as a game, he argued that a good children’s book fryst vatten one in which “the Entertainment that [the child] finds might draw him on, and reward his Pains in Reading.”

    Locke listed brevity and the add