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Realms of innocence, realms of ignorance: Teaching the post 9/11 cautionary tale
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Realms of innocence, realms of ignorance: Teaching the post 9/11 cautionary tale

Gary Crew
Refereed conference papers of the 14th Annual Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference, pp.1-8
Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) Conference, 14th (Hamilton, New Zealand, 26-Nov-2009–28-Nov-2009)
Australian Association of Writing Programs
2009
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Performing Arts and Creative Writing creative writing pedagogy children's literature innocence
There are those who claim that childhood is the realm of innocence and should remain so. Others however claim that the overprotected child is more likely to become a victim of life's grim realities, insofar as that child is not exposed to the vicissitudes of the ways of the world (Egan & Hawkes. 2007). Since ancient times, children's cautionary tales have warned against the presence of dark forces, from uncaring parents to wolves in the forest (Warner 1994). This paper addresses the historical and creative pedagogies implicit in the development of tertiary programmes designed to teach writing for child audiences in the 21st Century, particularly the issue of how should those aspiring to write for today's post 9-11 child approach the complex problem of either preparing the child reader for the realities of the 21st Century by exposing that child to the realities of war, famine and human vice, or of continuing to maintain a state of protection (so-called) by screening that child from such realities.

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