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To caution or not to caution? The fate of the cautionary tale in the teaching of creative writing to aspiring children's authors in post 9/11 epoch
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To caution or not to caution? The fate of the cautionary tale in the teaching of creative writing to aspiring children's authors in post 9/11 epoch

Gary Crew
2009 University Research Conference Program Book, p.23
USC Research Conference, 2009 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 09-Nov-2009)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2009
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Abstract

Performing Arts and Creative Writing historical and creative pedagogies children's cautionary tales
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 Et 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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