Literacy and Learning

This basic textbook on the classifications and uses of children''s literature in the elementary school is designed for pre-service teachers and undergraduate students in elementary education. Each chapter provides a fresh approach to familiar literary landscapes by examining each principle in turn, as it relates to classics old and new. Unlike other children''s literature texts that are strictly genre-based, Literacy and Learning is founded on Outward Bound''s ten design principles of Expeditionary Learning: Primacy of self discovery, Having of wonderful ideas, Responsibility for learning, Intimacy and caring, Success and failure, Collaboration and competition,