Narrating Humanity
Faculty of Education, Malmö University, Sweden
Doctoral Project: Narrating Humanities: Children’s Literature and Global Citizenship Education.
Supervisor: Professor Björn Sundmark
The aim of this project was to explore how children’s magic realist fiction contributes to critical Global Citizenship Education (GCE). This study suggests that children’s magic realist literature can facilitate young readers’ knowledge and understanding of human rights issues and promote environmental awareness in a non-didactic manner.
My thesis comprises four case studies. Each case study is a detailed examination of four Anglophone contemporary magic realist children’s texts aimed at older child-readers. Each case study demonstrates how the magic realist children’s novels in this study may be used to encourage development of sustainable values of GCE and how they may facilitate learners’ deep understanding of human rights and environmental awareness in a non-didactic way.
