Tag: #agency
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From Europe to India: Children at the Edge of Adult Dreams between the Crossroads of Ibsenite and Tagorean Worlds
This essay explores how Ibsen’s Ghosts and Tagore’s The Laboratory depict children navigating inherited adult…
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Breaking the Waves: Child Agency and Film Literacy with Ne Zha 2
This essay uses the Chinese animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 to explore how children read…
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The Marginalised Child and the Myth of Progress
This piece explores the lived realities of Dalit and Indigenous children in India, whose lives…
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Gen Z brandishes the One Piece flag in protest – and why it is genius
Gen Z-led revolutionary movements have recently caught the attention of the media, partly due to…
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Rethinking Child Agency Through Relational Ontologies: A Reading of “Into the Uncut Grass” by Trevor Noah
This study examines how Into the Uncut Grass (Noah, 2024) reconfigures child agency through a relational ontology…
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Read-Aloud of Mac Barnett’s “The Wolf, The Duck and The Mouse”
Introducing children to agency can take as many forms as agency itself. Sometimes it can…
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Knitting, Agency and Community-Building in “Extra Yarn”
Knitting has traditionally been depicted as an old, white grandma’s cosy activity. Anabelle, an assertive…
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Children’s Rights and Agency in India: History, Literature, and the Road Ahead (?)
This article explores the development of children’s rights and agency in India through history, law,…
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A Critical Take on Child Activism
In this opportunity, I want to bring forward an example in which the Western idea…
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The Agentic Child: The Dichotomy of Curiosity and Safety in Van de Vendel’s Vosje (2018)
While Van de Vendel and Tolman’s Vosje (2018) is widely praised for its luminous illustrations…
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Children’s Agency: what it means to us
Welcome to SLIDING’s third issue! Read this month’s editorial to learn more about what we…
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Food Literacy: What Children’s Cookbooks Teach About Children’s Position in the World
Children’s cookbooks are a budding but underexplored subsection of children’s literature. More attention should be…
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