Forever young: Childhoods, fairy tales and philosophy

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Forever young: Childhoods, fairy tales and philosophy

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University of Waikato

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Fairy tales play a substantial role in the shaping of childhoods. Developed into stories and played out in picture books, films and tales, they are powerful instruments that influence conceptions and treatments of the child and childhoods. This article argues that traditional fairy tales and contemporary stories derived from them use complex means to mould the ways that children live and experience their childhoods. This argument is illustrated through representations of childhoods and childr...

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Research paper

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Journal article

Date created

2016

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Tesar, Marek / Kupferman, David W. / Rodriguez, Sophia / Arndt, Sonja Kathrina

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10270

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childhood / philosophy / fairy tales / stories / picture books

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