Children's Literature Criticism School trainings, organized in cooperation with Children's Literature and FSMVÜ Social Research Center, have been completed.
When we focus on the issues discussed in the literary public, one of the issues that attracts attention is the discourse of "we have no criticism". When each of the explanations regarding the etymological origin of the word is considered together with its own historical context, the question "What is criticism?" It can be noticed that the thoughts regarding the question were not shaped independently of the cultural codes and aesthetic perception of the period. In a plane where discussions about children's literature or children's literature or even whether there is a separate literature for children are intertwined with the absence of criticism. Children's Literature And FSMVU FULL Children's Literature Criticism School, which is held in collaboration with the Children's Literature Criticism School, invites you, the participants, to an interdisciplinary and critical reading experience, taking into account every work shaped by the motivation "for children". The first module of the school, planned as two modules, started on February 13, 2023! The modules of our program, including the "Critical Reading and Writing" course, where each course had a special structure and targeted project texts with the writing contributions of the participants, were as follows:
Information about Children's Literature Criticism School:
At the end of the course, participants will receive a university-approved certificate.
Courses will be held online through the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University UZEM system.
Course participants will be given the opportunity to watch the recordings throughout the semester.
At the end of the course, a project to turn the outputs into a book will be carried out.
Target audience of the lessons: Parents, educators, students, academicians, etc. (All adults over 18)
Children's Literature I. Term Course Contents:
Children's Cinema for Adults Abdullah Kasay
Week 1: The Relationship between Cinema, Art and Meaning
Week 2: Understanding and Conceptualizing Children's Cinema
Week 3: The Fall (Fall) and Between Dream and Reality
Week 4: Where is My Friend's House? and Lost Simplicity
Week 5: Windy Valley and About the Present
In-depth Children's Literature Readings Efruze Esra Alptekin
Week 1: Children's Literature, Encounter of Self and Other, All in One Tabby his work
Week 2: Difference between Observation and Evaluation, I'm lucky!, I'm unlucky! his work
Week 3: Accepting Observation, Missing Piece
Week 4: Reestablishing Connections in the Network of Society and Production, Space his work
Week 5: Reliving in the Context of the Principle of Hope, Red Tree his work
Ecocritical Children's Literature Readings by Dr. Yasemin Yılmaz Yüksek
Week 1: Introduction to ecocritical literature, garden and tree motifs in literature & nature as a narrative space. Grandma's Yellow Goat – Şafak Okdemir
Week 2: Urbanization and human-nature harmony- Children of Altınçayır Valley – Latife Tekin
Week 3: Human – non-human relationship, Road to the City –Betül Kanbolat, Big Orchestra – Sima Özkan
Week 4: An ecocritical narrative of death and quest- My Grandfather Is a Cherry Tree –Angela Nanetti
Week 5: Intertextuality in ecocritical readings- The Gates of Sekoyana & Kurda Kuşa Asha – Poetic Stone
Sexual Education and Literacy in Children Expert. Psychologist Beyza Özeren
Week 2: 'Did my mother eat my brother?': Defining the developmental characteristics of first level children, examining first level sexual education and privacy education books within the framework of the questions asked at this level. 'Storks never brought me! 'They took me from the neighbor..': Defining the developmental characteristics of second level children, examining second level sexual education and privacy education books within the framework of the questions asked at this level.
Week 3: 'Those who overturned trucks and those whose aunts came...': Defining the developmental characteristics of third and fourth level children, examining third and fourth level sexual education and privacy education books within the framework of the questions asked at this level.
Week 4: 'Talk, my dear. Why are you always silent? What does silence accomplish? Why don't you tell me?'
Week 5: Examining sexual education and privacy education books written for adults. Suggestions for caregivers.
Philosophy Instructor Training for Children Sümeyye Sel Odabaş
Week 1 and 2: Introduction to Philosophy for Children, Why Philosophy for Children? Philosophical Question how come? Problematization, Argumentation, Conceptualization, Different Methods of Philosophy for Children (Lipman, Tozzi, AGSAS-Lévine, Socratique)
Week 3: Philosophy-Art Relationship (Holistic Method Activities) Facilitator's Posture
Presentation and analysis of artistic supports that can be used in a workshop with children (paintings, films, photographs, games…)
Week 4: Philosophy for Children Workshop Preparation Stages: Pedagogical Slips, How to design a workshop?
Week 5: Philosophy Workshop Examples for Children
Gyges' Ring: Good, evil, laws
Workshop examples starting from Thierry Dideu's "Yakouba"
Happiness ? Developing a workshop based on the subject
Thought development starting from the short film “Nobody is normal”
Philosophy Workshop Application for Children (Processing workshop designs of participants)
Making Children's Literature on the Edge of Mythology Dr. Didem Arvas
Week 1: Myths, Archetypes, Legends as the Oldest Forms of Life in Children's Literature
Week 2: Gilgamesh as a Coming of Age Story
Week 3: Legacy of Red Gilgamesh's Footprints in the tale
Week 4: Archetype Relationship with the Unconscious as Theorized by Freud and Jung
Week 5: Finding Archetypes in Children's Animations
Children's Literature: Critical Reading and Writing Meryem Selva İnce
Week 1: What is this "Criticism"?
Week 2: History of Children's Literature and Genres
Week 3: The Wrong of Knowing Too Much: Basic Concepts
Week 4: Readership: Searches and Receptions
Week 5: Can Writing Be Solved?
Children's Literature II. Term Course Contents:
Gizem Bulut- Harry Potter Readings
- Week: Introduction to Fantasy Literature: Fantasy Fiction in the Harry Potter Series- Philosopher's Stone
- Week: Contributions of Fantasy Literature to Our Well-Being- Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban
- Week: In the Context of Initiation Goblet of Fire
- Week: Education and Politics in the Order of the Phoenix
- Week: Interaction between Fantasy Literature and Mythology- The Half-Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows
Hümeyra Demirel Dinler- The Coming of Age in Children's Literature, The Theory and Narrative
- Week: The child's story before Children's Literature; Poetic Tragedy, Bildungsroman, Coming of Age and the change in coming-of-age narratives.
- Week: The theory of growth in poetic tragedy and Bildungsroman. In Goethe, the "spiritual apprentice" child is the "moral development" (moralishe bildung).
- Week: “Growth” as an overarching concept and the inversion of the Bildungsroman in the Modernist novel
- Week: Growth in Ottoman early modern narratives: From Tifli Stories In Sansar Mustafa growth and rape.
- Week: Transformation of suffering into the norm in early modern children's literature: As a coming-of-age novel Pinocchio (1883)
Sümeyye Öztürk Ulu - Visual-Text Relationship in Illustrated Books
- Week: Why a Picture Book? An introduction to picture book studies.
- Week: What is a Picture Book: A historical overview.
- Week: What is a Picture Book: A contextual overview.
- Week: Visual-Text relationship in Picture Books.
- Week: Exceeding Visual-Verbal Boundaries in Picture Books: Postmodern Picture Books.
Dr. Fatma Hazan Türkkol- Media Literacy for Adults
- Week: Introducing basic concepts such as media and media literacy. Remembering mainstream and critical communication theories and their periodical characteristics.
- Week: Definitions and theories of media literacy and approaches to media literacy education.
- Week: Media literacy in the world and in Turkey. Media literacy curriculum and children's and parents' evaluation of content.
- Week: Discussing content for children from a media literacy perspective through examples.
- Week: General evaluation and answering questions.
Dr. Melike Günyüz - Thinking about Children's Literature with Sufism: Basic Motifs and Associations
- Week: Mesnevi First 18 Couples, Concept: Journey/Status of Being on the Road, Book: A Whale-How Does It Fit in a Suitcase, Guridi-Donmedolap, Tülin Kozikoğlu
- Week: Concept: Each person is a different world/different creations, Book: Everybody's Story, Kristin Roskifte - Maybe, Kobi Yamada
- Week: Concept: Good and Evil, Knowing everything through its opposite, Book: I'm Lucky, I'm Unlucky, Thomas Halling - Black and White Story, M. Tunç Atalay
- Week: Concept: The power of the word and the importance of the mentor, Book: Mr. Peabody's Apples, Madonna - Dot, Peter Raynold
- Week: Concept: Seeing, perceiving, Book: It's All a Tabby, Brendan Wenzel - Fish is Fish, Leo Lioni - The Wall, Frederic Maupome - The Little Mouse and the Red Wall, Biritta Teckentrup
Naime Erkovan - Children's Literature and Social Movements
- Week: A general introduction to social movements and their reflections on children's literature.
- Week: Tevfik Fikret's Shermin dreams of change emphasized in his poems.
- Week: Muallim Naci's Ömer's Childhood social life reflected in his work.
- Week: Aysegul vs. Fadish.
- Week: by Feyza Hepçilingirler Fairy Tale Breaker Aunt Feride His work and gender.
Ümit Yaşar Özkan - Comic Book Readings
- Week: Introduction to comics (What comics are and what they are not, the history of comics and the main comic schools in the world and in Turkey, comics culture and children in the world and in Turkey), Mystic – Space Kids
- Week: American School (Superheroes from comics to cinema), Black Panther (2018)
- Week: Italian School (Fumetti: Italian western, fantasy, science fiction), Berardi- Milazzo-Ken Parker- Breath and Dream
- Week: Francophone School (Humor, History and Adventure), Herge- Tintin in Tibet
- Week: Comics, Graphic novels and Manga, Hayao Miyazaki- Windy Valley (1984)