Sensitive issues and children′s literature
Noreen Wetton
(Deputy Director of the Best of Health Project, funded by the Health Education Authority in the Health Education Unit at Southampton University)
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Abstract
Summarizes the differences between what adults perceive as sensitive issues affecting children′s well‐being and what children perceive as sensitive issues. Describes how children′s literature can be used to help children develop language to describe their feelings. Explains how different stories can make it possible to explore characters′ feelings and our own feelings, and how they can be used as starting‐points for talking to children about sensitive situations, feelings and relationships.
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Citation
Wetton, N. (1995), "Sensitive issues and children′s literature", Health Education, Vol. 95 No. 1, pp. 12-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654289510075045
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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