Literary and environmental education with non-fiction picture books

Strategies that facilitate cognitive and emotional responses

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literary education; environmental education; eco-literature; nonfiction picture books; teaching strategies

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This paper analyzes the textual and graphic discursive keys of two non-fiction picture books focused on nature from the award-winning collection “Los ciclos del universo”, by Zahori Books. Infinito (2020) and Opposites (2021) present similar proposals that allow cognitive and emotional factors. This proposal develops a case study of a didactic intervention that combines dialogue strategies (Tough, 1976) with active methodologies strategies (Goodwin et al., 2019) to promote sustainable literary and environmental education in line with the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs facilitating both cognitive and emotional responses. This research also constitutes a cycle of broader research, which included a previous study (Cristóbal and Sanjuán, 2023) and which is being continued during the year 2024 with a mixed methodology research in two classrooms with two others later books from the same collection. This cycle has allowed us to confirm the adequacy of these works both from a cognitive and emotional point of view. Likewise, a progressive assimilation, both cognitive and emotional, has been observed and an improvement in the response between the two phases of this proposal when it comes to differentiating between facts, questions, feelings and personal connections.

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2024-10-31

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Cristóbal Hornillos , R. ., Muela Bermejo, D., & Escrig Aparicio , J. A. . (2024). Literary and environmental education with non-fiction picture books: Strategies that facilitate cognitive and emotional responses. Prisma Social Journal, (47), 200–218. Retrieved from https://revistaprismasocial.es/ps/article/view/5394

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No. 47 (2024): La actividad dinamizadora de las mujeres en el ámbito local

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