Almost Astronauts and the Pursuit of Reliability in Children’s Nonfiction

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• 作者：Joe Sutliff Sanders
• 关键词：Nonfiction ; Almost Astronauts ; Critical engagement ; Critical literacy ; Childhood of famous Americans ; Marc Aronson ; Paulo Freire ; Tanya Lee Stone
• 刊名：Children's Literature in Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：46
• 期：4
• 页码：378-393
• 全文大小：401 KB
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• 作者单位：Joe Sutliff Sanders (1)
  
  1. Department of English, Kansas State University, 108 English & Counseling Services Bldg, Manhattan, KS, 66506-6501, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Linguistics
  Languages and Literature
  Language Education
  Education
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1693

文摘

A recent surge of conversation about children’s nonfiction reveals a conflict between two positions that do not at first appear to be opposed: modeling inquiry and presenting authoritative facts. Tanya Lee Stone, the author of the Sibert Award-winning Almost Astronauts (2009), has recently alluded to that tension and expressed a preference for nonfiction that is reliable. This essay takes Almost Astronauts as a test case, focusing especially on how it portrays its original research and its two key characters: Jerrie Cobb and Jackie Cochran. The essay uses these examples to argue that in pursuing reliability, Almost Astronauts suppresses complexity and opportunities to model inquiry, thereby sacrificing both critical engagement and accuracy. Keywords Nonfiction Almost Astronauts Critical engagement Critical literacy Childhood of famous Americans Marc Aronson Paulo Freire Tanya Lee Stone