TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning To Be Seen
T2 - The Depiction of Encounters Between Israeli and Newcomer Children In Children’s Literature
AU - Golden, Deborah
AU - Drubetskoy, Tatyana
N1 - doi: 10.1080/14675980500378565
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Books written for and about children may serve to convey central cultural tenets to new members of society. This paper looks at the depiction of encounters between newcomer and locally born children in contemporary Hebrew literature aimed at teenage readers and presents the major resources and practices by means of which the newcomer protagonists are portrayed as coming to find their place in the new society. The paper suggests that, rather than introducing Israeli?born readers to newcomer cultures, as might be expected in the current ideological climate of cultural pluralism, these books serve as a means of conveying to children and young people socially sanctioned modes of coming to belong to Israeli society.
AB - Books written for and about children may serve to convey central cultural tenets to new members of society. This paper looks at the depiction of encounters between newcomer and locally born children in contemporary Hebrew literature aimed at teenage readers and presents the major resources and practices by means of which the newcomer protagonists are portrayed as coming to find their place in the new society. The paper suggests that, rather than introducing Israeli?born readers to newcomer cultures, as might be expected in the current ideological climate of cultural pluralism, these books serve as a means of conveying to children and young people socially sanctioned modes of coming to belong to Israeli society.
U2 - 10.1080/14675980500378565
DO - 10.1080/14675980500378565
M3 - Article
SN - 1467-5986
VL - 16
SP - 481
EP - 494
JO - Intercultural Education
JF - Intercultural Education
IS - 5
ER -