Mphil in education critical approaches to children in University of cambridge

This thematic route concentrates on a wide range of fiction for children, including the classics , texts for very young readers, international literature and novels for young adults. Close textual study and the history of children's literature are embedded within the route, on which students will also be expected to engage with some of the key debates in the field and to consider a range of theoretical perspectives from Romanticism to reader-response theory; gender issues to posthumanism; historical studies to new historicim; sociocultural viewpoints to semiotics as well as examining critically views of young readers and their reading choices. The course is organised to include four modules: Texts, Contexts and Childhood; Perspective on Children's Literature; Visual Texts; and Texts and Readers.

A first-class or high 2.i degree, IELTS of 7.5, TOEFL ibT of 110, CAE Grade A or B with at least 193 in each individual element, CPE Grade A, B, or C with at least 200 in each individual element, Two academic references, Transcript, Written task, Reasons for applying

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