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Futures for Children's Literature: Evolution or radical break?

2000; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03057640050005807

1469-3577

Peter Hunt,

Child Development and Digital Technology

As electronic media increasingly dominate narratives for children, not merely the form or the content but the very nature of narrative is changing. Future narratives for the 'computer reader', using the Internet and multimedia may seem to be no more nor less than individual, unassessable chaos. But these readers still need to subsist in a linear educational system and teachers will have to negotiate the profound intellectual shift that the mediation between old and new narratives implies. At the most basic level this will involve revising what we mean to be 'literate' and to be a 'good reader'.