Changing Trends in Bedtime Story Reading Habits of Children: A Comparative Study of African and European Children’s Literature
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Date
2020
Authors
Duhoe, Alberta Aseye Ama
Adansi, Joana Emefa
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Publisher
Royallite Global
Abstract
Children are often inspired by tales, rhymes and songs of various
kinds globally. Mostly, children in developed countries are
exposed to cartoons online and puzzles that tell stories. Before
the emergence of modern technology in Africa, parents and
teachers spent time with children under ten years telling them
stories that were so inspiring and motivating. Children used
those moments to build on their vocabularies and also learn
great deal of lessons from such stories. Today, technological
advancement has influenced the moments that children share
with their teachers and parents in listening to stories. Hard
copies of bedtime stories with attractive pictorial presentations
on some events in the content and on the cover gradually
replaced the traditional way of sending these stories across to
children. The study adopted a desktop literature review method
(desk study). This study further used a humanistic approach to
textual analysis while researching and writing this essay,
compared to a behavioral approach, which would involve
evaluating the bedtime story reading habits of children with the
influence of changing trends in technology. The drawing and
interpretation of observations and sense which is not a
quantitative impact evaluation, was important in this context.
Description
A research article published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing and World Literatures
Keywords
African, bedtime story reading, children, European, Literature
Citation
Duhoe, A. A. A., & Adansi, J. E. (2020). Changing Trends in Bedtime Story Reading Habits of Children: A Comparative Study of African and European Children’s Literature. Journal of Postcolonial Writing and World Literatures, 1(1), 65-81.