A Place for Science in Colombian Children’s Literature: A Minimum Corpus for Its Study
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.350573Keywords:
Children’s literature, science, technology, science popularization, cultural heritageAbstract
The studies on Colombian children’s literature do not include science as one of its dominant themes. This silence becomes enigmatic: is it due to science actually being absent? To answer the question, this article starts by highlighting science’s place in children’s literature in general and then proposes a corpus of Colombian works. The corpus is sufficiently ample to conclude that science is a dominant theme in Colombian children’s literature. The silence seems to respond to a lack of academic interest, rather than a real absence in the group of works.
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