The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literature
The aim of this paper is to analyze the representations of school and syllabus divulged by the Harry Potter book series. Successful all around the world, this series consists of seven books telling the adventures of a boy who, at 11 years of age, discovers himself to be a wizard, being sent to Hogwa...
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Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
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| author | Maria Carolina da Silva Marlucy Alves Paraíso |
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| description | The aim of this paper is to analyze the representations of school and syllabus divulged by the Harry Potter book series. Successful all around the world, this series consists of seven books telling the adventures of a boy who, at 11 years of age, discovers himself to be a wizard, being sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he learns to use his magic powers. Based on the post-structuralist Cultural Studies, I consider the representation not only presents a reality, but pushes actively for its construction. The claim developed is that the school ideally understood by the books is the one serving as home to teachers and students, safe, and grouping the students according to their skills and individual features. The curricular model divulged by the series is a fusion between the scientific syllabus and the practical one. Having in mind the comprehensiveness of the books, it is important to understand how education has been divulged in a non-school cultural product addressed to young people. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3015b842c70e4aee851e9f25a00851502022-12-22T03:48:43ZporUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita FilhoEducação: Teoria e Prática1517-98691981-81062012-01-01223999116The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literatureMaria Carolina da SilvaMarlucy Alves ParaísoThe aim of this paper is to analyze the representations of school and syllabus divulged by the Harry Potter book series. Successful all around the world, this series consists of seven books telling the adventures of a boy who, at 11 years of age, discovers himself to be a wizard, being sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he learns to use his magic powers. Based on the post-structuralist Cultural Studies, I consider the representation not only presents a reality, but pushes actively for its construction. The claim developed is that the school ideally understood by the books is the one serving as home to teachers and students, safe, and grouping the students according to their skills and individual features. The curricular model divulged by the series is a fusion between the scientific syllabus and the practical one. Having in mind the comprehensiveness of the books, it is important to understand how education has been divulged in a non-school cultural product addressed to young people.http://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/4315/4340Syllabus. Cultural pedagogy. Representation. |
| spellingShingle | Maria Carolina da Silva Marlucy Alves Paraíso The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literature Educação: Teoria e Prática Syllabus. Cultural pedagogy. Representation. |
| title | The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literature |
| title_full | The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literature |
| title_fullStr | The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literature |
| title_short | The Harry Potter’s Syllabus: representations of school and syllabus in children’s and adolescent literature |
| title_sort | harry potter s syllabus representations of school and syllabus in children s and adolescent literature |
| topic | Syllabus. Cultural pedagogy. Representation. |
| url | http://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/4315/4340 |
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