MA Children’s Literature and Literacies

Lincoln Bishop University

Course summary: The MA in Children's Literature and Literacies gives you an opportunity to deepen your passion for literature written for children through research-led modules that engage with emerging frameworks and debates. Supported by a team of academic specialists, you will investigate theories of literacy development, and the learning and reading experiences of children and young people through interdisciplinary, inclusive, and current approaches. In this course will critically explore ‘classic’ texts and contemporary publications across a range of genres, ranging from poetry, picture books and non-fiction to graphic novels and digital applications, aimed at readers from 0-18. You will examine the nature of literacy and literature in a digital age, their current existence and future directions. This Master's degree will foster your academic capabilities and individual interests through conceptual and empirical research.About this course: The MA Children’s Literature and Literacies is a vibrant, wide-ranging degree course that offers professional development and academic progression by enhancing subject and research expertise in these interdisciplinary fields of study. Informed by current scholarship, research, and practice, it provides you an opportunity to develop in-depth and advanced knowledge and understanding of children’s literature and literacy through both wide-ranging and diverse specialist modules, culminating in an independent research project (MA dissertation) that reflects your individual ambition and aspirations, your engagement with conceptual and empirical research and critical reflective approaches to research methods and professional situations, both practical and theoretical.This MA aims to develop a broad, inclusive, critical and contemporary understanding of literacies, including the range of digital, visual and interactive texts available to children and young people and the influence of these on their learning experiences. It gives you an opportunity to deepen your passion for literature written for children through research-led modules that engage with emerging frameworks and debates. It equips you with a wider understanding of current research methodologies and critical and theoretical frameworks, to sustain and further your independent research and topic interests and questions.

Lincoln Bishop University