Interesting facts: holistic interviews on children’s nonfiction engagement
We conducted creative in-depth interviews in which children reflected on their factual interests and on the activities through which they nurture them. They also designed imaginary nonfiction books.
Children’s imagining about facts
In this philosophy of imagination blog post, Anežka Kuzmičová reflects on WONDRE’s goals in terms of the distinction between so-called transcendent and instructive imagining.
Children’s perspectives on being absorbed when reading fiction: a Q methodology study
Children sorted cards expressing different aspects of being “lost in a book.” We found four distinct reader perspectives: Growth, Confirmation, Attachment and Mental Shift.
Exploring children’s embodied story experiences: a toolkit for research and practice
Attending to one’s body brings many benefits but children are rarely asked about how texts affect them in bodily terms. We developed a toolkit enabling children’s reflection on this topic.
Different fiction genres take children’s memories to different places
We examined children’s responses to their favourite books and found that different genres invoke distinct types of memories, depending on degree of adventure vs. relationships and realism vs. fantasy.
Complex characters of many kinds? Gendered representation of inner states in reading anthologies
We developed a procedure for examining what types of characters are represented in children’s texts and through what experiences, and found deep gender imbalances in our sample of Czech anthologies.