Scientific studies on children’s literature and its didactics: a literature review (2000- 2014)

Abstract

This paper is a bibliographic review of the scientific studies published from 2000 to 2014 on children's literature and its tea­ching. The data analyzed show the number of the scientific studies which have focused on children's litera­ture and its educational use and their evolution over these 14 years, the list of lea­ding scientific journals where these studies are published, the list of researchers who mostly have devoted to the scientific study of children's literature and its teaching be­tween 2000 and 2014 and the main thematic areas of scientific study on children's lite­rature and its teaching in this period. This bibliographic review allows us to state that the most studied research lines focuses on authors, titles and genres of children's lite­rature. They are all analyzed from different points of view, although there are other pro­minent lines such as the instructional use of children's literature and literacy for the younger student population and the analysis of stereotyping gender in children's litera­ture texts.