A Research on Children's Literature and Its Status in Teacher Training

Abstract

This contribution presents research on children's literature and the training of educators. This discipline is fundamental to the education of children, as it is the gateway from adult knowledge to the cognitive and emotional development of the youngest children. Using a survey-type methodology, research was carried out with students of the bachelor's degree in teaching specialising in early childhood and primary education at the University of Murcia, Spain. Besides learning about thinking in teaching, the interest of the study lay in comparing the results of the two specialisations in order to check whether attitudes to children's literature are different according to the type of study pursued. The conclusions show that there are differences in attitudes and thinking, with primary education teachers' perception of children's literature being less restrictive in terms of the concept than early childhood education teachers.