Children’s literature mirrored by scholarly educational journals

Abstract

The paper is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of German literary production for young readers in educational review in the period 2000-2010. The Author has used German data-base FIS-Bildung, the first access to academic news in the field of “Bildungsforschung”, obviously also for Literature for children. Thanks to specific passwords – as “Kinderliteratur”, “Jugendliteratur” and “Zeitschriftenartikel” – researchers can obtain a list of articles. The results analyze shows that literature for children’s not an important aspect in the field of educational research, because, generally, the attention to this topic is related  to school practice.