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For the moment, however, there was palpable optimism and determination across the Lincoln Center campus, and the contribution of the Story Pirates to the Restart Stages programming offered a model for how all companies might navigate the months ahead as the Delta and Omicron variants continued to strain the performing arts industry. Tickets to the performance, won by lottery, were accompanied by COVID-19 liability waivers from Lincoln Center. Based on a story shared with the Story Pirates by a second-grader from New York named Michaela, it was called "I Love" and consisted of Michaela (played by Magula) telling the audience how she loves each member of her family, her pets, and a heart.
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When Wickstrom was a child, she had open access to vast shelves of books at her local libraries. Her favorite multistoried library filled an entire block. It was open from 6 a.m. until at least 10 p.m. Even though she frequently browsed the shelves before school and after work, she felt she would never come to the end of it. And new books appeared all the time. No matter where she wandered down aisles and into alcoves, books on topics she'd never thought about demanded to come home with her, called out to be read. Books seemed to jump off the shelves into her hands or summoned her from distant racks. She read about everything from deep-sea pearl diving to the invention of the Dvorak keyboard. One particular librarian at the Hill Street Branch liked to tell her about books she enjoyed. She had the feeling she'd read every book in her branch of the library. She even convinced her to try holding her breath underwater, like the deep-sea pearl divers.
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Sansbury still remember her stomach clenching, losing her breath, horrified by such violence in the community she calls home. On Mar 16, 2021, a mere twelve miles from her school's campus, several Asian American women were shot point-blank and killed. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian hate had been on the rise, but this tragedy literally hit home--and she found herself jolted into action. She knew their school and community had to do something, and she began searching for ideas.
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This chapter investigates the appearance of picturebooks and stories which sought to rapidly mediate the first waves of COVID-19, circulated online to reflect a suddenly socially distanced and locked-down world. We conceptualise this ad hoc archive as an "emergency children's literature” to signify the pedagogical, ritual, and remedial role of storytelling during times of disease and disaster. In this chapter, we introduce this concept and historicise the role of children's literature across 2020. We analyse the international focus of these texts, such as those sponsored and cross-translated by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), before conducting a critical content analysis of approximately thirty picturebooks and stories circulated online for free within British contexts between March 2020 and January 2021. These British-associated texts are mostly self-published, while some are published by mainstream publishers or literacy charities and other educational and official organisations. Building on existing scholarship on the trope of the hero as a health promotional strategy for representing COVID-19 for children, we theorise the aesthetic and formal strategies of these representations, heeding the socio-political contexts which they both emerge from and help to construct in young people's lives. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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Access to green space has always been a social inequity, but the recent global pandemic has exacerbated this injustice for lower-income families even more. Environmental access strengthens mental health, encourages exercise and healthy social habits, and reduces pollution. Many have argued that children not only need play, but they need play in outdoor environments for physical, sociological, and social development. And yet, researchers have reported a dramatic decline in children's outdoor play over the past three decades. As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the world, the author worries about children's access to outdoor spaces. Researchers have argued that people in urban and minoritized communities lack access to quality outdoor spaces near their homes. When gyms, schools, and parks are closed, who gets the privilege of exploring natural spaces? The author set out to determine if recently published children's books depicted outdoor play more frequently than she had found in books as a teacher. Thus, the research question for this study was this: How many award-winning and honor picturebooks published from 1995 to 2020 include depictions of outdoor play, and what does a critical multicultural analysis reveal about these portrayals? The author begins with an overview of critical multiculturalism and ecocriticism, as they undergirded her analysis of 189 award-winning and honor books, and describe some of the literature that supported this critical content analysis. Then, the author describes her process and findings, followed up with a discussion of future considerations for children's literature readers as they examine depictions of outdoor play
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Innovations enabled by nanoscience can transform lives, helping to provide clean drinking water and more sustainable public transport, and driving advances in health and medical research. The vaccine delivers mRNA via lipid nanoparticles, which tells the immune system to produce antibodies to fight COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic was the first time such nanoparticle vaccine technology was manufactured on a global scale, and efforts to educate the public on its safety and efficacy fell behind as governments raced to vaccinate populations.
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In October we met to 'discuss the way forward' as the buzz-phrase has it, and we think we saw one;as in November John Peck delivered an interesting talk on 'Dickens and Science';and in December we braved the Omicron appearance by holding a Christmas meeting, with readings and seasonal refreshments, music provided by member Julie Weaver. ROMA HUSSEY Broadstairs On Saturday 12 February a public event entitled 'Happy Birthday Mr Dickens!' was held at the Pavilion in Broadstairs to celebrate the 210th birthday of Charles Dickens. The Dickens Declaimers performed 'The Jellyby Family' from Bleak House, followed by 'Celebrating a Life', a script consisting of character vignettes as varied as Mr Sapsea, Miss Havisham, Mr Jingle, Louisa Gradgrind and Lady Dedlock amongst others. According to new research, Mr Dick and Miss Havisham were both modelled on two real people who were residing in the area when Dickens visited.
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The emergence of COVID19 and the forced migration of many face-to-face university courses to an online model have led to important changes in the way classes are taught and the programme of activities carried out by students. In the subject Expression Laboratory of the bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Oviedo, the main task was the elaboration and representation or dramatization of a story in the face-to-face classroom. With the confinement decreed because of the pandemic, in the current academic year 2020-2021 it was decided to adapt this activity to a virtual environment, encouraging the use of platforms such as Genially, Prezi or Symbaloo. This article presents a selection of the best stories created by students on these platforms, using the digital album typology. It begins by reviewing the literature on the importance of reading and storytelling in Early Childhood Education, the incorporation of ICT into the traditional album format and the benefits of the musical story, starting from the premise that the subject Expression Laboratory seeks to integrate the contents of Plastic and Musical Expression in the same product. The didactic objectives and the types of activities that were taught in the theoretical classes, in relation to the contents of the 2nd Cycle of Infant Education curriculum, are set out below. The results are presented, detailing the population, number of teams, typology of the stories and a summary of the best projects selected, with a web link to the platform where they are hosted. Finally, a series of conclusions are drawn from the observation of this experience: criteria for the selection of the story by the pupils, advantages and limitations of working in an online environment and the degree of innovation of the proposals.
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A small project of STEAM education called "Innovation for Love and Care" was implemented in a local secondary school in Hong Kong. Four seventh-grade students participated from November 2020 to February 2021. The project aims to integrate humanism into the traditional STEAM curriculum, to stimulate the students' innovation in a people-oriented approach. The project consisted of three modules implemented by means of both online teaching and face-to-face lessons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The responses of the students were very positive. The overall performance has been recognised by the school management team. For the next step, the project team plans to expand the project to all seventh-grade students.