Bücher für die Demokratie – Lesetipps mit Jana Mikota: Online-Buchvorstellung

In the organizer's words:

What opportunities does children's and young people's literature open up for negotiating and reflecting on democracy and democratic coexistence? Literary representations in particular are diverse, changeable and offer great potential for talking to children and young people about democracy. Selected examples are used to show that literary representations and aspects of literary learning in particular can initiate democratic coexistence.

Jana Mikota teaches and researches at the University of Siegen. Her research focuses on (children's and youth) literature as well as historical and current reading and canon research. She is currently working on projects in the fields of multilingualism, cultural ecology and puppet literature. She has already published in the field of children's and young adult literature and on women writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries.