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Theme (narrative)
About: Theme (narrative) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13050 publications have been published within this topic receiving 159511 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theme.
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01 Sep 1991
TL;DR: Lehr as discussed by the authors found that children can and do talk about what they know, think, and perceive in the books they hear and read, and that children have a sense of theme in the stories they read or hear.
Abstract: Do young children have a sense of theme in the stories they read or hear? Can they talk about themes in books? Piaget believed that children below the age of 7 and 8 were incapable of critical thinking and Applebee that young children lack the ability to generate themes for narrative. In a series of studies of preschool, kindergarten, second-, and fourth-grade children, Susan Lehr challenges these long-held views. She finds that children can and do talk about what they know, think, and perceive in the books they hear and read. The central focus of Lehr's research is the child's perspective of meaning, which she explores by discussing in depth what children have to say in response to the books they share. The author discusses the child's sense of theme in relation to critical thinking, the use of well-written literature, and the reading process.
70 citations
TL;DR: With the end of the cold war, national defense has given way to international competitiveness as the theme for federal support of research, which will probably not work well.
Abstract: With the end of the cold war, national defense has given way to international competitiveness as the theme for federal support of research. As it now stands, the idea will probably not work well.
70 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the idea that children can extract the theme from a moral story and test for developmental differences in moral theme comprehension and find that children understand the lessons from several moral stories.
Abstract: Although some claim that reading moral stories to children will improve their moral literacy (see, e.g., Bennett, 1993), little research has been done that bears on this question. The purposes of this study were to (a) test the idea that children can extract the theme from a moral story and (b) test for developmental differences in moral theme comprehension. Participants from 3rd and 5th grades and a university were tested on whether they understood the lessons (i.e., the moral themes) from several moral stories. They were asked to identify both the theme from a list of message choices and which of 4 alternative vignettes had the same theme. Participants also rated the set of message and vignette choices for closeness of match to the original story. Reading comprehension was used as a covariate. Developmental differences in moral theme understanding were significant even after accounting for reading comprehension.
70 citations
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30 Jun 2005
TL;DR: In this article, a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of the environment are presented. But the essays deal with the physical reality of the environments such as the city, the shore, the water but also with the virtual environment and the social one.
Abstract: These essays comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of the environment. The essays deal with the physical reality of the environment such as the city, the shore, the water but also with the virtual environment and the social one.
69 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a significant chain of allusions in the letter's opening to Tacitus' Agricola, as well as to Cicero, Ovid and Seneca are discussed.
Abstract: Epistles 8.14, one of Pliny's longest letters, has been widely dismissed as a clumsy combination of two ill-fitting stretches of prose. This article demonstrates a significant chain of allusions in the letter's opening to Tacitus’ Agricola, as well as to Cicero, Ovid and Seneca; it shows how Pliny prompts such a reading in the surrounding Epistles 8.13 and 8.15; and, through consideration of the diptych form and the theme of slavery, it demonstrates the letter's pivotal role as centrepiece to Book 8.
69 citations