Emerging role of media as the language art in children's literature in Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorAgalo, Jerry
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-21T10:12:29Z
dc.date.available2020-01-21T10:12:29Z
dc.date.issued2012-01
dc.descriptionPeer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso, Volume 4, Issue 1, Jan 2012, p. 25 - 36en_US
dc.description.abstractThe growing need to understand a Kenyan child in learning situations today indeed broadens our quest to understand literacy and related text forms associated with information and multimedia technologies. Media today constitute socialization avenues for children in the contemporary society. They play a relation in family and school life for children regarding children’s socialization and cultural transformation. Therefore there is a need to harness the benefits of the 21st century information technologies in children’s learning. The paper’s main concern is on media’s symbolic meaning involving interpretation, negotiations and making compromises for potential meaning of representational forms. Firstly it recognizes how media have meshed into contemporary society. Therefore we are pedagogically faced with presentation problems in children’s literature where African values, beliefs and codes of behaviour can be inculcated. Secondly it argues that children’s literature calls for a rethinking, such that it is made ‘integrative’ and new media such as television, videos, and internet use areen_US
dc.identifier.citationAgalo, J., 2012. Emerging role of media as the language art in children’s literature in Kenya. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(1), pp.25-36.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-2815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/1929
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectPedagogyen_US
dc.subjectLiteracy Skillsen_US
dc.subjectMultimedia technologyen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.subjectChildren's Educationen_US
dc.titleEmerging role of media as the language art in children's literature in Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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