Abstract
Story is a powerful vehicle for teaching resilience skills. Strong female archetypes in stories demonstrate qualities of resilience that offer models of how to face adversity, survive it, and thrive. Drawing on psychoanalytic, resiliency, reader response, and Storyworld Possible Selves theories, this work explores the relationship between strong female characters in children’s literature and resilience skills, and explains ways in which analyzing, discussing, and writing about them can help to build emotional competencies that will last a lifetime.
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Tovey, Shannon
(2023)
"Arrows of Resilience: Teaching the Artemis Archetype in Children’s Literature,"
Literacy Practice and Research: Vol. 48:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lpr/vol48/iss1/1
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