Clémentine Beauvais
Biographic Data
| ID | 218717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clémentine Beauvais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clémentine |
| FAMILY NAME | Beauvais |
| SIGNATURE | BEAUVAIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5854-4866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Great “Activity Book” Activity Article
This fun, scholarly, and activity-packed article takes readers on a quest to find out what activity books for children might be, how they could be theorized, and how to study them empirically. As this is (mostly) uncharted territory, readers will need to display audacity and creativity as they puzzle over existing theories of picturebooks and informational texts, wander through the mazes of corpus selection and data analysis, and attempt to spot …
Pour référence future
Resume :De nombreux albums pour enfants font référence, de la simple allusion au pastiche, à des sources encore inconnues de leur jeune lectorat ; l’intertextualité à retardement ou achronologique, caractérisée par une reconnaissance de la source postérieure à la rencontre de l’allusion, est donc la norme plutôt que l’exception dans les expériences enfantines de lecture. Quel peut donc être le rôle d’une référence prévue pour n’être pas reconnue …
Pseudophotographs in Children’s Literature
This article proposes to theorize the study of pseudophotographs as a subtype of photoliterature studies. Pseudophotographs are any illustrations understood within the context of a picturebook or graphic novel to be representations of photographs. This article attempts to define this undertheorized graphic object, to discuss its various functions, and to analyse what pseudophotographs can tell us about how real photographs and photography are con…
A is for Aesthetics
This introduction presents the special issue on baby books, and summarises the various articles
Literature's Children
We actually created a good mood!’
This paper presents findings from observations of literary translation workshops with secondary-school MFL pupils, revolving around a literary translation from L2 to L1 which does not require pre-existing language skills in the L2. Our research questions were: what skills do pupils mobilise when they work in groups on a literary translation? What can we say of the pupils’ engagement and motivation? The data shows that pupils mobilise three catego…
The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature
A collection of newly-commissioned essays tracing cutting-edge developments in children’s literature research Time has passed since ‘having a PhD in children’s literature’ was a funny joke in You’ve Got Mail . Children’s literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead – as children’s writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and rese…
Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature
Teacher, Tester, Soldier, Spy
This article focuses on teachers in the discourses of early twentieth-century proponents of intelligence testing in America. Teachers were often a targeted enemy in the academic literature on intelligence testing—their methods belittled, their unreliability emphasized. Yet, in part because teachers were essential for intelligence tests to be given in schools, they were also often talked about in more ambiguous ways. In particular, this paper argu…
An exploration of the 'pushy parent' label in educational discourse
This article explores the ideological function of the derogatory label of ‘pushy parent’, which, since the 1980s, has been used considerably in journalistic, popular, political and academic discourses in the UK and the USA. ‘Pushy parent’ is not a descriptive term, but a conceptually vague label implying the existence of antagonistic agents intent on optimising their children's educational attainment. This label, it is argued here, masks structur…
A Reappraisal of Children’s ‘Potential’
What does it mean for a child to fulfil his or her potential? This article explores the contexts and implications of the much-used concept of potential in educational discourses. We claim that many of the popular, political and educational uses of the term in relation to childhood have a problematic blind spot: interpersonality, and the necessary coexistence for the concept to be receivable of all children’s ‘potentials’. Rather than advocating a…
Californian genius
This article pays attention to the regional embeddedness of early research on giftedness, looking principally at the works of Lewis Terman and his peers, between the 1910s and 1930s. The rhetoric, ideology, and aesthetics of giftedness in those early works were, I argue, stamped by the context and imaginary of Progressive-Era California and shaped by the institutional politics and academic ambitions of Stanford University at the time. Giftedness,…
Simone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguity of Childhood
This article explores Simone de Beauvoir's conceptualization of childhood and its importance for her existentialist thought. Beauvoir's theorization of childhood, I argue, offers a sophisticated portrayal of the child and of the adult-child relationship: the child is not a normal 'other' for the adult, but what I call a temporal other, perceived by adults as an ambiguous being; in turn, childhood is conceptualized as the origin of the ambiguity o…
The 'Mozart Effect
This article examines the 'scientific legend' of the 'Mozart Effect', which grew to become a large-scale cultural phenomenon with political ramifications, focused on early childhood education, during the 1990s and early 2000s in the United States. The search for the 'Mozart Effect' and its commercial exploitation followed the finding by Rauscher et al. (1993) that listening to Mozart's music could improve performance on specific tasks of the Stan…
We actually created a good mood!’
This paper presents findings from observations of literary translation workshops with secondary-school MFL pupils, revolving around a literary translation from L2 to L1 which does not require pre-existing language skills in the L2. Our research questions were: what skills do pupils mobilise when they work in groups on a literary translation? What can we say of the pupils’ engagement and motivation? The data shows that pupils mobilise three catego…
Teacher, Tester, Soldier, Spy
This article focuses on teachers in the discourses of early twentieth-century proponents of intelligence testing in America. Teachers were often a targeted enemy in the academic literature on intelligence testing—their methods belittled, their unreliability emphasized. Yet, in part because teachers were essential for intelligence tests to be given in schools, they were also often talked about in more ambiguous ways. In particular, this paper argu…
An exploration of the 'pushy parent' label in educational discourse
This article explores the ideological function of the derogatory label of ‘pushy parent’, which, since the 1980s, has been used considerably in journalistic, popular, political and academic discourses in the UK and the USA. ‘Pushy parent’ is not a descriptive term, but a conceptually vague label implying the existence of antagonistic agents intent on optimising their children's educational attainment. This label, it is argued here, masks structur…
Simone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguity of Childhood
This article explores Simone de Beauvoir's conceptualization of childhood and its importance for her existentialist thought. Beauvoir's theorization of childhood, I argue, offers a sophisticated portrayal of the child and of the adult-child relationship: the child is not a normal 'other' for the adult, but what I call a temporal other, perceived by adults as an ambiguous being; in turn, childhood is conceptualized as the origin of the ambiguity o…
The 'Mozart Effect
This article examines the 'scientific legend' of the 'Mozart Effect', which grew to become a large-scale cultural phenomenon with political ramifications, focused on early childhood education, during the 1990s and early 2000s in the United States. The search for the 'Mozart Effect' and its commercial exploitation followed the finding by Rauscher et al. (1993) that listening to Mozart's music could improve performance on specific tasks of the Stan…
Simone de Beauvoir and the Ambiguity of Childhood
This article explores Simone de Beauvoir's conceptualization of childhood and its importance for her existentialist thought. Beauvoir's theorization of childhood, I argue, offers a sophisticated portrayal of the child and of the adult-child relationship: the child is not a normal 'other' for the adult, but what I call a temporal other, perceived by adults as an ambiguous being; in turn, childhood is conceptualized as the origin of the ambiguity o…
The 'Mozart Effect
This article examines the 'scientific legend' of the 'Mozart Effect', which grew to become a large-scale cultural phenomenon with political ramifications, focused on early childhood education, during the 1990s and early 2000s in the United States. The search for the 'Mozart Effect' and its commercial exploitation followed the finding by Rauscher et al. (1993) that listening to Mozart's music could improve performance on specific tasks of the Stan…
A Reappraisal of Children’s ‘Potential’
What does it mean for a child to fulfil his or her potential? This article explores the contexts and implications of the much-used concept of potential in educational discourses. We claim that many of the popular, political and educational uses of the term in relation to childhood have a problematic blind spot: interpersonality, and the necessary coexistence for the concept to be receivable of all children’s ‘potentials’. Rather than advocating a…
Californian genius
This article pays attention to the regional embeddedness of early research on giftedness, looking principally at the works of Lewis Terman and his peers, between the 1910s and 1930s. The rhetoric, ideology, and aesthetics of giftedness in those early works were, I argue, stamped by the context and imaginary of Progressive-Era California and shaped by the institutional politics and academic ambitions of Stanford University at the time. Giftedness,…
The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature
A collection of newly-commissioned essays tracing cutting-edge developments in children’s literature research Time has passed since ‘having a PhD in children’s literature’ was a funny joke in You’ve Got Mail . Children’s literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education, and has a bright future ahead – as children’s writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people, and rese…
Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature
Teacher, Tester, Soldier, Spy
This article focuses on teachers in the discourses of early twentieth-century proponents of intelligence testing in America. Teachers were often a targeted enemy in the academic literature on intelligence testing—their methods belittled, their unreliability emphasized. Yet, in part because teachers were essential for intelligence tests to be given in schools, they were also often talked about in more ambiguous ways. In particular, this paper argu…
An exploration of the 'pushy parent' label in educational discourse
This article explores the ideological function of the derogatory label of ‘pushy parent’, which, since the 1980s, has been used considerably in journalistic, popular, political and academic discourses in the UK and the USA. ‘Pushy parent’ is not a descriptive term, but a conceptually vague label implying the existence of antagonistic agents intent on optimising their children's educational attainment. This label, it is argued here, masks structur…
Literature's Children
We actually created a good mood!’
This paper presents findings from observations of literary translation workshops with secondary-school MFL pupils, revolving around a literary translation from L2 to L1 which does not require pre-existing language skills in the L2. Our research questions were: what skills do pupils mobilise when they work in groups on a literary translation? What can we say of the pupils’ engagement and motivation? The data shows that pupils mobilise three catego…
A is for Aesthetics
This introduction presents the special issue on baby books, and summarises the various articles
Pour référence future
Resume :De nombreux albums pour enfants font référence, de la simple allusion au pastiche, à des sources encore inconnues de leur jeune lectorat ; l’intertextualité à retardement ou achronologique, caractérisée par une reconnaissance de la source postérieure à la rencontre de l’allusion, est donc la norme plutôt que l’exception dans les expériences enfantines de lecture. Quel peut donc être le rôle d’une référence prévue pour n’être pas reconnue …
Pseudophotographs in Children’s Literature
This article proposes to theorize the study of pseudophotographs as a subtype of photoliterature studies. Pseudophotographs are any illustrations understood within the context of a picturebook or graphic novel to be representations of photographs. This article attempts to define this undertheorized graphic object, to discuss its various functions, and to analyse what pseudophotographs can tell us about how real photographs and photography are con…
The Great “Activity Book” Activity Article
This fun, scholarly, and activity-packed article takes readers on a quest to find out what activity books for children might be, how they could be theorized, and how to study them empirically. As this is (mostly) uncharted territory, readers will need to display audacity and creativity as they puzzle over existing theories of picturebooks and informational texts, wander through the mazes of corpus selection and data analysis, and attempt to spot …
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