Writers and Tirbians: Children’s stories are a way to instill nature of nature and environmental awareness
Sharjah, May 3 / WAM / Participants in the “Nature Stories” session, which was held within the activities of the Sharjah Reading Festival for Children at the Expo Sharjah Center, emphasized that children’s literature can play a pivotal role in instilling nature of nature, enhancing curiosity, critical thinking and developing environmental awareness of young people through stories that simulate their world and touch their imagination in a close language and striking scenes.
The speakers stressed the importance of providing environmental information within a fun fictional narration that helps the child to understand the interdependence between living organisms and nature, and urges him to take responsibility towards the planet in which he lives.
The American writer and painter Brendan Winzl and the Egyptian educational writer d. Ihab Al -Qastawi, the Emirati writer and teacher Fatima Salem Al -Suwaidi, where each of them presented his own experience in mixing imagination and environmental inspiration and the importance of directing literature towards enhancing the emotional and mental relationship between the child and nature.
Writers specialized in child literature emphasized that writing for the child today requires a deep understanding of his psychological and social needs and a balance between benefit and pleasure and that the good story should open the doors of discovery and give him safety in the face of the difficulties of reality and considered that nature, school and even humor constitute rich elements to build influential stories that reflect the child’s world and touch his feelings, especially for immigrant children who live between two cultures Without losing their roots.
This came during a dialogue session entitled “Drafting stories that address children today”, which hosted Dr. Bayan Amr, the novelist specialized in child literature and academic lecturer in a number of universities and Australian writer Andrea Rohr, who has a number of best -selling children’s books and British writer of Pakistani origin, Maryam Hassan.
A number of writers and researchers emphasized that the development of emotional intelligence in children from an early age plays a pivotal role in building their personalities and enhancing their ability to understand self and sympathy for others and dealing with life challenges consciously and flexible, noting that dialogue and interaction with children are two effective tools to enhance this type of intelligence and enable children to express their feelings in a healthy way.
This came during a dialogue session entitled “Development of Emotional Intelligence from an early age” that was held within the activities of the 16th session of the Sharjah Reading Festival for the Child, in which the Indian writer and creative content maker Farun Dogirla and Kuwaiti writer Sarah Al Dhafiri, researcher and Emirati writer in the field of emotional intelligence Maya Al Hawari participated.
Within the educational and recreational workshops that the Sharjah Reading Festival for Children, an interactive workshop entitled “The Pulse of Life” was held targeting the definition of children with the mechanism of work of the heart and its functions through a simplified scientific experience using home tools available.
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