Michael Rosen Inaugural Lecture
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Award-winning childrens author and poet Michael Rosen is the latest to take part in the Made in Goldsmiths event series.osen, who is taking up a professorship in the Universitys Department of Educational Studies, is currently developing a new, practical and theoretical MA in Childrens Literature to start in September 2014.There are so many interesting elements to Childrens Literature that perhaps arent obvious; psychological and anthropological elements for example. Childrens Literature is essentially a human practice, its part of how we initiate our children into life, but also how we begin to shape how they think about question what they are doing. Michael Rosen, Britains fifth Childrens Laureate
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