Academic Associate, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Doctoral Candidate in Gujarat University. Email: shilpa.literature@gmail.com
Online published on 3 January, 2013.
Interdisciplinarity as a means of learning is an area of debate. It is not merely a placing of disciplines side-by-side but integrating them to produce an intellectual body of knowledge. My paper will focus on how children's literature that seek to provide rudimentary business skills to children blends two different disciplines-Children's literature and management. The purpose is to determine the benefits of fictional representation of business aptitude in children's literature. Text, image and colour fuse to produce a speciality that can be traditionally termed children's literature but goes beyond the convention of mere myths, fantasy and fairy tale features. As a matter of fact, writers have dealt with a variety of thoughts ranging from power and politics to history, to psychology and society and so on. It seems to be almost inevitable to extricate literature from amalgamating with other disciplines. Management gurus have used children's stories to illustrate the learning of business skills. The advantages of analyzing literature and management from twin perspectives impart focus and freshness to research. While literature is creative, management is practical. The two subjects intermingle to serve the purpose of combining instruction with amusement through the use of literary devices, fantasy characters and fictional aspects.
Interdisciplinary studies, Higher education, Children