Abstract:

In the context of teacher training, if we consider the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau regarding childhood as the true period of freedom of the human being before being perverted by the process of socialization, it can be considered that there are several classics of children’s and young adults’ literature who explore that boundary between two worlds, adults’ and children’s, which is where most of the students of the first courses in the university can be situated. Our proposal selects two characters and fiction scenarios where they move as representative of two opposite points of the socialization process: childhood and paradise versus culture and maturity. Starting with Peter Pan and Captain Hook, the aim is to use the design of a didactic sequence to characterize both the original Barrie’s work and subsequent revisions of the myth and the cinematographic productions that adapted it, with the aim that the students identify the characters with real people and position themselves at a point within the interval between the two extremes, in addition to identifying the educational implications that this reflection may entail for their future professional teacher with children in Early Childhood or Primary Education.

Keywords:

Teachers training, literary education, children's and YA literature.