Soudabeh Shokrollahzadeh

Soudabeh Shokrollahzadeh is a faculty member in the Department of Childhood Education at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran. She earned her PhD in Philosophy of Education from Shiraz University, where she also completed her master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. Her research interests encompass a diverse range of topics within children’s literature, philosophy for children, and education. She explores children’s responses to picturebooks; Young adult novel, dialogic pedagogy, particularly through the lens of Bakhtin, and the intersections of children’s literature and philosophy. Additionally, she focuses on the evolving perspectives on children’s literature within the educational program of Philosophy for Children (P4C). Soudabeh has published articles in various academic journals and contributed chapters to works like The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World published by Palgrave Macmillan and The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature. Her conference presentations address topics, including the application of Bakhtin’s theory to bilingual storytelling, the importance of citizenship rights in education, fender ideologies in Iranian folktales and Iranian nonsense poetry. Through her body of work and scholarly endeavors, she seeks to promote the importance of children’s literature as a vital component of educational and literary studies, advocating for a dialogical approach that enhances young children’s understanding and engagement with literature and philosophy.

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