The Children's Culture Reader
Author: Henry Jenkins
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1998-10
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 0814742319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reader on children's culture
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Learning from the Children
Author: Jacqueline Waldren
Publisher:
Published: 2014-09
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781782386759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult-child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child's perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult-child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.
Children in Culture
Author: K. Lesnik-Oberstein
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-09-07
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0230376207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren in Culture is one of the first fully multi- and interdisciplinary collections of essays on theoretical approaches to childhood and formulates and presents new and exciting ideas about the construction of childhood as a cultural identity. The ten original chapters have been written especially for this volume by some of the most eminent writers on childhood in their fields: psychology (Valerie Walkerdine; Rex and Wendy Stainton Rogers), history (Jenny Bourne Taylor; Kimberly Reynolds; Paul Yates), critical theory (Erica Burman), literary criticism (Margarida Morgado; Sara Thornton), children's literature criticism (Karin Lesnik-Oberstein; Stephen Thomson), and film and drama theory (Joe Kelleher).
Researching Children's Popular Culture
Author: Claudia Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1134553382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe place of childhood in popular culture is one that invites new readings both on childhood itself, but also on approaches to studying childhood. Discussing different methods of researching children's popular culture, they argue that the interplay of the age of the players, the status of their popular culture, the transience of the objects, and indeed the ephemerality - and long lastingness - of childhood, all contribute to what could be regarded as a particularized space for childhood studies - and one that challenges many of the conventions of "doing research" involving children.
Children's Cultures after Childhood
Author: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2023-08-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9027249598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from diverse disciplinary fields (literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, education, and childhood studies) offer a cross-section of empirical and theoretical approaches sharing an inspiration in the notion of “after childhoods”, proposed by Peter Kraftl, a children’s geographer, to conceptualize theoretical and methodological orientations in research on children’s lives and on past, present, and future childhoods. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to scholars working in children’s literature and culture studies, education, and childhood studies.
Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
Author: Andrea Immel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1135473323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. The essays offer a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature for children as central to evolving early modern concepts of human development and socialization. Among the topics covered are constructs of literacy as revealed by the figure of Goody Two Shoes, notions of pedagogy and academic standards, a reception study of children's reading based on book purchases made by Rugby school boys in the late eighteenth-century, an analysis of the first international best-seller for children, the abbe Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, and the commodification of child performers in Jacobean comedies.
Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage
Author: Kate Darian-Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0415529948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore.
Children in the House
Author: Karin Lee Fishbeck Calvert
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy examining the objects used for childrearing over the course of 300 years, Calvert (American history, U. of Pennsylvania) maps the changes in the material culture of parenting and uncovers the history of childhood in America. Includes 26 bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture
Author: Claudia Nelson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 776
ISBN-13: 1000984524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.
We're Friends, Right?
Author: William A. Corsaro
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Published: 2003-10-19
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780309087292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociologists often study exotic cultures by immersing themselves in an environment until they become accepted as insiders. In this fascinating account by acclaimed researcher William A. Corsaro, a scientist "goes native" to study the secret world of children. Here, for the first time, are the children themselves, heard through an expert who knows that the only way to truly understand them is by becoming a member of their community. That's just what Corsaro did when he traded in his adult perspective for a seat in the sandbox alongside groups of preschoolers. Corsaro's journey of discovery is as fascinating as it is revealing. Living among and gaining the acceptance of children, he gradually comes to understand that a child's world is far more complex than anyone ever suspected. He documents a special culture, unique unto itself, in which children create their own social structures and exert their own influences. At a time when many parents fear that they don't spend enough time with their children, and experts debate the best path to healthy development, seeing childhood through the eyes of a child offers parents and caregivers fresh and compelling insights. Corsaro calls upon all adults to appreciate, embrace, and savor their children's culture. He asks us to take a cue from those we hold so precious and understand that "we're all friends, right?"
