Children In Culture

Author : K. Lesnik-Oberstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230376205

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Children in Culture by K. Lesnik-Oberstein Pdf

Children 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).

Author : Jacqueline Waldren,Ignacy-Marek Kaminski
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780857453259

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Learning from the Children by Jacqueline Waldren,Ignacy-Marek Kaminski Pdf

Children 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.

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814742319

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The Children's Culture Reader by Henry Jenkins Pdf

A reader on children's culture

Author : Sharon Stephens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691224893

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Children and the Politics of Culture by Sharon Stephens Pdf

The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened, invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults. Through a series of essays that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. Explorations of children's situations in Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, England, Norway, the United States, Brazil, and Germany reveal how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in contemporary battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies. Throughout this volume, the authors address the complex and often ambiguous implications of the concept of rights. For example, it may be used to defend indigenous children from radically assimilationist or even genocidal state policies; but it may also be used to legitimate racist institutions. A substantive introduction by the editor examines global political economic frameworks for the cultural debates affecting children and traces intriguing, sometimes surprising, threads throughout the papers. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Norma Field, Marilyn Ivy, Mary John, Hae-joang Cho, Saya Shiraishi, Vivienne Wee, Pamela Reynolds, Kathleen Hall, Ruth Mandel, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Njabulo Ndebele.

Author : Claudia Mitchell,Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134553389

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Researching Children's Popular Culture by Claudia Mitchell,Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Pdf

The 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.

Author : Ian Hutchby,Jo Moran-Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136365379

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Children, Technology and Culture by Ian Hutchby,Jo Moran-Ellis Pdf

Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers. Children, Technology and Culture looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. This collection brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to address the following four aspects of this relationship between children and technology: *children's access to technologies and the implications for social relationships *the structural contexts of children's engagement with technologies with a focus on gender and the family *the situatedness of children's interactions with technological objects *the constitution of children and childhood through the mediations of technology _ This book represents a substantial contribution to contemporary social scientific thinking both about the nature of children and childhood, the social impacts of technologies and the various relationships between the two.

Author : Nancy E. Dowd,Dorothy G. Singer,Robin Fretwell Wilson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412913691

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Handbook of Children, Culture, and Violence by Nancy E. Dowd,Dorothy G. Singer,Robin Fretwell Wilson Pdf

"Each chapter contains recommendations for legislators, policy makers, researchers, and families. This book should be on the desk, and minds, of legislators, attorneys, social workers and other mental health professionals who encounter and wish to ameliorate the effects of violence in the lives of their young constituents, clients, and patients." -JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIESQuestions relating to violence and children surround us in the media: should V-chips be placed in every television set? How can we prevent another Columbine school shooting from occurring? How should pornography on the internet be regulated? The Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence addresses these questions and more, providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of childhood violence that considers children as both consumers and perpetrators of violence, as well as victims of it. The Handbook offers much-needed empirical evidence that will help inform debate about these important policy decisions. Moreover, it is the first single volume to consider situations when children are responsible for violence, rather than focusing exclusively on occasions when they are victimized. Providing the first comprehensive overview of current research in the field, the editors have brought together the work of a group of prominent scholars whose work is united by a common concern for the impact of violence on the lives of children. The Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence is poised to become the ultimate resource and reference work on children and violence for researchers, teachers, and students of psychology, human development and family studies, law, communications, education, sociology, and political science/ public policy. It will also appeal to policymakers, media professionals, and special interest groups concerned with reducing violence in children's lives. Law firms specializing in family law, as well as think tanks, will also be interested in the Handbook.

Author : Flemming Mouritsen,Jens Qvortrup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060003707

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Childhood and Children's Culture by Flemming Mouritsen,Jens Qvortrup Pdf

For over a decade, sociologically oriented childhood research and research on child culture have experienced a dramatic growth within the humanities and the social sciences as well as an increasing prominence at the institutional level. This book is the meeting place of two closely related fields of research: childrens culture and the history of childhood on the one hand, and the sociology and anthropology of childhood on the other. The two 'camps' share a joint methodological view of children as agents in their own lives, environments and even in society at large, yet it is also agreed that their lives and welfare are largely formed by adults and the society in which they live. Both research areas have been vital for the development of new strands of childhood research which are in many ways characterised by a departure from more conventional approaches, concepts and understandings that have dominated childhood research -- and childhood itself -- in much of the 20th century. The articles in the book represent numerous aspects of the two areas of research. In a critical vein, the sociologically and anthropologically oriented contributions cover studies of structural aspects of childhood as well as qualitative studies of childrens everyday life, while the culturally oriented contributions comprise classical studies of childrens culture products, history, media, play culture and symbolic forms of expression. The articles present general differences and divergences in methods and perspectives, but also show what the two types of approach have in common.

Author : Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children
ISBN : 0333711491

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Children in Culture by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein Pdf

Author : Máire Messenger Davies
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335240067

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EBOOK: Children, Media And Culture by Máire Messenger Davies Pdf

Childhood and children's culture are regularly in the forefront of debates about how society is changing - often, it is argued, for the worse. Some of the most visible changes are new media technology; digital television; the internet; portable entertainment systems such as games, mobile phones, i-pods and so on. Television, the most popular medium with children for the last thirty years, is becoming less so. This book is intended to broaden the public debate about the role of popular media in children's lives. Its definition of 'media' is wide-ranging: not just television and the internet, but also still-popular forms such as fairy tales, children's literature - including the triumphantly successful Harry Potter series - and playground games. It sets these discussions within a framework of historical, sociological and psychological approaches to the study of children and childhood. At times of rapid technological change, public anxieties always arise about how children can be protected from new harmful influences. The book addresses the perennial controversies around media 'effects' from a range of academic perspectives. It examines critically the view that technology has dramatically changed modern children's lives, and looks at how technology has both changed, and sustained, children's cultural experiences in different times and places. Does new interactive technology give children a 'voice'? It can permit children to be their own authors and to engage in civil society, as well as to explore taboo and potentially dangerous areas. The book discusses how children can use technology to enhance their role as 'citizens in the making', as well its utilizing more playful applications. The book includes interviews with both producers and consumers - media workers, and children and their families, and has historical and contemporary illustrations.

Author : Sonia Livingstone,Kirsten Drotner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412928328

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International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture by Sonia Livingstone,Kirsten Drotner Pdf

Deliberately selected to represent as many parts of the globe as possible, and with a commitment to recognizing both the similarities and differences in children and young people's lives - from China to Denmark, from Canada to India, from Japan to Iceland, from - the authors offer a rich contextualization of children's engagement with their particular media and communication environment, while also pursuing cross-cutting themes in terms of comparative and global trends.

Author : Roberta Wollons,Roberta Lyn Wollons
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300077889

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Kindergartens and Cultures by Roberta Wollons,Roberta Lyn Wollons Pdf

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the German kindergarten - banned by the Prussian government as revolutionary - spread rapidly to nations around the globe, becoming at once a local and modernising institution. This book is a collection of case studies that describe the remarkable diffusion, adoption, and transformation of the kindergarten in eleven modern and developing nations. The contributors to the volume examine the process by which the idea of the kindergarten arrived and was adopted in these countries - a process that invariably demonstrated the immense power of local cultures, whether Christian, Buddhist, or Islamic, to respond to and reformulate borrowed ideas. Borrowing cultures do not engage in passive mimicry, the studies show, but recast ideas for their own purposes. Beginning with Germany, the chapters of this book follow the kindergarten idea as it passed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the United States, then England, Australia, Japan, China, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Israel. The contributors examine such complex political, social, and cultural issues as the relationship of gender to national educational policies, the impact of mi

Author : R. Willett,C. Richards,J. Marsh,A. Burn,J. C Bishop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137318077

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Children, Media and Playground Cultures by R. Willett,C. Richards,J. Marsh,A. Burn,J. C Bishop Pdf

Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.

Author : Marianne Hedegaard,Marilyn Fleer
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335237586

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EBOOK: Studying Children: A Cultural-Historical Approach by Marianne Hedegaard,Marilyn Fleer Pdf

Studying Children is the first book of its kind to offer a theoretical and practical discussion of how to undertake research using cultural-historical theory when researching the everyday lives of children. The authors discuss the complexities of child development, providing a critique of alternative perspectives of research and notions of development. They provide a number of case studies following researchers in early childhood as they move from a developmental approach to a cultural-historical framework for observing and planning for young children. The chapters: Provide a solid framework for understanding the foundations of this approach Address the importance of viewing research as an interactive technique Offer guidance on how to collect and interpret material Show how to make observations of and interviews with children, within a dialectical research approach Present examples of how to write and present findings using this technique The book is rich with examples of how to undertake specific methods, such as surveys, experiments, case studies, digital video observations, interviews, and children as researchers. Studying Children is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students working in the field of Early and Middle Childhood at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814742319

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The Children's Culture Reader by Henry Jenkins Pdf

A reader on children's culture