Designing Modern Childhoods

History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children

AvMarta Gutman,Ning de Coninck-Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable; and the cultural landscapes of children's private lives were changed, with modifications in architecture and the objects of daily life.In Designing Modern Childhoods, architectural historians, social historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals, playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the McDonald's Happy Meal. Special attention is given to how children use and interpret the spaces, buildings, and objects that are part of their lives, becoming themselves creators and carriers of culture. The authors extract common threads in children's understandings of their material worlds, but they also show how the experience of modernity varies for young people across time, through space, and according to age, gender, social class, race, and culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-01-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
Medarbetare:PaulaS. Fass
ISBN:9780813541969

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MARTA GUTMAN is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York/CUNY.NING DE CONINK-SMITH is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Sociology at the Danish University of Education.

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"This imaginative and original collection will play an important role in enhancing a growing interest in the history and sociology of childhood." - Peter Stearns (Provost and Professor of History, George Mason University) "The essays in this interesting and informative volume look at modern childhood's space and material culture from an interdisciplinary and global perspective. Highly recommended." (Choice)

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Paula S. Fass Acknowledgments Introduction: Good to Think With: History, Space, and Modern ChildhoodMARTA GUTMAN AND NING DE CONINCK-SMITH PART ONE: Child Saving and the Design of Modern Childhoods1 Connecting with the Landscape: Campfires and Youth Culture at American Summer Camps, 1890–1950 ABIGAIL A. VAN SLYCK2 A (Better) Home Away from Home: The Emergence of Children’s Hospitals in an Age of Women’s Reform DAVID C. SLOANE3 Sick Children and the Thresholds of Domesticity: The Dawson-Harrington Families at Home ANNMARIE ADAMS AND PETER GOSSAGE4 The “Myers Park Experiment” in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913–1916 ANÉNE CUSINS-LEWER AND JULIA GATLEYPART TWO: The Choreography of Education and Play5 A Breath of Fresh Air: Open-Air Schools in Europe ANNE-MARIE CHÂTELET6 Molding the Republican Generation: The Landscapes of Learning in Early Republican Turkey ZEYNEP KEZER7 Nomadic Schools in Senegal: Manifestations of Integration or Ritual Performance? KRISTINE JUUL8 Adventure Playgrounds and Postwar Reconstruction ROY KOZLOVSKYPART THREE: Space, Power, and Inequality inModern Childhoods9 The View from the Back Step: White Children Learn about Race in Johannesburg’s Suburban Homes REBECCA GINSBURG10 Children and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South MARY S. HOFFSCHWELLE11 The Geographies and Identities of Street Girls in Indonesia HARRIOT BEAZLEYPART FOUR: Consumption, Commodification, and the Media: Material Culture and Contemporary Childhoods12 Coming of Age in Suburbia: Gifting the Consumer Child ALISON J. CLARKE13 Inscribing Nordic Childhoodsat McDonald’s HELENE BREMBECK14 “Board with the World”: Youthful Approaches to Landscapes and Mediascapes OLAV CHRISTENSEN15 Migrating Media: Anime Media Mixes and the Childhood Imagination MIZUKO ITOEpilogue: The Islanding of Children: Reshaping the Mythical Landscapes of Childhood JOHN R. GILLISNotes on Contributors Index