Designing modern childhoods : history, space, and the material culture of children
Başlık:
Designing modern childhoods : history, space, and the material culture of children
ISBN:
9780813541969
9780813541952
Yayın Bilgileri:
New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
©2008
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xvi, 346 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series:
The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Contents:
Introduction: Good to think with : history, space, and modern childhood / Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith -- Connecting with the landscape : campfires and youth culture at American summer camps, 1890-1950 / Abigail A. Van Slyck -- A (better) home away from home : the emergence of children's hospitals in an age of women's reform / David C. Sloane -- Sick children and the thresholds of domesticity : the Dawson-Harrington families at home / Annmarie Adams and Peter Gossage -- The "Meyers Park experiment" in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913-1916 / Anéne Cusins-Lewer and Julia Gatley -- A breath of fresh air : open-air schools in Europe / Anne-Marie Châtelet -- Molding the republican generation : the landscapes of learning in early republican Turkey / Zeynep Kezer -- Nomadic schools in Senegal : manifestations of integration or ritual performance? / Kristine Juul -- Adventure playgrounds and postwar reconstruction / Roy Kozlovsky -- The view from the back step : White children learn about race in Johannesburg's suburban homes / Rebecca Ginsburg -- Children and the Rosenwald schools of the American South / Mary S. Hoffschwelle -- The geographies and identities of street girls in Indonesia / Harriot Beazley -- Coming of age in suburbia : gifting the consumer child / Alison J. Clarke -- Inscribing Nordic childhoods at McDonald's / Helene Brembeck -- "Board with the world" : youthful approaches to landscapes and mediascapes / Olav Christensen -- Migrating media : anime media mixes and the childhood imagination / Mizuko Ito -- Epilogue: The islanding of children : reshaping the mythical landscapes of childhood / John R. Gillis.
Abstract:
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.
Dil:
English