Class |
Reading |
Lab/Dates of Note |
Unit One:
Introduction
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I. Tuesday February 5
Introduction
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Read:
- Henry Jenkins, "Childhood Innocence and Other Modern Myths"
CCR
- William Kessen, "The American Child and Other Cultural Inventions"
- The Alliance for Childhood, "Fool's Gold: A Critical Look
at Computers in Childhood"
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Lab: AI |
II. Thursday February 7
Children in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Quality Time and Tough Love
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Read:
- Theodore Zeldin, "How to Interpret the Anger of Teenagers"
and "How Children Deal With Their Parents"
- Jean Briggs "Eskimo Family Life"
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III. Tuesday February
12
The Historical Evolution of Childhood
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Read:
- Phillippe Aries, "From Immodesty to Innocence" CCR
- Viviana A. Zelizer, "From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict
Over Child Labor" CCR
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Lab: Secret Garden
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IV. Thursday February 14
Rousseau and the Primitive Child |
Read:
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Book One"
- Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinnochio
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Tuesday February 19 is a Monday Schedule Due
to the President's Day Holiday
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V. Thursday February 21
The Developing Child |
Read:
- Erik Erikson, "Toys and Reason" and "Eight Ages of
Man";
- Lev Vygotsky, "Tool and Symbol in Child Development";
- Jean Briggs "Conflict Management & Socialization among
Canadian Inuit"
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Unit Two:
Sexuality
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VI. Tuesday February 26
Responding to Children's Sexuality |
Read:
- Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
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Lab: La Vie en Rose |
VII. Thursday February 28
Representing the Erotic Child |
Read:
- Anne Higonnet, "Photographs Against the Law
- Henry Jenkins, "The Sensuous Child: Benjamin Spock and the Sexual
Revolution" CCR
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VIII. Tuesday March 5
Gender and Non-Conformity |
Read:
- Eve Sedgewick, "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay" CCR
- Barrie Thorne, "Crossing the Gender Divide", Gender Play: Girls
and Boys in School CCR
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Lab: Troubriand Cricket / Film on Children's
Stories. |
Unit Three:
Play and Language
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IX. Thursday March 7
Play and Reality |
Read:
- D.W. Winnicott, "Playing: A Theoretical Statement" and
"The Location of Cultural Experience"
- Gregory Bateson, "A Theory of Play and Fantasy"
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X. Tuesday March 12
The Commercialization of Children's Culture |
Read:
- Heather Hendershot, "Action For (and Against) Children's
Television"
- Ellen Seiter, "Children's Desires/Mother's Dilemmas"
CCR
- Gene Del Vecchio, "Touch the Boy's Psyche" and "Touch
the Girl's Psyche"
For Lab:
Read: David Buckingham and Julian Sefton-Green, "Gotta Catch
Em All': Structure, Agency and Pedagogy in Children's Media Culture"
(Working Paper)
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Lab: Pokemon: The Movie
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XI. Thursday March 14
Toys and Culture |
Read:
- Lois Rostow Kuznets, "On the Couch with Calvin, Hobbes, and
Winnie the Pooh"
- Philip Aries "Toys & Games"
- Chandra Mukerji, "Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood
and Techniques of Cultural Analysis."
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XII. Tuesday March 19
Present Artifacts |
Student Presentations:
Nintendo's Gameboy as an Artifact of Childhood http://home.attbi.com/~etargum/CC/GameboyPres.ppt
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Lab: Toy Story |
XIII. Thursday March
21
The Girls Game Movement |
Read:
- Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, "Chess for Girls?"
B/MK
- Interview with Brenda Laurel B/MK
- Game Grrls B/MK
- Henry Jenkins, "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Further Reflections,"
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/jenkins.html
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March 25-29, SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS
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XIV. Tuesday April 2
The Gendering of Play and Work |
Read:
- E. Anthony Rotundo, "Boy Culture"CCR;
- Miriam Formanek-Brunnell, "The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century
America." CCR
Recommended:
- Henry Jenkins, "Complete Freedom of Movement': Computer Games
as Gendered Playspaces" B/MK
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Lab: Sam, DollTalk, & Games to Teach |
XV. Thursday April 4
Case Study of Barbie |
Read:
- Erica Rand, "Older Heads on Younger Bodies" CCR
- Nancie Martin interview B/MK
Recommended:
- Ann du Cille, Skin Trade (Harvard Univ. Press, 1996). Especially
pp.9-40
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Unit Four:
Children as Instigators |
XVI. Tuesday April 9
Children as Technologists |
Read:
- Seymour Papert, "Computers for Children" (Introduction)
- Mitch Resnick., Amy Bruckman, and Fred Martin "Pianos Not Stereos:
Creating Computational Construction Kits";
- Justine Cassell, "Genderizing HCI"
http://web.media.mit.edu/~justine/publications.html
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Lab: Lego Mindstorms
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XVII. Thursday April 11
Children as Storytellers |
Read:
- Carolyn Steedman, "The Tidy House" CCR
- Peggy Miller et al., "Narrative Practices and the Social
Construction of Self in Childhood";
- Justine Cassell "Making Space for Voice: Technologies to Support
Children's Fantasy and Storytelling."
http://web.media.mit.edu/~justine/publications.html |
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NO CLASS, Tuesday April 16, Patriot's Day
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XVIII. Thursday April 18
Children as Cultural Producers |
Read:
- Alison James, "Confections, Concoctions, and Conceptions"
CCR
- Shelby Anne Wolfe and Shirley Brice Heath, "Living in a World
of Words" CCR |
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Unit Five:
Literature |
XIX. Tuesday April 23
The Problem of Children's Literature |
Read:
- Jacqueline S. Rose, "The Case of Peter Pan: The Impossibility
of Children's Fiction" CCR
- Marjorie Garber, "Fear of Flying or Why Is Peter Pan a Woman?"
- Maria Tatar, "'Violent Delights' in Children's Literature" |
Lab: Peter Pan (Mary Martin) |
XX. Thursday April 25
From Folk Tales to Children's Literature |
Read:
- Robert Darnton, "Peasants Tell Tales"
- J.K. Rowlings, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
- Bettelheim "Uses of Enchantment" + Grimm's "Hansel
& Gretel", and "Snow White"
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XXI. Tuesday April 30
Walt Disney and Doctor Seuss: Two Visions of Childhood |
Read:
- Henry Jenkins, "No Matter How Small: The Democratic Imagination
of Doctor Seuss"
- Nicholas Sammond, "Manufacturing the American Child: Childrearing
and the Rise of Walt Disney"
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Lab: 5000 Fingers of Dr. T;
Mickey Mouse Monopoly |
Unit Six:
Moral and Political Issues |
XXII. Thursday May 2
Play and Moral Development |
Read:
- Carol Gilligan, "Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle"
- Lawrence Kohlberg, "Moral Stages and Moralization: The Cognitive-Developmental
Approach" (Chapter 2) and "The Six Stages of Justice Judgement" (Appendix
A)
- Optional: Kohlberg, "The Current Formulation of the Theory" (Chapter
3) |
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XXIII. Tuesday May 7
Violence and Child's Play |
Read:
- Joanne Cantor, "'But it's Only Make Believe': Fantasy, Fiction
and Fear"
- Gerald Jones, "Vampire Slayers" http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/jones.html |
Lab: Song of the South; Mulan |
XXIV. Thursday May 9
Cultural and Racial Stereotypes |
Read:
- Herbert R. Kohl, "Shall We Burn Babar?"
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XXV. Tuesday May 14
Childhood Online |
Read:
- Jon Katz, "The Rights of Children"
- Don Tapscott, "The N-Gen Mind"
- Amy Bruckman, "Community Support for Constructionist Learning"
(http://www.cc.gatech.edu/%7Easb/papers/cscw.html)
- Justine Cassell " "We Have these Rules Inside": The
Effects of Exercising Voice in a Children's Online Forum"
http://web.media.mit.edu/~justine/publications.html |
Lab: Presentations of Final Projects |
XXVI. Thursday May 16
Wrap Up |
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age |
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