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Reading |
Lab/Dates of Note |
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Unit One:
Introduction
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I. Tuesday January 6
Introduction
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Lab: AI |
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II. Thursday January 8
General Issues
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Read:
- Henry Jenkins, "Childhood
Innocence and Other Modern Myths" CCR
- William Kessen, "The
American Child and Other Cultural Inventions"
- Jean Briggs, "Eskimo
Family Life"
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III. Tuesday January 13
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: Remainder of Truffaut's Wild Child, & discussion
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IV. Thursday January 15
The Developing Child
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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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V. Tuesday January 20
Children in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Read:
- Theodore Zeldin, "How to
Interpret the Anger of Teenagers" and "How
Children Deal With Their Parents"
- Joseph Tobin, David Wu, Dana Davidson, Preschool in Three
Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States |
Lab: Preschool in 3 Cultures, Margaret
Mead on French Childhood |
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Unit Two:
Play and Fantasy
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VI. Thursday January 22
Case Study of Barbie
(guest speaker!)
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Read:
- Erica Rand, "Older Heads on Younger Bodies" CCR
- Nancie Martin interview B/MK
- Albert Magro, Why Barbie is perceived
as Beautiful
- Lynn Spigel, Barbies without
Ken: Femininity, Feminism and the Art-Culture System
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Observation
Assignment due |
VII. Tuesday January 27
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"
-Look at kids
TV commercials website
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Lab: Barbie Liberation Organization & Twist Barbie
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XII. Thursday January 29
Play and Reality
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Read:
- D.W. Winnicott, "Playing:
A Theoretical Statement" and "The
Location of Cultural Experience"
- Gregory Bateson, "A
Theory of Play and Fantasy"
-Phillipe Aries, "A Modest Contribution
to the History of Games and Pastimes"
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- Fernanda Moore, "Little
Boy Pink"
- Walt Kelly, "Pogo Primer For
Parents"
- Libby Purves, "Time
to move beyond 'boys will be boys'
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Unit Three:
Sexuality and Gender
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VIII. Tuesday February
3
Responding to Children's Sexuality |
Read:
- Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
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Lab: La Vie en Rose |
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IX. Thursday February 5 Present Artifacts
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Student Presentations:
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X. Tuesday February 10
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
- David Sedaris "I Like Guys"
(listen to this online: follow link and and search for essay title
in the "Cruelty of Children" show that was broadcast 6/21/96;
Episode 27)
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Lab: videogames (Barbie Fashion
Designer, Purple Moon) |
XI. Thursday February
12
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,"
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Unit Four:
Children and Computers |
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XV. Tuesday February 17
Computers and Childhood
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- The
Alliance for Childhood, "Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at
Computers in Childhood"
- Sherry Turkle, Cyborg
babies and Cy-doug-plasm: Ideas about self and life in the culture
of simulation.
- Kaiser Family Foundation, Kids
and Media at the New Millennium and charts
- Ellen Wartella & Nancy Jennings, Children
and Computers: New Technology—Old Concerns. (optional)
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Lab: Web Sites For Kids
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XIII. Thursday February
19
Children as Technologists |
Read:
- Seymour Papert & Gaston Caperton, Vision
for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform
- Mitch Resnick., Amy Bruckman, and Fred Martin "Pianos
Not Stereos: Creating Computational Construction Kits"
- Justine Cassell "Genderizing
HCI"
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XIV. Tuesday February 24
Children Online
(Guest Speaker!)
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Read:
- Jon Katz, "The Rights of Children"
- Don Tapscott, "The N-Gen
Mind"
- Amy Bruckman
"Community Support for Constructionist Learning"
- Justine Cassell "We
Have these Rules Inside": The Effects of Exercising Voice in
a Children's Online Forum"
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Paper due |
Unit Five:
Stories for and by Children |
XVI. Thursday February 26
From Folk Tales to Children's Literature |
Read:
- Robert Darnton, "Peasants
Tell Tales"
- Bettelheim "Uses
of Enchantment" + Grimm's "Hansel & Gretel",
and "Snow White"
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XVI. Tuesday March 2
Children as Storytellers |
Read:
- Carolyn Steedman, "The Tidy House" CCR
- Peggy Miller et al., "Narrative
Practices and the Social Construction of Self in Childhood";
- Kimiko Ryokai, Catherine Vaucelle, & Justine Cassell, Virtual
Peers as Partners in Storytelling and Literacy Learning
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Lab: Harry Potter
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Unit Six:
Moral and Political Issues |
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XVII. Thursday March 4
Colonialism & Political Issues of Childhood
(guest speaker!)
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Read:
- Elizabeth Chin, Children Out of
Bounds in Globalising Times
- Lawrence Kohlberg, "Moral Stages
and Moralization: The Cognitive-Developmental Approach" (Chapter 2)
and "The Six Stages of Justice
Judgement" (Appendix A)
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XVIII. Tuesday March 9
Violence and Child's Play |
Read:
- Joanne Cantor, "'But
it's Only Make Believe': Fantasy, Fiction and Fear"
- Gerald
Jones, "Vampire Slayers" |
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XIX. Thursday March 11
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Presentations of Final Projects
Please fill out the CTEC course
evaluation !!
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projects due |
