Childhood and Youth
Childhood: a global journal of child research
Quarterly interdisciplinary journal published in association with the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Sage Publications.
Picturing children: constructions of childhood between Rousseau and Freud
Edited by Marilyn R. Brown. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
Encyclopedia of children and childhood
Edited by Paula Fass. New York: Macmillan, 2003.
Kidworld: childhood studies, global perspectives, and education
Edited by Gaile S. Cannella & Joe L. Kincheloe. New York: P. Lang, 2002.
Images of childhood
Edited by C. Philip Hwang, Michael E. Lamb, and Irving E. Sigel. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
Journal of Social History: special issue on Globalization and Childhood. Volume 38, Number 4, Summer 2005.
The children's culture reader
Edited by Henry Jenkins. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Unequal childhoods: class, race, and family life
Annette Lareau. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Children's childhoods: observed and experienced
Berry Mayall. London: Routledge Falmer, 1995
American children's literature and the construction of childhood
Gail S. Murray. New York: Twayne Publishers.
Rethinking childhood
Edited by Peter B. Pufall and Richard P. Unsworth. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Understanding childhood: an interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Martin Woodhead and Heather Montgomery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Consumption and the production of value
The business of children's entertainment
Norma Odom Pecora. New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
"When is a doll more than a doll?: selling toys as reassurance for maternal and class anxiety"
Allison J. Pugh. Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper, 2001.
"From 'compensation' to 'childhood wonder': why parents buy"
Allison J. Pugh. Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper, 2002.
Kinderculture: the corporate construction of childhood
Edited by Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004.
Pricing the priceless child: the changing social value of children
Viviana Zelizer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Education
The manufactured crisis: myths, fraud, and the attack on America's public schools
David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994.
School talk: gender and adolescent culture
Donna Eder. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
The one best system
David Tyack. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Learning to labor: how working class kids get working class jobs
Paul Willis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
Sociology of education: emerging perspectives
Edited by Carlos Alberto Torres and Theodore R. Mitchell. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Art and Music Education
Music in their heads: music and its meaning in children's lives
Patricia S. Campbell. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Strong arts, strong schools: the promising potential and shortsighted disregard of the arts in American schooling.
Charles Fowler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
The educational role of the museum
Edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill. London & New York: Routledge, 1999.
Putting the arts in the picture: reframing education in the 21st century
Edited by Nick Rabkin & Robin Redmond. Chicago: Columbia College, 2004.
Popular Culture and Cultural Politics
After the death of childhood: growing up in the age of electronic media
David Buckingham. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.
The radiant hour: versions of youth in American culture
Edited by Neil Campbell. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000.
Growing up with television: everyday learning among young adolescents
Joellen Fisherkeller. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
Fugitive cultures: race, violence, and youth
Henry A. Giroux. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Kids' media culture: console-ing passions
Edited by Marsha Kinder. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Images of youth: popular culture as educational ideology
Edited by Michael A. Oliker and Walter P. Krolikowski. New York: P. Lang, 2001.
Researching children's popular culture : the cultural spaces of childhood
Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. London: Routledge, 2002.
Small wars: the cultural politics of childhood
Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Pedagogy
Disturbing pleasures: learning popular culture
Henry Giroux. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Critical theories in education: changing terrains of knowledge and politics
Edited by Thomas Popkewitz and Lynn Fendler. New York & London: Routledge, 1999.
Teaching as a subversive activity.
Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. New York: Dell Publishing, 1969.
Testing
Fair game?: the use of standardized admissions tests in higher education
Rebecca Zwick. New York & London: Routledge Falmer, 2002.
Education Reform
The charter school dust-up: examining the evidence on enrollment and achievement
Martin Carnoy, Rebecca Jacobsen, Lawrence Mishel, and Richard Rothstein. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2005.
Reconstructing the common good in education: coping with intractable American dilemmas
Edited by Larry Cuban and Dorothy Shipps. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Who's in charge here?: The tangled web of school governance and policy
Edited by Noel Epstein. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
Who chooses, who loses? Culture, institutions, and the unequal effects of school choice
Edited by Bruce Fuller, Richard Elmore and Gary Orfield. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
Improving poor people: the welfare state, the "underclass" and urban schools as history
Michael B. Katz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
The class size debate
Edited by Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2002.
Class and schools: using social, economic, and educational reform to close the black-white achievement gap
Richard Rothstein. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2004.
Multiculturalism
Outside in: minorities and the transformation of American education
Walter Feinberg. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Common schools, uncommon identities
Walter Feinberg. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Race in the schoolyard: reproducing the color line
Amanda Lewis. Camden, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Weaving a tapestry of resistance: the places, power, and poetry of a sustainable society
Sharon Sutton. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
Democracy, education and multiculturalism: dilemmas of citizenship in a global world
Carlos Torres. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield.
Teaching democracy: unity and diversity in public life
Walter Parker. New York and London: Teachers College Press, 2003
Governmentality
Governing children, families and education
Edited by Marianne Bloch, Kerstin Holmlund, Ingeborg Moqvist, and Thomas Popkewitz. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Reading Foucault for social work
Edited by Adrienne S. Chambon, Allan Irving, and Laura Epstein. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
The responsibility of parents for the education of their children: a Foucauldian analysis of the School Education Act, 1999
Wayne S. McGowan. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
Governing the soul: the shaping of the private self
Nikolas Rose. London: Free Association Books, 1999.
Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism
Democracy and education
John Dewey. New York: The Free Press, 1916.
The abandoned generation : democracy beyond the culture of fear
Henry A. Giroux. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Democratic education
Amy Gutmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Citizenship, education and the modern state
Edited by Kerry Kennedy. London and Washington, DC: The Falmer Press, 1997.
Citizenship through secondary education
Edited by David Lambert and Paul Machon. London: Routledge, 2001.
Education for Democracy: Contexts, Curricula, Assessments
Edited by Walter C. Parker. Greenwich, CT: Information Age, 2002.
Education for citizenship: ideas and innovations in political learning
Edited by Grant Reeher and Joseph Cammarano. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 1997.
Constituting Americans: cultural anxiety and the narrative form
Priscilla Wald. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
Learning to divide the world: education at empire's end
John Willinsky. Minneapolis and London: Minnesota University Press, 1998.
Educating citizens: international perspectives on civic values and school choice
Edited by Patrick J. Wolf and Stephen Macedo. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
Space
Putting children in their place
Stuart Aitken. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, 1994.
Cities for children: children's rights, poverty and urban management
Sheridan Bartlett, Roger Hart, David Satterthwaite, Ximena De La Barra, Alfredo Messair. New York: Earthscan, 1999.
Fortress America: gated communities in the United States
Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.
Children's spatial development
Edited by John Eliot and Neil J. Salkind. Springfield, IL: Bannerstone House.
Secret spaces of childhood
Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough. Anne Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Seeing through places: reflections on geography and identity
Mary Gordon. New York: Scribner, 2000.
Children's experiences of place
Roger Hart. New York: Irvington Publishers Inc., 1979.
Designing for play
Barbara E. Hendricks. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2001.
Children's geographies: playing, living, learning
Edited by Sarah Holloway and Gill Valentine. London: Routledge, 2000.
Behind the gates: life, security, and the pursuit
of happiness in fortress America
Setha M. Low. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Children of the city: at work and at play
David Nasaw. New York: Doubleday, 1985.
Children and Their Environments
Mark Blades and Christopher Spencer. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Public Schools
Seattle Times | seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/
2003103098_pledge04.html
Walter Parker asks "To what are we pledging our allegiance?" on July 4, 2006
Harper's Magazine
| www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/American-Apartheid-Education1sep05.htm
Jonathan Kozol on "Still Separate, Still Unequal:
America's Educational Apartheid"
Savage inequalities: children in America's schools
Jonathan Kozol. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
In schools we trust: creating communities of learning in an era of testing and standardization
Deborah Meier. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
Many children left behind: how the No Child Left Behind Act is damaging our children and our schools
Edited by Deborah Meier and George Wood. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
Phi Delta Kappan article | www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v86/k0501par.htm
An article written by Walter Parker entitled "Teaching Against Idiocy"
Seattle PI article | seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/262189_democracy09.html
Walter Parker writes on public schools as "hotbeds of democracy" in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 9, 2006.
Consumption
Consuming kids: the hostile takeover of childhood
Susan Linn. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
Sold separately: children and parents in consumer culture
Ellen Seiter. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Play
Star Tribune article | www.tclf.org/news/birnbaum_startribune_oct05.htm
An article about the state of urban parks. Written by Charles A. Birnbaum, founder and president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, DC.
Secret games: collaborative works with children 1969-1999
Wendy Ewald. Zurich: Scalo, 2000.
I wanna take me a picture: teaching photography and writing to children
Wendy Ewald. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Einstein never used flash cards: how our children really learn-- and why they need to play more and memorize less
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Mitchnick Golinkoff. Rodale Books, 2003.
The Politics of Play by Linda Baker ~ Metropolis Magazine
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda_test/story.php?artid=2389
Getting Kids Outside Has Wide Appeal ~ The Economist, February 14th 2007
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/303541_econnature14.html
Parents worry about 'nature-deficit disorder' in kids ~ Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.com/local/298708_nature06.html
Plugged-in party patrol By Stephanie Dunnewind ~ Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2003051765_summerparty10.html
Pressure and Competition
Seattle PI article | seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226666_play02.html
An article written by Katharyne Mitchell published in June, 2005 entitled "Give childhood back to children."
Punished by rewards: the trouble with gold stars, incentive plans, A's, praise and other bribes
Alfie Kohn. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
No contest: the case against competition.
Alfie Kohn. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
Body and Gender
The body project: an intimate history of American girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg. New York: Random House, 1997.
The best part of me: children talk about their bodies in pictures and words
Wendy Ewald. Boston: Megan Tingley Books, 2002.
Raising Cain: protecting the emotional life of boys
Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson. New York: Ballantine Publishing, 1999.
Beauty, brains, and brawn: the construction of gender in children's literature
Susan Lehr. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.
Real boys: rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood
William Pollack. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1998.
101 ways to help your daughter love her body
Brenda Jane Richardson and Elane Rehr. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
Same difference: how gender myths are hurting our relationships, our children and our jobs
Rosalind C. Barnett. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
TV/Video/Internet
The Internet playground: children's access, entertainment, and mis-education
Ellen Seiter. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
It's not the media: the truth about pop culture's influence on children
Karen Sternheimer. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003.
Documentaries
Mad
Hot Ballroom | www.paramountclassics.com/madhot
Follows four New York school kids as they compete in a
ballroom dancing competition.
Spellbound
| www.spellboundmovie.com
Teenagers compete in the national spelling bee contest
on TV. 2002.
To
be and To have (Etre et avoir) | http://chipsquaw.free.fr/etreetavoir
104 minutes. 2002.
Good Food/Bad Food: Obesity in American Children
This film covers the causes and consequences of childhood obesity, and the changes in personal habits and public health policies that can prevent obesity and help overweight children achieve and maintain a healthy weight. 31 minutes, Fanlight Productions.
Alone Together Young Adults Living with HIV
This film speaks to the feelings and experiences of young people infected with HIV. 18 minutes, Fanlight Productions.
Are the Kids Alright?
This searing documentary examines the crisis in mental health care for children and adolescents at risk. 57 minutes, 2004.
Cut
A film by Elizabeth Pearson and Sally Rubin Male. Their stories capture teenage boys' feelings about their bodies, and the pressures and expectations they feel are placed on them by their peers and by society. 9 minutes, 2003, Fanlight Productions.
Shredded
A film by Douglas Taplin & Richard Gaudio, National Film Board of Canada. Explores the pressures on young men to transform their bodies. 21 minutes, 2005, Fanlight Productions.
How I Coped When Mommy Died
A film by a 13 year-old boy who lost his mother to breast cancer. 26 minutes, 1999, Fanlight Productions.
Standing Tall
A teacher enlists a drama therapist and youth theater group to help her 4th and 5th grade students cope with the impact of viewing the destruction of the World Trade Center towers. 24 minutes. 2003, Fanlight Productions.
Stolen Lives
Takes a hard look at child prostitution through the eyes of the teenaged boys and girls who are being exploited in the fast-growing business of selling children for sex in North America. 47 minutes, 1999, Fanlight Productions.
Hide and Seek
Su Friedrich’s brilliant new film, Hide and Seek, mixes documentary and fiction to create a fascinating portrait of lesbian childhood. Women Make Movies, 65 minutes, 1997.
24 Girls
Set on the borderland between childhood and adolescence, between dream and reality, Eva Ilona Brzeski’s 24 Girls presents fleeting glimpses of girls on the threshold of maturity and the concomitant loss of innocence. One by one, pre-adolescent girls take the stage to announce and execute their chosen performances, from dancing to singing, poetry reading to storytelling, simultaneously revealing both unhindered childlike freedom and dawning self-consciousness. Women Make Movies, 29 minutes, 1998.
Chain of Love
A film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how the international trade in love and care affects the women involved, their families, and families in the West. First Run Films, 50 min, 2001.
A Child's Century of War
Takes the viewer on a journey through the past century - the bloodiest in history - from the perspective of children, and tells their stories in their voices. First Run Films, 90 min, 2001.
Our House
A look at children who live in Gay and Lesbian households. First Run Films.
A Gang for Good
Investigates the last self-governing "junior republic" in the country. First Run Films, 58 min, 1992.
Seventeen
High school seniors hurtling toward maturity experience joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. First Run Films.
Tikinagan
Reveals the challenges faced by a native run child care agency in northwestern Ontario. First Run Films.
Gorgeous
Animated film by Kaz Cooke, whose character Hermoine, the Modern Girl, tackles plastic surgery, beauty therapy, and bulimia in a feral fit of inadequacy. First Run Films.
Popular Films
Billy Elliot | http://www.billyelliot.com/
Billy Elliot is the heartwarming story of a young boy from a working-class
family who discovers a passion that will change his life forever. 2000.
Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University | children.camden.rutgers.edu/
Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley | wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/index.html
Children in Urban America Project | xserver1.its.mu.edu/intro.bsp
Children's Environments Research Group | www.cerg1.org
Children's Urban Geographies Project | www.geog.buffalo.edu/research/geokids/
Connect for Kids | www.connectforkids.org/
First International Conference on Children's Rights & Education for the 21st Century | 21stcenturyconference.tamucc.edu
The Future of Children Project at Princeton | www.futureofchildren.org
HOT: Humanities Out There | yoda.hnet.uci.edu/hot
Materials
for the Study of Childhood at Princeton | www.princeton.edu/~children
Norwegian Center for Child Research (NOSEB) | www.svt.ntnu.no/noseb/english/
Reclaiming
Childhood: A symposium on Early Childhood Care and Education in India | www.india-seminar.com/2005/546.htm
CHILD: Consortium for Health, Intervention, Learning and Development
| http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/CHILD/about_child.htm
Jack
Straw Productions | www.jackstraw.org/main.html
A non-profit, audio arts center serving artists and communities
in the Northwest since 1962.
Langston
Hughes Performing Arts Center | www.cityofseattle.net/parks/centers/langston.htm
Richard Hugo House
| www.hugohouse.org
Seattle members organization providing support, advice, and a variety of programs
for writers and the local community.
911 Media Arts Center
| www.911media.org
An Independent Film, Video and Multimedia resource in
Seattle.
Northwest Film
Forum | www.nwfilmforum.org
Seattle’s home for film arts.
Seattle Young People’s
Project | www.sypp.org
The
Advancement Project | www.advancementproject.org
Youth in Focus | www.youthinfocus.org
Bridges | www.bridgesweb.org
Art Corps | www.artcorps.org
Arts Corps offers free arts education classes to kids in grades K-12 in King County, WA.
Washington Art Education Association | www.waea.net
The Washington Art Education Association promotes K-12 visual arts education.
Minnesota Works Together | www.http://blog.lib.umn.edu/victor/
publicengagement/2006/04/kellogg_foundation_grant_for_m.html
An initiative by the University of Minnesota's Center for Democracy and Citizenship to strengthen civic life in Minnesota.
Common Action | http://www.commonaction.org:80/publications.htm
CommonAction develops strategic training, consulting, implementation, and evaluation services for those who are most capable of facilitating society-wide youth engagement, including schools, community organizations, and government agencies.
New American Dream
www.newdream.org/kids
Neighborhood House
www.nhwa.org
Reclaiming Childhood is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project that examines the changing nature of American childhood. Under the auspices of the Simpson Center, Project Director Katharyne Mitchell aims to engage faculty from the University of Washington with students, parents, mentors, teachers, and administrators in a discussion of the multiple factors affecting childhood and schooling in the contemporary era.
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