his thoroughly researched work analyzes eighteenth-century Dutch children’s literature and convincingly places it within several interrelated contexts: the political and economic conditions of the Dutch Republic, Enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy, the transnational nature of children’s literature of the period and, perhaps most importantly, the concept of children’s agency. The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications
{"title":"Protestant Children, Missions and Education in the British World by Hugh Morrison (review)","authors":"H. Keon","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"his thoroughly researched work analyzes eighteenth-century Dutch children’s literature and convincingly places it within several interrelated contexts: the political and economic conditions of the Dutch Republic, Enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy, the transnational nature of children’s literature of the period and, perhaps most importantly, the concept of children’s agency. The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"45 1","pages":"170 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87544851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual Violence in Australia, 1970s–1980s: Rape and Child Sexual Abuse by Lisa Featherstone (review)","authors":"Shurlee Swain","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"129 1","pages":"151 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73502836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen's Land by Emma D. Watkins (review)","authors":"Catherine Gay","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"41 1","pages":"174 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81268098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day ed. by Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie (review)","authors":"Anna Larsson","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"13 1","pages":"156 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79198135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Lindgren, Sara Backman Prytz, Anna Westberg-Broström
Abstract:In this article, we juxtapose Norman Fairclough's (1992) critical discourse analysis with the history of childhood to analyze children's and adults' agency in a Swedish kindergarten during the 1930s. We use a primary source on child observation to study the role of initiatives—i.e., actions—in a situation where children were playing kindergarten. We are chiefly interested in the new insights that we can gain about children's and adults' agency when studying initiatives as a form of agency involving compliance (Gleason 2016). The article shows that compliance with a situation could be part of how a child could contribute to, and build, a shared preschool identity formed by an interdependence that included both children and adults. The focus is not on whether a child could play an agentic role in relation to adults, but rather on how the collective decision making involving children and adults was affected by their respective capacities to contribute. In addition to analyzing social interactions, we suggest that similar sources—i.e., historical child observations—could be used for transnational investigations of children's and adults' everyday lives in early childhood institutions in creative ways.
{"title":"Observed Children at Play: Complex Relations of Agency in a 1930s' Kindergarten","authors":"A. Lindgren, Sara Backman Prytz, Anna Westberg-Broström","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, we juxtapose Norman Fairclough's (1992) critical discourse analysis with the history of childhood to analyze children's and adults' agency in a Swedish kindergarten during the 1930s. We use a primary source on child observation to study the role of initiatives—i.e., actions—in a situation where children were playing kindergarten. We are chiefly interested in the new insights that we can gain about children's and adults' agency when studying initiatives as a form of agency involving compliance (Gleason 2016). The article shows that compliance with a situation could be part of how a child could contribute to, and build, a shared preschool identity formed by an interdependence that included both children and adults. The focus is not on whether a child could play an agentic role in relation to adults, but rather on how the collective decision making involving children and adults was affected by their respective capacities to contribute. In addition to analyzing social interactions, we suggest that similar sources—i.e., historical child observations—could be used for transnational investigations of children's and adults' everyday lives in early childhood institutions in creative ways.","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"48 1","pages":"115 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89246316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Sachs, Hayley Keon, K. Taylor, Catherine Gay, L. Mahood, A. Kendrick, G. Argo, Aishwarya Ramachandran, P. Vertinsky, C. Larochelle, Robert M. Twiss, A. Daniels, A. Lindgren, Sara Backman Prytz, Anna Westberg-Broström, Corrine Matthews, Shurlee Swain, Darcy R. Fryer, Emily Hamilton-Honey, Anna Larsson, J. Neubauer, David Nasaw, Loretta A. Dolan, Aisling Shalvey, Viktoriya Yakovlyeva
Abstract:In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, children were susceptible to deadly infectious diseases. An increasing focus on the health of children led to the opening of fever hospitals, lock hospitals, sanatoria, and convalescent homes. This paper addresses the impact of infectious diseases on children in Scotland: their proximity to death, their experiences of medical treatment in hospital, the hospital regimes, and their separation from families. It will show how advances in sanitation, housing, medicine, and medical practice led to the demise of these types of hospital settings in the second half of the twentieth century, providing thought-provoking context to the COVID-19 pandemic.
{"title":"The Birth Certificate: An American History by Susan J. Pearson (review)","authors":"M. Sachs, Hayley Keon, K. Taylor, Catherine Gay, L. Mahood, A. Kendrick, G. Argo, Aishwarya Ramachandran, P. Vertinsky, C. Larochelle, Robert M. Twiss, A. Daniels, A. Lindgren, Sara Backman Prytz, Anna Westberg-Broström, Corrine Matthews, Shurlee Swain, Darcy R. Fryer, Emily Hamilton-Honey, Anna Larsson, J. Neubauer, David Nasaw, Loretta A. Dolan, Aisling Shalvey, Viktoriya Yakovlyeva","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, children were susceptible to deadly infectious diseases. An increasing focus on the health of children led to the opening of fever hospitals, lock hospitals, sanatoria, and convalescent homes. This paper addresses the impact of infectious diseases on children in Scotland: their proximity to death, their experiences of medical treatment in hospital, the hospital regimes, and their separation from families. It will show how advances in sanitation, housing, medicine, and medical practice led to the demise of these types of hospital settings in the second half of the twentieth century, providing thought-provoking context to the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 114 - 115 - 133 - 134 - 150 - 151 - 152 - 152 - 154 - 154 - 156 - 156 - 158 - 158 - 160 - 160 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78504076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
his thoroughly researched work analyzes eighteenth-century Dutch children’s literature and convincingly places it within several interrelated contexts: the political and economic conditions of the Dutch Republic, Enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy, the transnational nature of children’s literature of the period and, perhaps most importantly, the concept of children’s agency. The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications
{"title":"Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment: Literacy, Agency and Progress in Eighteenth-Century Children's Books by Feike Dietz (review)","authors":"Karen L. Taylor","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"his thoroughly researched work analyzes eighteenth-century Dutch children’s literature and convincingly places it within several interrelated contexts: the political and economic conditions of the Dutch Republic, Enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy, the transnational nature of children’s literature of the period and, perhaps most importantly, the concept of children’s agency. The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"114 1","pages":"172 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79184843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In the 1950s and '60s, Brazil experienced rapid economic growth and modernization under a policy of "developmentalism" that privileged young workers and gave the teenaged population unprecedented consumer power. This newfound economic status lent cultural prestige to the internationally informed teen culture of the era and laid the foundations for cross-class unity to fight the military dictatorship of the late twentieth century.
{"title":"Teenagers in Development: The Economic and Cultural Power of Brazilian Youth in the 1950s and '60s","authors":"A. M. Daniels","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the 1950s and '60s, Brazil experienced rapid economic growth and modernization under a policy of \"developmentalism\" that privileged young workers and gave the teenaged population unprecedented consumer power. This newfound economic status lent cultural prestige to the internationally informed teen culture of the era and laid the foundations for cross-class unity to fight the military dictatorship of the late twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"41 1","pages":"114 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76275815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys by Vincent DiGirolamo (review)","authors":"David Nasaw","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"22 1","pages":"160 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72769525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:We know that the settler societies known as Quebec and Canada were imperialist during the "new imperialism" era, but do we really know the process through which they became imperialist? During this period, schools provided the geographic knowledge and emotional place-attachment necessary for the consolidation of settler-colonialism. At the same time, youth imagined their future life in an interconnected world geography that they believed belonged to them. My article aims to understand how geographical knowledge—imperial, missionary, and literary—was transmitted to young people through the school system and how they integrated and appropriated this geographical imagination.
{"title":"Empire, Colonialism, and Place-Attachment in Young Minds: Quebec Students' Imaginative Travels in the Age of the New Imperialism","authors":"C. Larochelle, Robert M. Twiss","doi":"10.1353/hcy.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:We know that the settler societies known as Quebec and Canada were imperialist during the \"new imperialism\" era, but do we really know the process through which they became imperialist? During this period, schools provided the geographic knowledge and emotional place-attachment necessary for the consolidation of settler-colonialism. At the same time, youth imagined their future life in an interconnected world geography that they believed belonged to them. My article aims to understand how geographical knowledge—imperial, missionary, and literary—was transmitted to young people through the school system and how they integrated and appropriated this geographical imagination.","PeriodicalId":91623,"journal":{"name":"The journal of the history of childhood and youth","volume":"4 3","pages":"70 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72544190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}