"The modern world is increasingly urban. Yet for the majority of the earth's children (age 0-19), the rural remains a feature of their lives. Even people who have migrated to the cities come from (and bring along) the rural. They travel back to visit family, or they bring their customs into the city with them. Rural life can thus continue to occupy a space in memory and through photographs and other artefacts, even if migration practices and the world of the digital means that tehre are fewer physical and mental traces of it. Visual Encounters and Rural Childhood brings together visual studies…mehr
"The modern world is increasingly urban. Yet for the majority of the earth's children (age 0-19), the rural remains a feature of their lives. Even people who have migrated to the cities come from (and bring along) the rural. They travel back to visit family, or they bring their customs into the city with them. Rural life can thus continue to occupy a space in memory and through photographs and other artefacts, even if migration practices and the world of the digital means that tehre are fewer physical and mental traces of it. Visual Encounters and Rural Childhood brings together visual studies and children's studies to look at images of childhood as an entry point to study rurality and rural life. With an impressively global roster of chapter authors andvisual culture ranging from film to children's literature to cell phone video, the voices of the children remain central in this investigation into what we can learn about rural life through the media from and about children"--
APRIL MANDRONA is an assistant professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. She is the editor of Canadian Art Teacher. CLAUDIA MITCHELL is a James McGill Professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the editor-in-chief of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the author or coeditor of numerous books.
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Contents Preface Forward 1. Introduction: Beginnings Part I Images and Imaginings in the Study of Rural Childhoods 2. Pastoral Visions of Childhood: Selling Suburbia as Home in the American Countryside Holley Wlodarczyk 3. Educating for the World Beyond: Challenging Idyllic Images of the Rural School Jonathan Kresmer 4. Nature Lovers as Nation Lovers in Canadian TV’s The Forest Rangers (1963–1965) Jennifer VanderBurgh 5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti: The Cost of Life Renee Jackson & April Mandrona 6. Patriot Boys and Pioneer Girls: Christian Homeschool Texts, Gender, and the American Rural Idyll Elizabeth Shively 7. Rural Girlhoods in Picturebooks: Visual Constructions of Social Practices Karen Eppley Part II Acts of Memory and Imagination 8. The Place of Girls? Collective Memory Work in the Study of Portrayals of Rural Girlhood in Swedish Child and Youth Literature Eva Söderberg, Sara Nyhlén, Katja Gillander Gådin, & Katarina Giritli Nygren 9. I Am a Child of Back-to-the-Landers Sheilah Wilson 10. Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana / “Pictures Woke the People Up”: Revisiting Inuit Childhoods through Facebook Wendy Ewald & Eric Gottesman Part III How We See It: Children’s Participation in Studying Rural Childhoods 11. A Tale of Two Kindergartens: Visual Representations of Slovenian Children’s Daily Lives in a Rural and an Urban Setting Barbara Turk Niskä 12. The Story of Peter Both-in-One: Using Visual Storytelling Methods to Understand Resilience among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Young Children in Rural New England Sally Campbell Galman 13. Growing up Rural in South Africa: On Using Cellphilms to Engage Children’s Ideas of Social Spaces Naydene de Lange 14. Image-Based Research: What Does Childhood Look Like in a Small Village? Irina Kosterina 15. Reimagining Rural Childhoods through Participatory Video and Global Education Kelly Royds 16. The Perfect Computer? Children’s Experiences with ICT in Rural Colombia Diana Carolina Garcia Gomez and Helle Strandgaard Jensen Index Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
Contents Preface Forward 1. Introduction: Beginnings Part I Images and Imaginings in the Study of Rural Childhoods 2. Pastoral Visions of Childhood: Selling Suburbia as Home in the American Countryside Holley Wlodarczyk 3. Educating for the World Beyond: Challenging Idyllic Images of the Rural School Jonathan Kresmer 4. Nature Lovers as Nation Lovers in Canadian TV’s The Forest Rangers (1963–1965) Jennifer VanderBurgh 5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti: The Cost of Life Renee Jackson & April Mandrona 6. Patriot Boys and Pioneer Girls: Christian Homeschool Texts, Gender, and the American Rural Idyll Elizabeth Shively 7. Rural Girlhoods in Picturebooks: Visual Constructions of Social Practices Karen Eppley Part II Acts of Memory and Imagination 8. The Place of Girls? Collective Memory Work in the Study of Portrayals of Rural Girlhood in Swedish Child and Youth Literature Eva Söderberg, Sara Nyhlén, Katja Gillander Gådin, & Katarina Giritli Nygren 9. I Am a Child of Back-to-the-Landers Sheilah Wilson 10. Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana / “Pictures Woke the People Up”: Revisiting Inuit Childhoods through Facebook Wendy Ewald & Eric Gottesman Part III How We See It: Children’s Participation in Studying Rural Childhoods 11. A Tale of Two Kindergartens: Visual Representations of Slovenian Children’s Daily Lives in a Rural and an Urban Setting Barbara Turk Niskä 12. The Story of Peter Both-in-One: Using Visual Storytelling Methods to Understand Resilience among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Young Children in Rural New England Sally Campbell Galman 13. Growing up Rural in South Africa: On Using Cellphilms to Engage Children’s Ideas of Social Spaces Naydene de Lange 14. Image-Based Research: What Does Childhood Look Like in a Small Village? Irina Kosterina 15. Reimagining Rural Childhoods through Participatory Video and Global Education Kelly Royds 16. The Perfect Computer? Children’s Experiences with ICT in Rural Colombia Diana Carolina Garcia Gomez and Helle Strandgaard Jensen Index Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
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