Title & Author:

Designing modern childhoods : history, space, and the material culture of children / edited by Marta Gutman, Ning de Coninck-Smith.

Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.

Description:

xvi, 346 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Series:

The Rutgers series in childhood studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Good to think with : history, space, and modern childhood / Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith -- Connecting with the landscape : campfires and youth culture at American summer camps, 1890-1950 / Abigail A. Van Slyck -- A (better) home away from home : the emergence of children's hospitals in an age of women's reform / David C. Sloane -- Sick children and the thresholds of domesticity : the Dawson-Harrington families at home / Annmarie Adams and Peter Gossage -- The "Meyers Park experiment" in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913-1916 / Anéne Cusins-Lewer and Julia Gatley -- A breath of fresh air : open-air schools in Europe / Anne-Marie Châtelet -- Molding the republican generation : the landscapes of learning in early republican Turkey / Zeynep Kezer -- Nomadic schools in Senegal : manifestations of integration or ritual performance? / Kristine Juul -- Adventure playgrounds and postwar reconstruction / Roy Kozlovsky -- The view from the back step : White children learn about race in Johannesburg's suburban homes / Rebecca Ginsburg -- Children and the Rosenwald schools of the American South / Mary S. Hoffschwelle -- The geographies and identities of street girls in Indonesia / Harriot Beazley -- Coming of age in suburbia : gifting the consumer child / Alison J. Clarke -- Inscribing Nordic childhoods at McDonald's / Helene Brembeck -- "Board with the world" : youthful approaches to landscapes and mediascapes / Olav Christensen -- Migrating media : anime media mixes and the childhood imagination / Mizuko Ito -- Epilogue: The islanding of children : reshaping the mythical landscapes of childhood / John R. Gillis.

Summary:

In industrialised democracies, a broad concensus developed that children should not work, but learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. This text extracts common threads in children's understandings of their material worlds and shows how the experience of modernity varies for young people.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780813541952 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0813541956 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780813541969 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0813541964 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Children History.
Children Social conditions.
Children Social life and customs.
Architecture and children.
Children's paraphernalia.
Child consumers.
Children and adults History.
Enfants Conditions sociales.
Architecture et enfants.
Enfants Objets personnels.
Enfants consommateurs.
Enfants et adultes Histoire.
children.
social conditions.
planning.
case studies.
history.
Children
Children and adults
Kind
Family members.
Barn historia.
Arkitektur historia.
Dawson, John William, Sir, 1820-1899 Homes and haunts

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Gutman, Marta.
De Coninck-Smith, Ning.
Rutgers series in childhood studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274693
Call No.: BIB 208539
Status: Available