Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780415529945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 302 str.

Kate Darian-Smith; Carla Pascoe

Opis

Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore.

Recenzje

"(...) this book is undeniably an important contribution to Heritage Studies, as it offers a thorough analysis of the emerging issues of the relationship between children and cultural heritage. It is a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers and students of Heritage Studies, Childhood Studies and Children’s Histories." - Bronia Cross, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull

Spis treści

1. Children, childhood and cultural heritage: mapping the field PART I: Stories, games and memories: the intangible cultural heritage of children  2. Patrimonito leads the way: UNESCO, cultural heritage, children and youth  3. Playlore as cultural heritage: traditions and change in Australian children’s play  4. The case of the Wildcat Sailors: the hybrid lore and multimodal languages of the playground  5. The hidden heritage of mothers and teachers in the making of Japan’s superior students  6. Playing the author: Children’s creative writing, paracosms and the construction of family magazines  PART II: Sites and places: the spatial heritage and commemoration of children  7. Taking the children: children, childhood and heritage making  8. ‘Let children be children’: the place of child workers in museum exhibitions and the landscapes of the past  9. Roman children and childhood and the perception of heritage  10. Children, colonialism and commemoration  11. The last remnant of the Holocaust: representation and reality of child survivors’ lives  12. School buildings and the architectural heritage of childhood: designing mid-twentieth century schools in England  PART III: Objects and collections: the material culture of children  13. Putting away the things of childhood: museum representations of children’s cultural heritage  14. Representations of childhood at the Foundling Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, UK  15. Children as collectors of cultural heritage: Leland Stanford Jr. and his museum  16. Home and hearth: representing childhood in fin de siècle Russia  17. Material culture in North African children’s play and toy heritage