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Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods / ed. by April Mandrona, Claudia Mitchell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (268 p.) : 25 b-w figuresContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813588162
  • 9780813588186
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.2309173/4 23
LOC classification:
  • HT453 .M36 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1. Images and Imaginings in the Study of Rural Childhoods -- 2. Pastoral Visions of Childhood: Selling Suburbia as Home in the American Countryside -- 3. Educating for the World Beyond: Challenging Idyllic Images of the Rural School -- 4. Nature Lovers as Nation Lovers in Canadian TV's The Forest Rangers (1963-1965) -- 5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti:The Cost of Life -- 6. Patriot Boys and Pioneer Girls: Christian Homeschool Texts, Gender, and the American Rural Idyll -- 7. Rural Girlhoods in Picture Books: Visual Constructions of Social Practices -- 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 -- 9. I Am a Child of Back-to-the-Landers -- 10. "Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana" ("Pictures Woke the People Up"): Revisiting Innu Childhoods through Photography -- 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 -- 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 -- 13. Growing Up Rural in South Africa: On Using Cellphilms to Engage Children's Ideas of Social Spaces -- 14. Image-Based Research: What Does Childhood Look Like in a Small Village? -- 15. Reimagining Rural Childhoods through Participatory Video and Global Education -- 16. The Perfect Computer? Children's Experiences with ICT in Rural Colombia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods. Contributions look at representations and experiences of rural childhoods from both the Global North and Global South (including U.S., Canada, Haiti, India, Sweden, Slovenia, South Africa, Russia, Timor-Leste, and Colombia) and consider visuals ranging from picture books to cell phone video to television.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1. Images and Imaginings in the Study of Rural Childhoods -- 2. Pastoral Visions of Childhood: Selling Suburbia as Home in the American Countryside -- 3. Educating for the World Beyond: Challenging Idyllic Images of the Rural School -- 4. Nature Lovers as Nation Lovers in Canadian TV's The Forest Rangers (1963-1965) -- 5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti:The Cost of Life -- 6. Patriot Boys and Pioneer Girls: Christian Homeschool Texts, Gender, and the American Rural Idyll -- 7. Rural Girlhoods in Picture Books: Visual Constructions of Social Practices -- 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 -- 9. I Am a Child of Back-to-the-Landers -- 10. "Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana" ("Pictures Woke the People Up"): Revisiting Innu Childhoods through Photography -- 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 -- 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 -- 13. Growing Up Rural in South Africa: On Using Cellphilms to Engage Children's Ideas of Social Spaces -- 14. Image-Based Research: What Does Childhood Look Like in a Small Village? -- 15. Reimagining Rural Childhoods through Participatory Video and Global Education -- 16. The Perfect Computer? Children's Experiences with ICT in Rural Colombia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods. Contributions look at representations and experiences of rural childhoods from both the Global North and Global South (including U.S., Canada, Haiti, India, Sweden, Slovenia, South Africa, Russia, Timor-Leste, and Colombia) and consider visuals ranging from picture books to cell phone video to television.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

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