Year: 2022

Gallery 104E Side Exhibition

Portrayals of Childhood in Children’s Books Childhood in America has changed over time. Historical circumstances, such as war, the Industrial Revolution, economic opportunities or challenges, educational opportunities, etc., influenced what childhood looked like in different eras. In Huck’s Raft, Mintz states that “…childhood is inevitably shaped and constrained by society, time, and circumstances.” (Mintz,5) For…Continue Reading Gallery 104E Side Exhibition

Gallery 104D Side Exhibition

Forced Assimilation Through the Next Generation The main goal for Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which was founded by Captain Richard Henry Pratt in 1879, was “believing that placing Indian students in white families where they will learn a trade will help give them “independence, self-reliance and better English-speaking.” At the school, students were forced to…Continue Reading Gallery 104D Side Exhibition

Gallery 104C Side Exhibition

A History of Child Labor in the United States Educational activity: What was life like for children 100 years ago? One year, when I taught a class containing third through fifth graders, I engaged students in a thought experiment about children’s lives 100 years ago. This was an activity for the 100th Day of School…Continue Reading Gallery 104C Side Exhibition

Gallery 104 Main Exhibition

History of American Childhoods, Part 1 Curated by: Carrie, Lizzie, Jack, Khadyajah, and Julia “A Puritan childhood is as alien to twenty-first century Americans as an Indian childhood was to seventeenth-century New Englanders”- S. Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood Mintz, S. (2004). Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood. Chapters 1 –…Continue Reading Gallery 104 Main Exhibition

Museum of Childhood Visitors’ Sign-In

Welcome to CI 560 Museum of Childhood Visitors’ Sign-In! Please try to work out how to insert a photo here, along with your biographical sign-in. To edit any page, just click “edit post” in the top menu toolbar. You will need to insert 4 “blocks.” All of the block styles can be accessed by clicking…Continue Reading Museum of Childhood Visitors’ Sign-In

Gallery 103E Side Exhibition

Group E has to create the Side Exhibition by the end of Lesson 4. The Knowing Child and Children’s Media Anne Higonnet in “Knowing Childhood” states, “The world children look out toward is more divided and more diverse than the sheltered world of Romanitc childhood.” (Higonnet 212) The Romantic child is thought to be innocent….Continue Reading Gallery 103E Side Exhibition

Gallery 103D Side Exhibition

Group D has to create the Side Exhibition by the end of Lesson 4. What is age-appropriate for children? Childhood is often associated with the term innocence. When viewing children as innocent beings, adults are stating that children need to be protected and censored from realities of the world. In censoring the material that children…Continue Reading Gallery 103D Side Exhibition

Gallery 103C Side Exhibition

Group C has to create the Side Exhibition by the end of Lesson 4.   “At this critical juncture in the history of childhood, the photography of Sally Mann was bound to catalyze debate” (Higonnet, 1998, p. 194). In this week’s reading material, we were presented with photography and various photographers that were powerful but…Continue Reading Gallery 103C Side Exhibition

Gallery 103B Side Exhibition

The Knowing Child vs. The Innocent Child Cara Dore’s Entry: In literature, popular media, and film, we see iterations of the Knowing Child and the Innocent Child. According to Anne Higonnet in her book Knowing Childhood, “Unlike Romantic children who are arranged and presented as a delightful spectacle to be enjoyed, Knowing children are neither available or controllable” (Higonnet,…Continue Reading Gallery 103B Side Exhibition

Gallery 103 Main Exhibition

The Invention of the Modern Western Child, Part 2: Knowing Children and Modern Madonna Mothers Anne Higonnet, Knowing Childhood from Picturing Innocence: This History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood Maria Popova, Maurice Sendak’s Darkest, Most Controversial, Yet Most Hopeful Children’s Book  Art Spiegelman and Maurice Sendak, In the Dumps Claire Miller, The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting “The image of childhood innocence…Continue Reading Gallery 103 Main Exhibition