Year: 2022

The Invention of Modern Western Childhood, Part 1 Colin Heywood, A History of Childhood, pp. 1-40 Hugh Cunningham, What’s Happened to Childhood? Robin Bernstein, Let Black Kids Just be Kids This week we spend some time acquainting ourselves with ideas about Western childhood. We trace will these discourses – perhaps “myths” as Barthes might describe…Continue Reading Gallery 102 Main Exhibition

Memory and Nostalgia Jenkins, “The Innocent Child and Other Modern Myths” Mitchell and Reid-Walsh (review of) Researching Children’s Culture, chapter 2 We have come together to learn in a class entitled “Theories of Childhood.” This title is intentionally provocative, intended to move us away from what Roland Barthes called “myth” and toward the fact that there are many…Continue Reading Gallery 101 Main Exhibition