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Discussion published by K Gemmell on Monday, May 20, 2019

Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation - The Spring 2019 issue is now online! Le numéro de printemps 2019 est disponible!

Editors: Penney Clark and Mona Gleason, The University of British Columbia

Contents / Table des matières - Spring / printemps 2019

Articles

A Middle Class Farming Family Negotiates “the Rural School Problem” in Interwar Australia | Kay Whitehead

Bringing Education to the Wilderness: Teachers and Schools in the Rural Communities of British Columbia, 1936–45 | Helen Raptis

Discussion published by Mahshid Mayar on Saturday, May 4, 2019

Re: Names children invent for places that matter to them

Dear Jeremy,

I am glad the points I raised in my last comment were of interest for your work.

The Nelson Brothers collection is totally worth a visit to Amherst College, when you can. The breadth of material these boys created around their imaginary play world is both exemplary and, I am sure, common to a wider number of children than we know about -- records lost to time and to archival practices that have a marked preference for records/evidence/documents produced by adults.

Discussion published by Jeremy Burchardt on Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Names children invent for places that matter to them

I'm doing some research on the history of chidren's toponyms and wonder if anyone has come across any interesting examples? I'm particularly interested in toponyms that inscribe a wider literary, historical or geographical consciousness e.g. Ida Gandy's memoirs refer to a small conifer plantation as 'Noah's Ark'.  Quite a bit of work has been done on maps in children's literature, which often feature toponyms invented by fictional children (i.e.

Discussion published by Patrick Cox, H-NET President and Editor on Wednesday, April 17, 2019

CFP: Youth Literature and Media

The Youth Literature and Media area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is seeking proposals for papers, panels, and presentations for the 2019 MPCA/ACA Conference. We’re interested in topics that explore the many tight intersections between, or loose boundaries around, childhood, youth, and popular culture.

Discussion published by Carla Pascoe Leahy on Thursday, April 11, 2019

New 'Parenting' issue of Oral History journal

The UK-based journal Oral History have just published a special issue on ‘parenting’, co-edited by Carla Pascoe Leahy (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Australia). The issue includes papers on parenting, mothering, fathering and grandparenting across Australia, Israel, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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