Call for Papers for Special Issue on "A British Childhood? Some Historical Reflections on Continuities and Discontinuities in the Culture of Anglophone Childhood"; Deadline: 6 May 2019

Michelle Cai Announcement
Location
Switzerland
Subject Fields
Sociology, Childhood and Education, Psychology, Public Policy

Dear colleagues,

This special edition of Genealogy will consider the history of childhood through a focus upon continuities and discontinuities in British and affiliated Anglophone cultures. It will begin with a reflection upon the changing nature of childhood in Britain, and the traces that previous generations of children have left in ‘folk’ and nursery tales and rhymes, some of which were taken into British colonial culture, in the US in particular (Not just ‘once’ upon a time by Pam Jarvis).

Reflecting the changes in childhood, starting from the later period of ‘enlightenment’ the authors will consider the conscious recognition of the particular needs of young children in the work of the London Foundling hospital (Child Abandonment in England, 1743-1834: The Case of the London Foundling Hospital by Claire Phillips) and the philosophical influences on thinking about childhood that led to such development (Susan Isaacs, child of the late Victorian age and pioneering educational thinker:  some social and literary influences on the development of her philosophy by Philip Hood and Kristina Tobutt).

The ways in which discussions took place about the education and care of very young children in the nineteenth century will be examined. Yinka Olusoga’s Younger Infants in the Elementary School: Discursively Constructing the Under-Fives in Institutional Spaces and Practices will consider how young children were reconstructed as ‘scholars’ by Victorian industrialists, and Betty Liebovich will explore an early twentieth century development upon this construction, which prepared the ground for the modern British nursery school in her article Margaret McMillan’s Contributions to Cultures of Childhood.

Finally, Jonathan Glazzard will explore a contemporary Anglophone childhood British and American concern, that of mental health difficulties amongst children and young people, picking up on the threads of continuity and discontinuity introduced in Pam Jarvis’ reflection upon the fading of traditional folk narratives in the 21st century. In his article The changes in children and young people’s mental health over time he will consider changing attitudes to mental health problems with respect to the complex and interconnected process of stigmatisation and medicalisation from the 19th century to the present.

Overview of topics covered by this special issue: current and historical constructions of childhood; childhood play and recreation; childhood and ‘folk’ narratives; philosophies of childhood; childhood and industrialisation; childhood and post industrialisation; childhood education; childhood health; cultures of childcare

Dr. Pam Jarvis
Guest Editor

 

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Contact Information

Anyone who has interests in submitting, please feel free to contact the Guest Editor Dr. Pam Jarvis (p.jarvis@leedstrinity.ac.uk) or the Managing Editor Ms. Allie Shi (genealogy@mdpi.com).

 

 

 

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