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Globalization, History, Theory & Writing The “Local” and The “Global” of Contemporary Children’s Culture

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Globalization, History, Theory & Writing. The “Local” and The “Global” of Contemporary Children’s Culture. THREE VOICES. Institutional Voices: about children Institutional Voices: for children Children’s Voices - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Globalization, History, Theory & Writing

Globalization, History, Theory & Writing

The “Local” and The “Global” of Contemporary

Children’s Culture

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THREE VOICES

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CHILDREN’S VOICES

• what children themselves have to say about their own lives

• Because of the imbalance of power - are often produced and published with ADULT ALLIES

• Are subversive• Children are the gate keepers to this information

»Therefore it require an ethnographic approach to research

»BUT one that must be ethical, anti-oppressive, and child centered

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Using Anthropology to study children’s own culture

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The Importance of Ethnography

• Ethnography is: the study of culture

• Doing Ethnographic Research means: observing first hand and note taking/artefact collecting regarding the practices of the local culture

• Writing Ethnography: is to describe local cultures

as they are experienced and understood in the everyday lives of people of that culture.

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Spaces and Third Spaces

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A Re-Interpretation of the Public Sphere?

• Access to children’s third spaces connects to Habermas’s ideas of the public sphere (1962)

• And raises the notion that

a) Children need access to a public sphere

b) It may already exist• As Kellner argues (2000) there is

an importance of conceptualizing the public sphere as not as ONE, but as MANY, overlapping- and often in conflict

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Children’s Voicesexample: Researching WITH Children

Requires a generational and a macro approach

(James & Christensen, 2009)

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This means asking questions about research methods

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This means asking questions about research methodologies

Questions to consider

• Can the subaltern speak (Spivak, 1988)?

• What does it mean to speak back to dominant norms?

• What does it look like

when the empire writes back to the centre (Rushdie, 1982)

Spaces to find feedbacl

• David Buckingham’s work at London University, and Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media (2010)

• Or Kellner and Kahn’s work on oppositional politics on the internet (2005)

• Our students work with kids

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Youth Voices Speak Back

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Concluding Thoughts

“When indigenous peoples become the researchers and not merely the researched, the activity of research is transformed. Questions are framed differently, priorities are ranked differently, problems are defined differently, people participate on different terms.”

(Smith, 193)

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