globalization, history, theory & writing
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Globalization, History, Theory & Writing. The “Local” and The “Global” of Contemporary Children’s Culture. Overview:. This lecture will highlight: Contemporary children’s culture on both a local and global scale - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Globalization, History, Theory & Writing
The “Local” and The “Global” of Contemporary
Children’s Culture
Overview:
• This lecture will highlight:1. Contemporary children’s culture on both a local and
global scale
2. How international migration (of more than just people) affects children and their culture
3. The challenges globalization presents to researchers working with children
4. The importance of context and ethnography to conducting research with children
To do this we will unpack
1. Globalization2. The Three voices of CCC:
i. institutional (about children)ii. Institutional (for children)iii. Children’s voices
As seen through
• The local and the global of children’s rights• The local and the global of popular culture
• The local and the global of research methodologies
GLOBALIZATION
Is Really About Voice, Power, & Imperialism
Its a Loaded Term -As difficult to define as “culture”
BASIC METAPHORS:• Removal of barriers• The world as Infinitely smaller/ infinitely larger
EARLY INTERPRETATIONS• As a global village (McLuhan, 1962 )• As disjuncture: ie. “5 scapes” (Appadiurai,, 1990)• As advanced capitalism (Jameson, 1991)• Cultural Imperialism (Schiller, 1991)
MORE RECENT RE-INTERPRETATIONS• As hybridization ( Nederveen Pieterse, 1994)• As a process of negotiation (Storey, 2003)• As a space for resistance (Kahn & Kellner, 2005,
Buckingham 2010)
OUR definition of globalization
Its Frames The Child’s Experience
• “It appals us that the West can desire, extract and claim ownership of our ways of knowing, our imagery, the things we create and produce, and then simultaneously reject the people who created and developed those ideas and seek to deny them further opportunities to be creators of their own culture and own nations.”
(Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 26)
History, Theory, & Writing
We must flip the map
History, Theory, & Writing - Flipping the Map
CHILDREN AS:
•HEROES IN HISTORY
(Davis, 2010)
•CITIZENS IN THEORY & ACTION
(O’Neil, 2010)
•WRITERS OF THIER OWN EXPERIENCE
(Buckingham, 2010)
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The Need for Praxis & Critical Theory in Children’s Studies
“ One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion...
The starting point for organizing the program content of education or political action must be the present, existential, concrete situation, reflecting the aspirations of the people.” (Paulo Freire, 95)
The Local and The Global
• The global does not eliminate the local or its importance
• Instead it reinforces the need for authentic dialogue between: dominant and subaltern, core and periphery, oppressor and oppressed, institutions and individuals, adults and children
• Its about –voice- access- agency-
Where CCC happens
THREE VOICES