{"id":5,"date":"2017-10-01T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:39:12","slug":"conceptual_framework","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/conceptual_framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

I use several connected themes to explore the conditions and experiences of childhood in early 20th century U.S. These can be considered to constitute a basis for further research in the emerging area of historical geographies of childhood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0Children’s mobility and migration<\/strong> experiences;<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0Systems, patterns, and experiences of social inequalities<\/strong> (e.g. race, gender, class, religion);<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0Child health and mortality<\/strong>, and how these shaped the notion of ‘childhood’;<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0Spatially varied legal and policy contexts<\/strong>, such as compulsory schooling and child labor laws; uneven categorization of ‘children’ vs. ‘adults’ by race and gender; connections to constructions of ‘the nation’, geopolitics, etc.<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Material conditions<\/strong> of urban and rural childhoods (housing quality, schooling, parks and playgrounds, environmental conditions, institutions of childhood such as orphanages);<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span>Youth media representations, advertisements, discourses, and material culture<\/strong> (books, toys, games, etc.) and their role in reflecting\/constructing an idealized ‘American’ childhood and home <\/i>place<\/i>
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    A sample data source — surveys of children in Worcester, MA on what games they played. How do these reflect and reinforce gender expectations, racial stereotypes, and cultural meanings of the place?<\/p>\n

    Croswell, T. S. 1899. Amusements of Worcester School Children, Pedagogical Seminary, 6 (3), pp. 314-371. Accessed from Hathi Trust<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I use several connected themes to explore the conditions and experiences of childhood in early 20th century U.S. These can be considered to constitute a basis for further research in the emerging area of historical geographies of childhood. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Children’s mobility and migration experiences; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Systems, patterns, and experiences of social inequalities (e.g. race, gender, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-childhoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}