posted by user: patrickrutgers || 3826 views || tracked by 6 users: [display]

NeMLA 2012 : Children's Periodicals and Early Edutainment

FacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogle

Link: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies
 
When Mar 15, 2012 - Mar 18, 2012
Where Rochester, NY
Submission Deadline Sep 30, 2011
Categories    children   periodicals   literature   education
 

Call For Papers

Panel: “Fun With a Purpose”: Periodical Pedagogy and Early Edutainment

43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College


Panel Description:
Children’s periodicals published in the US over the last 300 years provide a wealth of textual and visual insight into US culture, pedagogy, and conceptions of childhood. This panel will engage with this under-examined body of texts in their most salient mode: as pedagogy. Children’s magazines have been used as instructional tools with subject matter spanning literacy, manners, morality, crafts, citizenship, “mental hygiene,” and beyond, transmitting enduring lessons in an ephemeral format. By packaging their lessons in an entertaining and disposable blend of fiction, non-fiction, images, activities, games, jokes, and riddles, these magazines can be considered a print medium precursor to “edutainment” or, as the motto of *Highlights for Children* calls it, “Fun with a purpose.” This panel is open to explorations of particular mechanisms, contents, and contexts of periodical pedagogy past and present, including examinations of child-readers’ participation in, subversion against, or re-creation of, that pedagogy.

Possible topics from all disciplines may include:
histories or analysis of particular children’s periodicals
pedagogies in periodicals (ideological, curricular, religious, etc.)
convergences of traditional magazines and digital media
pedagogy, periodicals, and power
magazines produced by children
fiction and poetry in magazines
use of periodicals in classrooms
transnational periodicals
production, distribution, and circulation of pedagogy
cross-cultural comparisons of periodical pedagogy
marginalia and ephemera
pedagogy in the home (or doctor’s office waiting room)
periodical pedagogy as pop culture
children’s responses to and uses of magazines


Please send 500-word abstracts to Patrick Cox at ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu by Sept 30. Thanks.

Patrick Cox
PhD Student
2010-2011 David K. Sengstack Fellow
Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/
2010 ChLA Hannah Beiter Graduate Student Research Award Recipient
https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies
http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickTCox/Blog

Related Resources

Mathematically Modeling Early Christian 2024   Call for Papers - Mathematically Modeling Early Christian Literature: Theories, Methods, and Future Directions
AP-EduTeach 2024   6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Education, Teaching & Technology 2024
PAKDD ECR Award 2024   CFP: 2024 PAKDD Early Career Research Award Application
CRBL 2024   International Conference on Cryptography and Blockchain
ERD 2024   The 12th International Conference Education, Reflection, Development
IJMECH 2024   International Journal of Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering
CFP The Origins of Revolution 2024   CFP: The Origins of Revolution, July 24-25, 2024 at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
NeMLA 2024   Rhetorical Circulation for Social Justice
IEEE WAIE 2024   IEEE--2024 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Education (WAIE 2024)