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From: Perry Nodelman <perry_nodelman>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:20:40 -0500
On 20-Jul-09, at 2:58 PM, bkerrjung at gmail.com wrote:
>
> One question I have for Perry is whether he's noticed a real
> difference in how easily children could be manipulated once they
> knew that that's what was going on. As a college English teacher, I
> found that my classes had little trouble dissecting television ads,
> considering their particular appeals, how they tried to manipulate
> viewers. I didn't need to teach them this stuff'; they came to class
> already, apparently, savvy. But did this knowledge change their
> consumer behaviour? Based on the shoes they wore and the beverages
> they drank, it did not seem so.
As a literary critic, my focus is firmly placed on the readers texts imply--I can't claim any special expertise about how young people actually respond to texts or what effect it has on them, beyond my own small experience of the three adult human beings who are still my children and were once young. Those three certainly grew up to be as sceptical anti-consumers of thoughtless manipulations as, I hope, their parents are. We sometimes all still sit around and make nasty comments about the bilge we're watching on TV just as we did when they young, and their shoes and drink choices seem quite free of brand consciousness (except maybe for single malt scotches).
But I've always assumed that I can best do my work with texts if i don't presume to speculate about how children generally might actually respond to them. I just don't know. I don't think anybody ever does in advance of a particular child's specific response. As I was constantly telling students in my children's literature courses, there is no such thing as a children. All I know and can know and try to help others to perceive is what the texts imply they hope will happen to their readers.
Perry
_____________ Perry Nodelman http://pernodel.wordpress.com/
Book Trailers: The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3t7JAfPQeA The Ghosthunters2: The Curse of the Evening Eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qapDE1Kwnis The Ghosthunters I: The Proof that Ghosts Exist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0ow7oQV7k
Received on Wed 22 Jul 2009 10:20:40 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:20:40 -0500
On 20-Jul-09, at 2:58 PM, bkerrjung at gmail.com wrote:
>
> One question I have for Perry is whether he's noticed a real
> difference in how easily children could be manipulated once they
> knew that that's what was going on. As a college English teacher, I
> found that my classes had little trouble dissecting television ads,
> considering their particular appeals, how they tried to manipulate
> viewers. I didn't need to teach them this stuff'; they came to class
> already, apparently, savvy. But did this knowledge change their
> consumer behaviour? Based on the shoes they wore and the beverages
> they drank, it did not seem so.
As a literary critic, my focus is firmly placed on the readers texts imply--I can't claim any special expertise about how young people actually respond to texts or what effect it has on them, beyond my own small experience of the three adult human beings who are still my children and were once young. Those three certainly grew up to be as sceptical anti-consumers of thoughtless manipulations as, I hope, their parents are. We sometimes all still sit around and make nasty comments about the bilge we're watching on TV just as we did when they young, and their shoes and drink choices seem quite free of brand consciousness (except maybe for single malt scotches).
But I've always assumed that I can best do my work with texts if i don't presume to speculate about how children generally might actually respond to them. I just don't know. I don't think anybody ever does in advance of a particular child's specific response. As I was constantly telling students in my children's literature courses, there is no such thing as a children. All I know and can know and try to help others to perceive is what the texts imply they hope will happen to their readers.
Perry
_____________ Perry Nodelman http://pernodel.wordpress.com/
Book Trailers: The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3t7JAfPQeA The Ghosthunters2: The Curse of the Evening Eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qapDE1Kwnis The Ghosthunters I: The Proof that Ghosts Exist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0ow7oQV7k
Received on Wed 22 Jul 2009 10:20:40 AM CDT
