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From: Patrick Cox <ptcox_at_camden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:03:17 -0400
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
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Panel Description:
Children’s periodicals published in the US over the last 300 years provid e 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 magazin es 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 o f *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-cr eation of, t hat pedagogy.
Possible topics may include:
- histories or analysis of particular children’s periodicals - pedagogies in periodicals (ideological, curricular, religious, etc.) - convergences of traditional magazines and digital media - magazines produced by children - fiction and poetry in magazines - use of periodicals in classrooms - transnational periodicals - 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_at_camden.rutgers.edu b y 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
"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." Camus
"Don't let your studies interfere with your education." Henry Rutgers
"the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." of course
Received on Wed 01 Jun 2011 08:03:17 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:03:17 -0400
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
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Panel Description:
Children’s periodicals published in the US over the last 300 years provid e 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 magazin es 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 o f *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-cr eation of, t hat pedagogy.
Possible topics may include:
- histories or analysis of particular children’s periodicals - pedagogies in periodicals (ideological, curricular, religious, etc.) - convergences of traditional magazines and digital media - magazines produced by children - fiction and poetry in magazines - use of periodicals in classrooms - transnational periodicals - 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_at_camden.rutgers.edu b y 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
"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." Camus
"Don't let your studies interfere with your education." Henry Rutgers
"the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere." of course
Received on Wed 01 Jun 2011 08:03:17 AM CDT
