Author: Girl Scouts of the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girl Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A Five Year Experiment in Training Volunteer Group Leaders, 1922-27
Author: Girl Scouts of the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girl Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A Five Year Experiment in Training Volunteer Group Leaders, 1922-1927
Author: Elizabeth Kemper AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girl Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
States of Childhood
Author: Jennifer S. LightPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262358611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
How "virtual adulthood"--children's role play in simulated cities, states, and nations--helped construct a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American young people. A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work--passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks--inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of "junior republics" and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era’s fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light’s account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.
Youth Movements Here and Abroad
Author: Russell Sage Foundation. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Youth movements
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Bulletin of the Russell Sage Foundation Library
Author: Russell Sage Foundation. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Report
Author: Russell Sage Foundation. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Otto E. Miller, Plaintiff-Respondent, Against Fred W. Smythe, Defendant-Appellant
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description