Education Research: Childhood Studies

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BROWSE EDUCATION RESEARCH BOOKS BY CATEGORY:

HIGHER EDUCATION   //    K-12

RACE   //   GENDER    //    CHILDHOOD STUDIES   //    ART   //    LAW

PUBLIC POLICY   //    HUMAN RIGHTS   //    ETHNOGRAPHY

DISABILITY STUDIES   //    SOCIOLOGY

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The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall
How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall
The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring
Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter The ABC of It Why Children’s Books Matter Leonard S. Marcus 2019 Spring
Original artwork and materials explore children’s literature and its impact in society and culture over time Distributed for the University of Minnesota Libraries, Kerlan Collection
Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy Back to the Sandbox Art and Radical Pedagogy Jaroslav Anděl, Editor 2019 Spring
An international group of artists and scholars reflects on the nature and significance of education in contemporary society, introducing new perspectives on learning and creativity
Histories of the Transgender Child Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall
A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall
How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
A Literature of Questions: Nonfiction for the Critical Child A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall
A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall
Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall
Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state
Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring
The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals Our Gang A Racial History of The Little Rascals Julia Lee 2015 Fall
Behind the scenes of The Little Rascals and the America that made them
A Good Investment?: Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School Amy Brown 2015 Fall
How privatized education funding reinforces race and class inequities
Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall
How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys
Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Civil Rights Childhood Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Katharine Capshaw 2014 Fall
The unexpected and evocative role of children’s photographic books in cultural transformation and social change
Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Designing the Creative Child Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Amy F. Ogata 2013 Spring
The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future
Hikikomori: Adolescence without End Hikikomori Adolescence without End Saito Tamaki 2013 Spring
A best-selling work of Japanese psychology that brought attention to the widespread problem of acute social withdrawal
Police in the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban High School Police in the Hallways Discipline in an Urban High School Kathleen Nolan 2011 Fall
Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students
Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity Suspended Animation Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity Nathalie op de Beeck 2010 Fall
An innovative analysis of children’s picture books from the interwar period in America