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The Good Childhood - What Is It? Does It Exist?

January 25th, 2007 Tana

Do school, family and society help children flourish? Or is childhood disappearing? Join us for “The Good Childhood,” a two-part panel discussion on childhood, including: school & home; work & play; marketing to kids; the history of childhood; and more. Part of the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities’ A.W. Mellon Foundation Workshops and the Humanities Forums on Contemporary Issues.  Panel discussions are at the Central Library on February 6 and 13 at 7:00 p.m.

For independent reading, try the following:

Contemporary

• Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau.
• The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman. Delacourt, 1982 version or Vintage Books, 1994 version.
• Born to Buy by Juliet Schor.
• Consuming Kids by Susan Linn.

Historical

• Centuries of Childhood; a Social History of Family Life by Philippe Aries.  Knopf, 1962.
• Medieval Childhood by Nicholas Orme. Yale University Press, 2001.

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