Childism
Folks listen up and take notice! If you are a parent, teacher, caretaker of children, or at all interested in the welfare of children in any way, and you care…
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May 30, 2018
What are the essential needs and assets of children in relation to the arts, education and culture in order for all children to become creative, visionary, interdependent people capable of participating in democratic, sustainable, equitable, multi-cultural, vibrant communities? Let’s explore how childhood is represented in culture and how this informs the way we take care of and educate children. What does “growing up” mean and what could it mean? I outline practical strategies to nurture, support, inspire, encourage and cultivate “habitudes” that all children need to grow up and become the wonderful human beings they already are. How can we hand over the artistic means of production to the children we would liberate from dominant forms of control and power? How can we help them become the co-creators of new worlds and wise stewards of the earth?
Children in Public Marches
I just want to throw this question out there: what are your thoughts about bringing children along to protest marches? One of the general lines of inquiry that I want…
February 11, 2018
Natality
The wonderful idea of the month is "natality." Specifically, I am referring to Hannah Arendt's development of the term from the notion of human birth where, "we are all the…
February 11, 2018
Interpellation
Interpellation This is the first entry in an ongoing series of important, "wonderful," significant ideas in childhood, culture, teaching and learning. “Interpellation” is a fundamental idea in the solicitude of…
December 10, 2017
Child as Ideal Origin
Child as Ideal Origin This section of Children-Culture-Learning is dedicated to investigating different representations of childhood in contemporary culture. I am primarily interested in how different representations and figurations of…
December 10, 2017