EDUF1018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tabula Rasa, Peer Pressure, Papa Roach
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Exhibit a mgmt kids: scared, vulnerable. Exhibit b lion king: ambitious, eager, determined, vulnerable. Cumulative cultural text of the child : historically, there tended to be three dominant tropes of the child (sorin, 2005, the innocent child. The myth of childhood innocence provides a convenient symbolic justification for competing political agendas. Such phrases as "for the sake of the children," "for our children"s future," and "for the protection of the innocent children" are used to justify government spending cutbacks, media censorship, and government intrusions into private lives. Exhibit a: papa roach last resort: portrayed in a particular style gothic, colour of children is gone, rebelling against adults and also the rebellion against being a child. Exhibit b: ah after school: shift, sexualized females. Exhibit c mean girls: stereotyping the students finding your people"/groups, sexually active. Adult anxieties about young people are not new phenomena young people have been perceived as being ungovernable" and lacking in self-regulation".
