HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1970
• Professor: Krys Verrall

Document Summary

Master narrative: master narrative: children and childhood timeless, course counter argument, experiences of childhood not universal. Woodland first nations (mintz: ideas about children/childhood historical. Locke blank slate (jenkins: winter, focus on the present x2, representation in contemporary children"s literature and visual texts, research. Practice as adult researchers, conducting research learning about young people: unit 2 adult memory weeks 13 to 17, unit 3 visual culture weeks 18 to 22. Individual and collective memory: adult memory, memory-work, childhood-in-memory, history and myth, deliberate remembering, misremembering, what adults remember, nostalgia. Summary: power relationship is in play, ethical research is crucial for researchers in children"s studies, adult memory is one way of conducting ethical research, think critically about childhood where you are working with your own memory. Shea & whitla: five levels of reading (excerpt chapter 4 foundations)