Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Moletsane, Relebohile -- Preface -- 1 Introduction / Mandrona, April / Mitchell, Claudia -- Part 1. Images and Imaginings in the Study of Rural Childhoods -- 2. Pastoral Visions of Childhood: Selling Suburbia as Home in the American Countryside / Wlodarczyk, Holley -- 3. Educating for the World Beyond: Challenging Idyllic Images of the Rural School / Kremser, Jonathan -- 4. Nature Lovers as Nation Lovers in Canadian TV's The Forest Rangers (1963–1965) / VanderBurgh, Jennifer -- 5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti:The Cost of Life / Jackson, Renee / Mandrona, April -- 6. Patriot Boys and Pioneer Girls: Christian Homeschool Texts, Gender, and the American Rural Idyll / Shively, Elizabeth -- 7. Rural Girlhoods in Picture Books: Visual Constructions of Social Practices / Eppley, Karen -- Part II: Acts of Memory and Imagination -- 8. The Place of Girls? Collective Memory Work in the Study of Portrayals of Rural Girlhood in Swedish Child and Youth Literature / Söderberg, Eva / Nyhlén, Sara / Gådin, Katja Gillander / Nygren, Katarina Giritli -- 9. I Am a Child of Back-to-the-Landers / Restack, Sheilah -- 10. "Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana" ("Pictures Woke the People Up"): Revisiting Innu Childhoods through Photography / Ewald, Wendy / Gottesman, Eric -- Part III: How We See It: Children's Participation in Studying Rural Childhoods -- 11. A Tale of Two Kindergartens: Visual Representations of Slovenian Children's Daily Lives in a Rural and an Urban Setting / Turk Niskač, Barbara -- 12. The Story of Peter Both-in- One: Using Visual Storytelling Methods to Understand Resilience among Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Young Children in Rural New England / Campbell Galman, Sally -- 13. Growing Up Rural in South Africa: On Using Cellphilms to Engage Children's Ideas of Social Spaces -- 14. Image-Based Research: What Does Childhood Look Like in a Small Village? / Kosterina, Irina -- 15. Reimagining Rural Childhoods through Participatory Video and Global Education / Royds, Kelly -- 16. The Perfect Computer? Children's Experiences with ICT in Rural Colombia / Carolina, Diana / Gómez, García / Strandgaard Jensen, Helle -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index