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Patrick
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PhD Candidate and Instructor, Childhood Studies
University of Minnesota, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
PhD Candidate
Thesis Title: "Highlights for Children" and the Islanding of American Childhood
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About
My research uses the children’s magazine Highlights for Children to compare childrearing practices and constructions of childhood in the US during the Cold War with post 9/11 practices and constructions. I study the magazine’s representation and promotion of “islanding” of children, which Helga Zeiher dubs the “protective and educational project of modern society.” The project is widespread in child-rearing practices from attachment parenting to helicopter parenting, but Highlights offers unique insight into the phenomenon. The “protective” social practices of islanding are generally performed by different institutions from those who plan and perform the “educational project” yet Highlights is a rare example of both sides of the islanding of childhood enacted simultaneously and led by the same body. Further, by observing what has only been studied as a sociological set of practices through Humanities-based approaches of a media text, the magazine allows us to see the evolution of the parenting style and the construction of childhood it is based on over a sixty-five year period.
My dissertation combines archival work with visual, textual, and cultural readings of Highlights for Children and other educational materials produced for use outside of classrooms with a pinch of ethnography and interviews at Highlights’ corporate and editorial offices. I work in the interstices between children's lit studies, cultural history and cultural studies, pedagogy, and popular culture and explore children's material and print cultures, edutainment, and digital literacy. In other words, this is Childhood Studies.
I also study, and am personally invested in, the thinking behind and practice of multi-disciplinary research itself, and the still unfolding history of Childhood Studies.
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