Children of a new world : society, culture, and globalization / Paula S. Fass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fass, Paula S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--United States--History--20th century.

Children.

Children--United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Education--United States--History--20th century.

Education.

Immigrant children--Education--United States--History--20th century.

Immigrant children.

Socialization--United States--History--20th century.

Socialization.

Children in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Children in popular culture.

Children--Social conditions--20th century.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (11 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children’s history and the history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New World to the impact of globalization on children’s lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the “work-centered” family, and the triumph of the unregulated marketplace, she argues, are revolutionizing the lives of children today.Fass begins by considering the role of the school as a fundamental component of social formation, particularly in a nation of immigrants like the United States. She goes on to examine children as both creators of culture and objects of cultural concern in America, evident in the strange contemporary fear of and fascination with child abduction, child murder, and parental kidnapping. Finally, Fass moves beyond the limits of American society and brings historical issues into the present and toward the future, exploring how American historical experience can serve as a guide to contemporary globalization as well as how globalization is altering the experience of American children and redefining childhood.Clear and scholarly, serious but witty, Children of a New World provides a foundation for future historical investigations while adding to our current understanding of the nature of modern childhood, the role of education for national identity, the crisis of family life, and the influence of American concepts of childhood on the world’s definitions of children's rights. As a new generation comes of age in a global world, it is a vital contribution to the study of childhood and globalization.

Contents:

Introduction: Children in society, culture, and the world

Immigration and education in the United States

The IQ : a cultural and historical framework

Creating new identities : youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s

Making and remaking an event : the Leopold and Loeb case in American culture

A sign of family disorder? : changing representations of parental kidnapping

Bringing it home : children, technology, and family in the post-World War II world

Children and globalization

Children in global migrations

Children of a new world.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814728529

0814728529

9780814727843

0814727840

OCLC:

782877936