Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aitken, Sue.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

Online Resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice is an innovative and lively text which allows complex and challenging issues within childhood studies to be explored using the medium of filmed drama. By utilising popular culture, this book provides accessible narratives to students and lecturers needing to engage with complex theoretical ideas. In exposing theories to tangible situations often from more than one perspective in films, readers are helped to identify and recognise how theories about children and childhood can be applied. Each chapter uses a specific film to provide the basis for discussion in order to explore and analyse key concepts within childhood studies which include identity, social construction, families, political and biological narratives, children's rights and participation. A range of international films are used including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Rabbit Proof Fence , The Hunger Games and The Red Balloon . First introducing the theoretical perspective to be discussed, chapters also include a contextual explanation of the film and list the specific scenes that will be used to guide students through. Concluding with discussion questions, students are asked to consider how the theories discussed might be translated in to their own experiences of children, childhood and practice. Not only supporting understanding of core principles and key ideas across any childhood studies degree, this book supports students throughout their university career and beyond by engaging with the journey of becoming a graduate as well as discussion of workplace issues and concepts after graduation.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Contributors

Introduction

Part One: Becoming a Graduate

Chapter 1: The Journey to Graduateness: Educating Rita

Part Two: Early Childhood and Child Development

Chapter 2: Using Bourdieu to ExploreIdentity and Assumption: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Chapter 3: State Paternalism, Postcolonial Theory and Curricula Content: Rabbit- Proof Fence

Chapter 4: Attachment, Transitional Objects and Relationships: The Red Balloon

Chapter 5: Attachment, Personality and Deviant Behaviour: We Need to Talk about Kevin

Part Three: Adolescence, Perception and Consequence

Chapter 6: Future- Proofing Children and Families: Minority Report

Chapter 7: Questions of Identity: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Chapter 8: The Dystopian State and the Safeguarding of (Normalized) Childhoods: The Hunger Games

Chapter 9: Gender, Performativity and Society: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Part Four: Becoming a Practitioner

Chapter 10: Becoming a Graduate: Using All the Tools in the Toolbox: Danny's Story

PART ONE Becoming a Graduate

1 The Journey to Graduateness: Educating Rita

The film

Social and academic success when studying for a degree

Communities of speech and self-identity

Motivation, self-regulation and self-efficacy

Community and community of learners

Habitus and cultural capital

Feedback dialogues and reflective practice

Conclusion

PART TWO Early Childhood and Child Development

2 Using Bourdieu to Explore Identity and Assumption: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Bourdieu: Power, structure and agency

Social status and parenting

Poverty, educational achievement and life chances

Playing the game

Conclusion.

3 State Paternalism, Postcolonial Theory and Curricula Content: Rabbit-Proof Fence

State paternalism

Intervention versus freedom

Postcolonialism

4 Attachment, Transitional Objects and Relationships: The Red Balloon

Attachment

Transitional phenomena and object attachment

Friendships and relationships, imaginary friends and paracosms

Imaginary friends and paracosms

Transition and the key person role

Concluding thoughts

5 Attachment, Personality and Deviant Behaviour: We Need to Talk about Kevin

Depictions of children as evil

Links to theory and literature

Nature versus nurture

Nurture and motherhood

The Importance of attachment

Alternative Explanations

Terrorism and the threat of indoctrination

Lessons from philosophy

PART THREE Adolescence, Perception and Consequence

6 Future-Proofing Children and Families: Minority Report

Making sense of the film

Monitoring, closed circuit television and surveillance

Surveillance and controls in schools

Risk and prediction: Profiling individuals and populations

Managing and monitoring 'dangerous' populations

Children as a dangerous population

Modern-day youth culture and moral panics

'Troubled' and 'dysfunctional' families

Muslims, terrorism, ethnicity and difference

7 Questions of Identity: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Theories of identity

Power, communities and identity

Identity challenge and change

Rites of passage

Culture clash and identity

Hogwarts as a community of practice

Concluding remarks

8 The Dystopian State and the Safeguarding of (Normalized) Childhoods: The Hunger Games

This chapter considers the following

Growing up in District 12.

The Capitol, cultural capital and the state's role in supporting social mobility

The Hunger Games and the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Material welfare

Protection from violence: Children and combat

The individual and the state

9 Gender, Performativity and Society: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Gender, gender identity and sexual orientation

Language and power

Queer theory and sexual identity

The National Curriculum, sexual identity and sexual orientation

Queering education

PART FOUR Becoming a Practitioner

10 Becoming a Graduate: Using All the Tools in the Toolbox: Danny's Story

Attachment issues and safeguarding children

Transitions and looked-after children

Identity

The role of the state: Safeguarding and child protection

Praxis

Concluding Remarks

References

Index.

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ISBN:

9781474274586

1474274587

9781474274579

1474274579

OCLC:

1016156263