Rachel Conrad, Time for childhoods: Young Poets and Questions of Agency

Höglund, Heidi

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“…Positioning poetry as a relational process, rather than an analytical or hierarchical one, is a means of cultivating young people's individual poetic agency and collaborative agency. Conrad (2020) has written about young people's expressions of agency through poetry in "assert[ing] their intentions and actions in the context of available forms, structures, and institutions" (45). As teachers, we have witnessed many young people who have lost interest in poetry or who struggle to engage with poetry as a result of their past learning experiences.…”

Section: A Relational Approach To Poetrymentioning

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Collaborative agency and relationality in a high school/college poetry partnership

Conrad

Andrews

2023

Childhood

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This essay engages with ideas of agency and relationality to reimagine possibilities for young people’s modes of learning about and creating poetry. We describe a partnership between a high school and college class in which we minimized our authority as instructors to make space for young people’s collaborative agency in shaping a poetry exchange project. Our analysis of participants’ references to relationality in a post-project survey revealed relational dimensions of participants’ learning, influencing, and creating as supported by collaborative agency.

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Section: A Relational Approach To Poetrymentioning

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Collaborative agency and relationality in a high school/college poetry partnership

Conrad

Andrews

2023

Childhood

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“…Such a perspective is a reasonable addition to the childist criticism and its focus on intergenerational dialogue. Research following this direction can be found in Karen Sánchez‐Eppler's Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth‐Century American Culture (2005), Marah Gubar's Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature (2009), a special issue of Bookbird (2017), Victoria Ford Smith's Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature (2017) and Rachel Conrad's Time for Childhoods: Young Poets and Questions of Agency (2019).…”

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Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies

Deszcz-Tryhubczak

García-González

2022

Children & Society

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In this article we share our reflections on how childism has enabled us to navigate theoretical assumptions shaping our field and develop new positions and research practices fostering child–adult interdependencies. Justyna Deszcz‐Tryhubczak has relied on childism as a framework for the introduction of participatory research with young readers as a way for advancing child–adult collaboration. Macarena García‐González has deployed childism to think about adultism and its analogies to sexism. Although we offer a critique of childism as an essentializing concept, we also show how for both of us it has served as a gateway towards other approaches, and especially post‐anthropocentric understandings both of texts, readers and the world and of our critical engagements. Finally, we argue that childism may remain a productive starting point for further openings in children's literature and culture studies and childhood studies if it becomes a plural and messy notion that questions the discourse of hope for a better future as defining children's lives.

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Rachel Conrad, Time for childhoods: Young Poets and Questions of Agency

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Collaborative agency and relationality in a high school/college poetry partnership

Collaborative agency and relationality in a high school/college poetry partnership

Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies

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