Recovering Childhood: Play, Pedagogy, and the Rise of Psychological Knowledge in Contemporary Urban China

Naftali, Orna

doi:10.1177/0097700410377594

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“…The stakes of navigating media are mounting. With an increasingly restrictive outside world (Naftali, 2010), many youths turn to the internet for opportunities to express, experiment, and develop. As new media shape mass communication (Jones & Hafner, 2012;Kalantzis & Cope, 2012), literacy becomes essential in claiming the right to speak (Darvin & Norton, 2015).…”

Section: Sociocultural Theory: Tools Mediation and Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Variety of User Experiences: Literacy Roles and Stances on Story‐Sharing Platforms

Korobkova¹,

Collins²

2018

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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The authors explored adolescents’ literacy practices and identities on newly popular story‐sharing platforms. For budding readers, writers, and designers, these sites represent new media ecologies. With a mixed‐method case study of 40 globally dispersed adolescents, the authors chronicled literacy roles, identity stances, and practices on the story‐sharing apps Wattpad and Figment. These media‐ted practices proved consequential for the participants’ sense of investment in what they did. Findings show that adolescents divergently invested in a social orientation toward writing and an orientation focused on textual output. Different genres of practice came to the forefront, depending on users’ identity stances. Participants in these platforms took on various stances, ranging from friend to fan to reader to novice and expert writer, which cohered with attendant activities. The authors conclude with implications for research, design, and coordination of learning environments for adolescents, given the observed heterogeneity in stances, roles, practices, and experiences.

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Section: Sociocultural Theory: Tools Mediation and Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Variety of User Experiences: Literacy Roles and Stances on Story‐Sharing Platforms

Korobkova¹,

Collins²

2018

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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“…The emphasis on science is repeated in the subsequent action program, which provides encouragement to "upgrade parents' scientific infant-feeding knowledge" (NPA 2011(NPA -2020. The inclination towards science in areas of childcare has drawn the attention of several scholars, who argue that the one-child policy has led parenting towards more scientific and 'modern' approaches, especially among the urban, middle-class (Naftali 2010;BinahPollak 2014;Anagnost 2008;Gottschang 2000). Orna Naftali (2010) points to how the lite-rature on childcare has grown exponentially over the past decades, and Suzanne Gottschang (2000) shows how breastfeeding in Beijing is promoted as a modern way of feeding infants.…”

Section: Feeding Infants In Urban Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The inclination towards science in areas of childcare has drawn the attention of several scholars, who argue that the one-child policy has led parenting towards more scientific and 'modern' approaches, especially among the urban, middle-class (Naftali 2010;BinahPollak 2014;Anagnost 2008;Gottschang 2000). Orna Naftali (2010) points to how the lite-rature on childcare has grown exponentially over the past decades, and Suzanne Gottschang (2000) shows how breastfeeding in Beijing is promoted as a modern way of feeding infants. Yet, even if global and national health institutions describe breastfeeding as the 'safe' or 'best' choice, mothers might face difficulties in breastfeeding successfully or might encounter other interpretations of the maternal body and infants' food that do WOMEN, GENDER & RESEARCH, NO.…”

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Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

Breengaard¹

2015

KKF

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Practices of Childcare in Urban China. The Making of Competent Mothering in BeijingOver the past decades, China's one-child policy and broader modernization project has paved the way for scientific approaches to childcare. While the emphasis on expert-led childcare promotes new practices of mothering, it also acts as a differential between those who are able to carry out these practices and those who are not. Taking its point of departure in the concept of intersectionality and in post-structural theories of subjectification, this article explores how mothers and child professionals in contemporary Beijing draw boundaries between those considered competent and incompetent in childcare. By analysing their stories on infant feeding, the article finds that older generations and rural people are demarcated as lacking new knowledge and thereby positioned as incompetent, while well-educated mothers are positioned as highly competent. However, the article also suggests that these positions are not stable but contain potentials for transformation. KEYWORDS Infant feeding, quality (suzhi), expert-led childcare, motheringMichala Hvidt Breengaard is a PhD fellow at Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen and at the Sino-Danish Centre, a Chinese-Danish research initiative. Her research project explores the practices of mothering that followed the one-child policy in urban China.

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“…21 According to a number of publications, to ensure children's psychological development, parents should pay attention not only to their children's physical needs, but also to their emotional needs, thereby helping them to construct a 'positive self-image, strong self-confidence, and a sense of personal worth'. In an article about the rise of psychological discourse in China, Orna Naftali demonstrates how reform-era discourses tend to promote the idea that childhood is a category distinct from adulthood in terms of children's 'natural' development needs and that children are entitled to a 'happy, carefree childhood'.…”

Section: Children Are Unique With Distinct Psychological Characteristicsmentioning

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Discourses and practices of child-rearing in China: The bio-power of parenting in Beijing

Binah-Pollak

2014

China Information

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Based on 13 months of fieldwork which was conducted among middle-class families in Beijing, this article explores young children's daily bodily practices and juxtaposes these practices with discourses on child-rearing which have gained prominence in post-Mao China. The article aims to demonstrate that the new discourse on childhood, education, and child-rearing, which has been promoted by the Chinese government since the 1980s, does not always correspond to, and sometimes even contradicts, actual practices in Chinese families. The argument here is that this gap stems in large part from the dominant role of grandparents during the early stages of child-rearing, who tend to perpetuate values and practices, such as obedience and dependence, and to maintain a firm grip on the child's body.The past three decades in China have seen the emergence of a new dominant discourse on childhood and child-rearing, which highlights children's individualism and personal freedom. This new discourse has attracted the attention of several scholars who have explored the various ways in which such discourse is enacted and implemented in everyday life. Most of the studies, however, have focused on children who have already entered the Chinese schooling system, a context that is heavily influenced by the official policy, and one which promotes the new discourse and aims to shape the child as a new

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Recovering Childhood: Play, Pedagogy, and the Rise of Psychological Knowledge in Contemporary Urban China

Cited by 31 publications

References 39 publications

The Variety of User Experiences: Literacy Roles and Stances on Story‐Sharing Platforms

The Variety of User Experiences: Literacy Roles and Stances on Story‐Sharing Platforms

Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

Discourses and practices of child-rearing in China: The bio-power of parenting in Beijing

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