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Kids in the Middle
Complicating the common view that immigrant incorporation is a top-down process, determined largely by parents, Vikki Katz explores how children actively broker connections that enable their families to become woven into the fabric of American life. Children's immersion in the U.S. school system and contact with mainstream popular culture enables them more quickly to become fluent in English and familiar with the conventions of everyday life in the United States. These skills become an important factor in how families interact with their local environments.Kids in the Middleexplores children's contributions to the family strategies that improve communication between their parents and U.S. schools, healthcare facilities, and social services, from the perspectives of children, parents, and the English-speaking service providers that interact with these families via children's assistance. Katz also considers how children's brokering affects their developmental trajectories. While their help is critical to addressing short-term family needs, children's responsibilities can constrain their access to educational resources and have consequences for their long-term goals.Kids in the Middleexplores the complicated interweaving of family responsibility and individual attainment in these immigrant families.Through a unique interdisciplinary approach that combines elements of sociology and communication approaches, Katz investigates not only how immigrant children connect their families with local institutional networks, but also how they engage different media forms to bridge gaps between their homes and mainstream American culture. Drawing from extensive firsthand research, Katz takes us inside an urban community in Southern California and the experiences of a specific community of Latino immigrant families there. In addition to documenting the often-overlooked contributions that children of immigrants make to their families' community encounters, the book provides a critical set of recommendations for how service providers and local institutions might better assist these children in fulfilling their family responsibilities. The story told inKids in the Middlereveals an essential part of the immigrant experience that transcends both geographic and ethnic boundaries.
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Anthropology of Childhoods: An Introduction to \Children, Childhoods, and Childhood Studies\
Anthropological attention to children and childhoods has had an uneven but lengthy history, both within the discipline and in interdisciplinary endeavors. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of children, with work often carried out under the rubrics of \"Childhood Studies\" or the \"Anthropology of Childhoods.\" In these frameworks, children are at once developing beings, in possession of agency, and to varying degrees vulnerable. It has been a hallmark of anthropological work to recognize that these attributes manifest themselves in different times and places, and under particular social, political, economic, and moral circumstances and conditions. The five articles in this \"In Focus\" put forward some key challenges and opportunities for the anthropological study of children and childhoods.
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Translating Childhoods
Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered \"invisible.\"Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the \"work\" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution.
Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be \"in the middle\" or the \"keys to communication\" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.
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Media Literacy for Young Children
Midwest Book Review calls this book a seminal and groundbreaking instructional guide [that] is an essential and substantive contribution that should be a part of every professional, school district, college, and academic library Early Child Education and Media Literacy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. Media literacy isabout wonder and imagination, questioning and learning, thinking andreflecting! Media Literacy forYoung Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates is about all thesethings, and more importantly, it is about how early childhood educators andprofessionals can prepare children for their digital future. This book is a first-of-its-kind guide for pre-service and currentlypracticing teachers and child care professionals looking for pedagogicallysound and developmentally appropriate ways to help todays children navigatetheir media-rich world with confidence, curiosity, and critical thinking.Detailed descriptions of media literacy competencies, along with dozens ofactivities, strategies, and tips designed for children ages 27, demonstratehow to integrate foundational skills, knowledge, and dispositions into existingroutines as well as experiment with new lessons. By examining media through a literacy lens, this book will show you waysto Use inquiry and media-making to teach children aboutmedia Plan activities to engage children in meaningful mediadiscussions Engage with families about the importance of medialiteracy education for young children Address media concerns with joy and creativity ratherthan anxiety or fear . . . and muchmore!
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