Children under construction : critical essays on play as curriculum / edited by Drew Chappell ; with a foreword by Jack Zipes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreward: toward creating a children's public sphere / Jack Zipes -- Colonizing the imaginary: socializing (specific) identities, bodies, ethics, and moralities through pleasurable embodiment / Drew Chappell -- Online girl games, identity, and the creation of a mulitmodal consumer/creator / Amy Peterson Jensen and McKay R. Jensen -- Exploring and re-creating indigenous identity through theatre-based workshops / Warren Linds, Felice Yuen, Linda Goulet, Jo-Ann Episkenew, and Karen Schmidt -- Playing with meaning in a Norwegian language immersion villiage / Valerie Borey and Tove I. Dahl -- Neovanga Pranguei: the lucky ones who play (Mbya guarani Cchildren's leaning through social play) / Noelia Enriz -- What are little (gender "normal," heterosexual) kids made of? Performing and subverting the status quo in the dramatic play area / Rebecca Howard -- Children's museums and children's bodies / Anna Beresin -- We're all in this together: framing the self-representation of adolescence in Disney's High School Musical / Sean J. Bliznik -- 13 going on 30: adult discourses of femininity in young women's sports training / Amy K. Way -- Constructing good and evil at teh "Happiest place on earth" / Matt Omasta -- Whose rights are they anyway? examining humann rights education with young people incorporating theatre games aned dramatic activities / Christina Marin -- Cyberculture, multiculture and the emergent morality of critical cosmopolitanism: kids (trans)forming defference online / Maria Kromidas -- Adversity in a snowball fight: Jewish childhood in the Muslim village of Sillwan / Shimi Friedman -- Success through excess: marratives and performances in board and card games / Drew Chappell.

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