Author: Nicholas Markellos | Childhood StudiesAbstract: Over the last fifty years, much research has been conducted indicating the importance of reading to childhood development. Studies have shown that exposure to reading and children’s literature aids with childhood success in early education, as well as social and cultural development. In addition, it has been argued that… continue reading
Author: Zubin Miller | Childhood StudiesAbstract: Silence in childhood is often read as absence, deficit, or communicative failure – a space adults rush to interpret, fill, or correct. Drawing on contemporary children’s picturebooks, this paper challenges such deficit-based readings by approaching “silence” as a relational and embodied mode of meaning-making. Focusing on Talking Is Not… continue reading
Author: Courtney Cook | Childhood StudiesAbstract: How can Black girl/hood(s) become disentangled from images of hurt, violence, suffering, and deficit? In the afterlife of slavery, a phrase conceived by notable author Saidiya Hartman, images of Blackness vacillate between pain and criminalization, so much so that Blackness becomes visually abutted with death as a production of… continue reading
