Description
Book Synopsis This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. Knowing the past is fundamentally important for human societies, as well as for individual development. The authors expose many unquestioned assumptions and preformed images in narratives of the past that are routinely presented to children. The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and critically assess the many ways in which contemporary societies and an increasing number of commercial agents construct and use the past.
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Table of Contents Contributing Authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Children and Narratives of the Past
Liv Helga Dommasnes and Nena Galanidou
PART I: LEARNING PATHS: COGNITIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1. Cognitive and Neural Developments that Make it Possible to Experience the Past as the Present
Patricia J. Bauer
Chapter 2. Autobiography, Time and History: Children’s Construction of the Past in Family Reminiscing
Robyn Fivush
Chapter 3. Representing the Past in Pictures
Alan Costall and Ann Richards
Chapter 4. Children’s Understanding of Authenticity
Susan A. Gelman and Brandy N. Frazier
PART II: CONTECTS OF TELLING I: DIGITAL AND PRINTED MEDIA
Chapter 5. Groovin’ to Ancient Peru: a Critical Analysis of Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove
Helaine Silverman
Chapter 6. Telling Children About the Past Using Electronic Games
Maria Economou
Chapter 7. In a Child’s Eyes: Human Origins and the Paleolithic in Children’s Book Illustrations
Nena Galanidou
Chapter 8. Writing Prehistory for Children. A Comparison Between Author and Publisher-Edited Versions
Pascale Binant
Chapter 9. Museums and Archaeological Sites as the Setting for Wondrous Tales
Christos Boulotis
PART III: CONTEXTS OF TELLING II: MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES
Chapter 10. Exhibiting the Past to Children
Andromache Gazi
Chapter 11. Eviscerating Barbie: Telling Children About Egyptian Mummification
Lauren E. Talalay and Todd Gerring
Chapter 12. Conversations About the Past: Families in an Archaeology Museum
Theano Moussouri
Chapter 13. Small People versus Big Heritage
Liv Helga Dommasnes
PART IV: CONTEXTS OF TELLING III: SCHOOLS AND SPECIAL CLASSROOMS
Chapter 14. Landscapes and Winter Counts: Lakota Ways of Telling Children About the Past
Craig Howe
Chapter 15. Telling Children About the Past in Brazil
Ana Piñón and Pedro Funari
Chapter 16. From Fragments to Contexts: Teaching Prehistory to Village Children in Romania
Corina Sarbu and Dragos Gheorghiu
