Julie C Garlen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie C Garlen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie C |
| FAMILY NAME | Garlen |
| SIGNATURE | GARLEN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2224-5688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood
Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children “grow up,” as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally “grow out” of childhood innocence? The authors featured in this volume explore this question through critical approaches that actively refuse the limits of no…
Children as ‘difference makers’
Viral images on social media during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 brought heightened attention to the debate over children’s political participation. Therefore, our inquiry sought to discover what the circulation of and response to viral images of children engaged in protest might tell us about the discursive landscapes of childhood in regard to children’s social and political participation. We describe the historical and discursive con…
Sick at school
Longstanding impressions of children as innocent to human frailty, alongside the emphasis on efficiency and management in schools, play undeniable roles in the way teachers engage with children experiencing death and illness. This paper draws from a larger study of 116 written childhood memories from prospective teachers and practitioners enrolled across four universities in Canada and the United States and focuses on the 12 memories that specifi…
Unboxing Childhood
In this article, we look to viewer responses to James Bridle’s TED Talk on children’s YouTube to learn about the discursive landscape of childhood in the digital age. We first situate concerns about children’s use of YouTube within a history of moral panic and then conduct a thematic analysis of online comments to discover what viewers identify as the central concerns. We “unbox” three emergent themes of responsibility—corporate, parental, and so…
Childhood innocence and experience
This article examines how childhood innocence is taken up in (92) memories of undergraduate students across four sites in the US and Canada. Drawing from Foucault's theory of discourse, we examine how three themes—innocence as not knowing, innocence as being provided for, and loss of innocence as exposure to adversity—construct childhood as the absence of conflict, which perpetuates the myth of an innocence/experience binary and encourages a defi…
The Dreamwork of Childhood Memory
PEDAGOGICAL PRESENT traces of the past (Britzman, 2003) yet also telegraph dreams about how structures of schooling and society might be imagined otherwise.In teacher education, memories are often used in support of critical reflection.They provide the raw material for prospective teachers to contemplate both desirable and undesirable aspects of the teacher's role and to make observations about issues relating to classroom authority, values, and …
Childhood Memories of Playful Antics and Punishable Acts
This paper takes up the question of risk by examining childhood memories of nuisance-making and punishment shared by 26 participants enrolled in teacher education and/or childhood studies programs. Our analysis surfaces a tension that, on the one hand, idealizes the child as innocent instigator of playful antics and, on the other, produces a child who is guilty of punishable acts. We read these memories as an invitation to theorize a middle groun…
Growing out of childhood innocence
In The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media, Kate Eichhorn (2019) made a compelling claim about the state of childhood in contemporary life, arguing that “the real crisis of the digital
Interrogating innocence
Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children's social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice. By examining the emotional investments and social tensions that have shaped concepts of childhood, which def…
Happily (n)ever after
Drawing on Ahmed’s articulation of the performativity of affect, we analyze how Disney love, as it is constructed in Disney Princess films, acts pedagogically as a “happy object” that orients the happiness of women toward the acquisition of love. We assert that the happiness we derive from loving Disney is a form of what Berlant calls “cruel optimism,” in which we become attached to fantasies of happiness and fulfillment that are unsustainable an…
Magic everywhere
Recently, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would expand its digital movie-viewing service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to include a wider range of web platforms and digital-streaming devices
Escape from Tomorrow
Princesses transformed into ghouls. Psychedelic teacup rides. Simulated suicide. The world’s most famous theme park turned into a vomitorium. ... And you thought this was the happiest place on earth
The child in question
What is a child? The concept of childhood is so familiar that we tend to assume its universality. As Davin (1999) notes, “We all ‘know’ what we mean by child and childhood. Yet its properties are m
Interrogating innocence
Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children's social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice. By examining the emotional investments and social tensions that have shaped concepts of childhood, which def…
The child in question
What is a child? The concept of childhood is so familiar that we tend to assume its universality. As Davin (1999) notes, “We all ‘know’ what we mean by child and childhood. Yet its properties are m
Happily (n)ever after
Drawing on Ahmed’s articulation of the performativity of affect, we analyze how Disney love, as it is constructed in Disney Princess films, acts pedagogically as a “happy object” that orients the happiness of women toward the acquisition of love. We assert that the happiness we derive from loving Disney is a form of what Berlant calls “cruel optimism,” in which we become attached to fantasies of happiness and fulfillment that are unsustainable an…
Growing out of childhood innocence
In The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media, Kate Eichhorn (2019) made a compelling claim about the state of childhood in contemporary life, arguing that “the real crisis of the digital
Magic everywhere
Recently, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would expand its digital movie-viewing service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to include a wider range of web platforms and digital-streaming devices
Children as ‘difference makers’
Viral images on social media during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 brought heightened attention to the debate over children’s political participation. Therefore, our inquiry sought to discover what the circulation of and response to viral images of children engaged in protest might tell us about the discursive landscapes of childhood in regard to children’s social and political participation. We describe the historical and discursive con…
Childhood Memories of Playful Antics and Punishable Acts
This paper takes up the question of risk by examining childhood memories of nuisance-making and punishment shared by 26 participants enrolled in teacher education and/or childhood studies programs. Our analysis surfaces a tension that, on the one hand, idealizes the child as innocent instigator of playful antics and, on the other, produces a child who is guilty of punishable acts. We read these memories as an invitation to theorize a middle groun…
Escape from Tomorrow
Princesses transformed into ghouls. Psychedelic teacup rides. Simulated suicide. The world’s most famous theme park turned into a vomitorium. ... And you thought this was the happiest place on earth
The child in question
What is a child? The concept of childhood is so familiar that we tend to assume its universality. As Davin (1999) notes, “We all ‘know’ what we mean by child and childhood. Yet its properties are m
Happily (n)ever after
Drawing on Ahmed’s articulation of the performativity of affect, we analyze how Disney love, as it is constructed in Disney Princess films, acts pedagogically as a “happy object” that orients the happiness of women toward the acquisition of love. We assert that the happiness we derive from loving Disney is a form of what Berlant calls “cruel optimism,” in which we become attached to fantasies of happiness and fulfillment that are unsustainable an…
Magic everywhere
Recently, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would expand its digital movie-viewing service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to include a wider range of web platforms and digital-streaming devices
Interrogating innocence
Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children's social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice. By examining the emotional investments and social tensions that have shaped concepts of childhood, which def…
The Dreamwork of Childhood Memory
PEDAGOGICAL PRESENT traces of the past (Britzman, 2003) yet also telegraph dreams about how structures of schooling and society might be imagined otherwise.In teacher education, memories are often used in support of critical reflection.They provide the raw material for prospective teachers to contemplate both desirable and undesirable aspects of the teacher's role and to make observations about issues relating to classroom authority, values, and …
Childhood Memories of Playful Antics and Punishable Acts
This paper takes up the question of risk by examining childhood memories of nuisance-making and punishment shared by 26 participants enrolled in teacher education and/or childhood studies programs. Our analysis surfaces a tension that, on the one hand, idealizes the child as innocent instigator of playful antics and, on the other, produces a child who is guilty of punishable acts. We read these memories as an invitation to theorize a middle groun…
Growing out of childhood innocence
In The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media, Kate Eichhorn (2019) made a compelling claim about the state of childhood in contemporary life, arguing that “the real crisis of the digital
Unboxing Childhood
In this article, we look to viewer responses to James Bridle’s TED Talk on children’s YouTube to learn about the discursive landscape of childhood in the digital age. We first situate concerns about children’s use of YouTube within a history of moral panic and then conduct a thematic analysis of online comments to discover what viewers identify as the central concerns. We “unbox” three emergent themes of responsibility—corporate, parental, and so…
Childhood innocence and experience
This article examines how childhood innocence is taken up in (92) memories of undergraduate students across four sites in the US and Canada. Drawing from Foucault's theory of discourse, we examine how three themes—innocence as not knowing, innocence as being provided for, and loss of innocence as exposure to adversity—construct childhood as the absence of conflict, which perpetuates the myth of an innocence/experience binary and encourages a defi…
Children as ‘difference makers’
Viral images on social media during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 brought heightened attention to the debate over children’s political participation. Therefore, our inquiry sought to discover what the circulation of and response to viral images of children engaged in protest might tell us about the discursive landscapes of childhood in regard to children’s social and political participation. We describe the historical and discursive con…
Sick at school
Longstanding impressions of children as innocent to human frailty, alongside the emphasis on efficiency and management in schools, play undeniable roles in the way teachers engage with children experiencing death and illness. This paper draws from a larger study of 116 written childhood memories from prospective teachers and practitioners enrolled across four universities in Canada and the United States and focuses on the 12 memories that specifi…
Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood
Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children “grow up,” as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally “grow out” of childhood innocence? The authors featured in this volume explore this question through critical approaches that actively refuse the limits of no…
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Innocence (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works)