The Cosmopolitanization of Childhood
Eco-Knowledge in Children’s Eco-Edutainment Books
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12477272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Larsson (0000-0001-8454-2891, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-218 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Young (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1103-3088 • E-ISSN: 1741-3222 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/110330881202000205 |
| OpenAlex | W2333681376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article discusses one particular aspect of the cosmopolitanization of childhood by analyzing children’s ‘eco-edutainment’ books, giving advice on how to save the world from environmental catastrophe. Its purpose is to analyze how such books articulate and spread ‘eco-knowledge’, encouraging children to become environmentally aware world citizens. The analysis shows that these books urge children and pre-teens not only to become self-disciplined and caring, ethical ‘ecological selves’, but also to partake in producing local eco-knowledge and monitoring eco-discipline in their families, schools and local communities. The interconnection of problems, blame, possibilities, responsibilities, commitment and tactics and techniques made in these books articulates a persuasive and potentially mobilizing discourse. By simultaneously empowering the children, stimulating their cosmopolitical commitment and suggesting certain techniques and tactics for improving their families’ and schools’ environmental performances, these books encourage children to identify with a duty of becoming cosmopolitical problem solvers
Blame · Duty · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Foucault and lifelong learning
Forms of resistance
Japan, the U.S. and the Globalization of Children's Consumer Culture
Children and Their Changing Media Environment
Learners and Learning in Environmental Education
Global citizenship, anyone? cosmopolitanism, privilege and public opinion
School Environmental Education Programme Impacts upon Student and Family Learning
Globalization and Citizenship
A window on the wider world? Rural children's use of information and communication technologies
Imagined Country
The Making of a New Cosmopolitanism
The Learning Society, the Unfinished Cosmopolitan, and Governing Education, Public Health and Crime Prevention at the Beginning of the Twenty‐First Century
Mediated cosmopolitanism. The world of television news
Culture and Conflict
Imagined communities
The practice of everyday life
Geographies of identity
Visuality, mobility and the cosmopolitan
The cosmopolitan imagination
Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences
Cultures of Cosmopolitanism
Corked Hats and Coronation Street
Children's Agency and Educational Norms
Bringing Environmentalism Home
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Taking the 'Ism' Out of Cosmopolitanism
The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life and the Abduction of Feminism
The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies
Picture This
The Social Differentiation of the Educational System
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |