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Recent Scholarship

Childhood and Youth

 

Frymer, Benjamin, “The Media Spectacle of Columbine: Alienated Youth as an Object of Fear,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1387–404.

Ogata, Amy F., “Building Imagination in Postwar American Children’s Rooms,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 16 (Fall–Winter 2008–2009), 126–42.

Rouleau, Brian, “Childhood’s Imperial Imagination: Edward Stratemeyer’s Fiction Factory and the Valorization of American Empire,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (Oct. 2008), 479–512.

 

Benton, Steve, “Ichabod’s Children: Anti-intellectualism and the Pedagogical Imagination” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3316709.

Hill, Marcia Reeser, “Prevalent Leadership Characteristics among Principals/Lead Teachers in Alternative Education Programs for At-Risk Youth” (Indiana State University, 2005). Order No. DA3318956.

Hood, Katherine E. Shryock, “On beyond Boo! Horror Literature for Children” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3318585.

 

Platt, Anthony M., The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. lvi, 292 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4536-3.) Expanded 40th anniversary edition.

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