Author: William E. Knox
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The George Junior Republic
Author: William E. Knox
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Nothing Without Labor
Author: George Junior Republic (Freeville, N.Y.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Languages : en
Pages : 42
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States of Childhood
Author: Jennifer S. Light
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of “junior republics” and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of “sheltered” childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era's fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light's account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of “junior republics” and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of “sheltered” childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era's fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light's account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.
Our Boys
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Nothing Without Labor
Author: George Junior Republic (Freeville, N.Y.)
Publisher:
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Category : Junior republics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Outlines the aim of the George Junior Republic Association.
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Category : Junior republics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Outlines the aim of the George Junior Republic Association.
Grove City
Author: Mike S. Adams
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In 1798, Valentine Cunningham dammed Wolf Creek in a wild Pennsylvania landscape for the purpose of starting a mill. By 1876, when Isaac Ketler came to start the nationally recognized Grove City College, it was a thriving village known as Pine Grove. Flowing outward from Cunningham's mill, the area now known as Grove City doubled in size, and it doubled again during the early twentieth century. Marketing slogans such as "Where Industry and Education Unite" and "No saloons" described the expanding town. Prohibitionist sentiments peaked when local tycoon Edwin Fithian ran for U.S. senator on the Prohibition ticket in the 1920s. All the while in the background, Wolf Creek provided the city with inspiration, energy, and recreation and was even once set ablaze. Grove City looks back at the rich history of this growing Pennsylvania community.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In 1798, Valentine Cunningham dammed Wolf Creek in a wild Pennsylvania landscape for the purpose of starting a mill. By 1876, when Isaac Ketler came to start the nationally recognized Grove City College, it was a thriving village known as Pine Grove. Flowing outward from Cunningham's mill, the area now known as Grove City doubled in size, and it doubled again during the early twentieth century. Marketing slogans such as "Where Industry and Education Unite" and "No saloons" described the expanding town. Prohibitionist sentiments peaked when local tycoon Edwin Fithian ran for U.S. senator on the Prohibition ticket in the 1920s. All the while in the background, Wolf Creek provided the city with inspiration, energy, and recreation and was even once set ablaze. Grove City looks back at the rich history of this growing Pennsylvania community.
The New York Supplement
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
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Foster Care, Problems and Issues
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia
Author: John Huston Finley
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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American Primary Teacher
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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