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      Forever young: Childhoods, fairy tales and philosophy

      Tesar, Marek; Kupferman, David W.; Rodriguez, Sophia; Arndt, Sonja Kathrina
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       10.1177/2043610616647642
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      Tesar, M., Kupferman, D. W., Rodriguez, S., & Arndt, S. (2016). Forever young: Childhoods, fairy tales and philosophy. Global Studies of Childhood, 1–12. http://doi.org/10.1177/2043610616647642
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10270
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      Fairy tales play a substantial role in the shaping of childhoods. Developed into stories and played out in picture books, films and tales, they are powerful instruments that influence conceptions and treatments of the child and childhoods. This article argues that traditional fairy tales and contemporary stories derived from them use complex means to mould the ways that children live and experience their childhoods. This argument is illustrated through representations of childhoods and children in a selection of stories and an analysis of the ways they act on and produce the child subjects and childhoods they convey. The selected stories are examined through different philosophical lenses, utilizing Foucault, Lyotard and Rousseau. By problematizing these selected stories, the article analyses what lies beneath the surface of the obvious meanings of the text and enticing pictures in stories, as published or performed. Finally, this article argues for a careful recognition of the complexities of stories used in early childhood settings and their powerful and multifaceted influences on children and childhoods.
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      2016
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      Journal Article
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      SAGE Publications (UK and US)
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