Children, childhood and cultural heritage / edited by Kate Darian-Smith and Carla Pascoe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Children, childhood and cultural heritage : mapping the field / Kate Darian-Smith and Carla Pascoe -- Patrimonito leads the way : UNESCO, cultural heritage, children and youth / William Logan -- Playlore as cultural heritage : traditions and change in Australian children's play / Gwenda Beed Davey, Kate Darian-Smith, and Carla Pascoe -- The case of the Wildcat Sailors : the hybrid lore and multimodal languages of the playground / Andrew Burn -- The hidden heritage of mothers and teachers in the making of Japan's superior students / Mark A. Jones -- Playing the author : children's creative writing, paracosms and the construction of family magazines / Christine Alexander -- Taking the children : children, childhood and heritage making / Laurajane Smith -- "Let children be children" : the place of child workers in museum exhibitions and the landscapes of the past / Simon Sleight -- Roman children and childhood and the perception of heritage / Mary Harlow -- Children, colonialism and commemoration / Kate Darian-Smith -- The last remnant of the Holocaust : the representation and reality of child survivors' lives / Beth B. Cohen -- School buildings and the architectural heritage of childhood : designing mid-twentieth-century schools in England / Elain Harwood -- Putting away the things of childhood : museum representations of children's cultural heritage / Carla Pascoe -- Museums and representations of childhood : reflections on the Foundling Museum and the V&A Museum of Childhood / Rhian Harris -- Children as collectors of cultural heritage : Leland Stanford, Jr. and his museum / Karen Sanchez-Eppler -- Home and hearth : representing childhood in fin de siècle Russia / Rebecca Friedman -- Material culture in North African children's play and toy heritage / Jean-Pierre Rossie.

" Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the population of any given society, but their lives are inescapably influenced by the expectations and decisions of adults. As a result, children's distinct experiences are frequently subsumed within the broader histories and heritage of their families and communities. And while adults inevitably play a prominent role in children's lives, children are also active creators of their own cultures. As this volume so vividly demonstrate, the cultural heritage of children is rich and varied, and highly revealing of past and present attitudes to children and their work, play, creativity, and human rights.^

The essays in this book span the experiences of children from classical Rome to the present moment, and examine the diverse social and historical contexts underlying the public representations of childhood in Britain, Europe, North America, Australia, North Africa and Japan. Case studies examine the heritage of schools and domestic spaces; the objects and games of play; the commemoration of child Holocaust survivors; memorials to Indigenous child-removal under colonial regimes; children as collectors of objects and as authors of juvenilia; curatorial practices at museums of childhood; and the role of children as visitors to historical sites. Until now, the cultural heritage of children and the representations of childhood have been largely absent from scholarly discussions of museology, heritage places and material culture. This volume rectifies that gap, bringing together international experts in children's histories and heritage.^

Aimed at a wide readership of students, academics, and museum and heritage professionals, Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage authoritatively defines the key issues in this exciting new field."--Publisher's website.