Children Under Construction

Contents: Jack Zipes: Foreword: Toward Creating a Children's Public Sphere - Drew Chappell: Colonizing the Imaginary: Socializing (Specific) Identities, Bodies, Ethics, and Moralities through Pleasurable Embodiment - Amy Petersen Jensen/McKay R. Jensen: Online Girl Games, Identity, and the Creation of a Multimodal Consumer/Creator - Warren Linds/Felice Yuen/Linda Goulet/Jo-Ann Episkenew/Karen Schmidt: Exploring and Re-creating Indigenous Identity through Theatre-based Workshops - Valerie Borey/Tove I. Dahl: Playing with Meaning in a Norwegian Language Immersion Village - Noelia Enriz: Ñeovanga Poranguei: The Lucky Ones Who Play (Mbyá guaraní Children's Learning through Social Play) - Rebecca Howard: What Are Little (Gender «Normal», Heterosexual) Kids Made Of? Performing and Subverting the Status Quo in the Dramatic Play Area - Anna Beresin: Children's Museums and Children's Bodies - Sean J. Bliznik: We're All In This Together: Framing the Self-Representation of Adolescence in Disney's High School Musical - Amy K. Way: Going on 30: Adult Discourses of Femininity in Young Women's Sports Training - Matt Omasta: Constructing Good and Evil at the «Happiest Place on Earth» - Christina Marín: Whose Rights Are They Anyway? Examining Human Rights Education with Young People Incorporating Theatre Games and Dramatic Activities - Maria Kromidas: Cyberculture, Multiculture and the Emergent Morality of Critical Cosmopolitanism: Kids (Trans)Forming Difference Online - Shimi Friedman: Adversity in a Snowball Fight: Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Village of Sillwan - Drew Chappell: Success through Excess: Narratives and Performances in Board and Card Games.

The Editor: Drew Chappell is a graduate of both the M.F.A. program in theatre for youth at the University of Texas at Austin and the Ph.D. program in theatre at Arizona State University. He teaches at California State University, Fullerton, and is a working playwright.