如何教孩子们控制自己的情绪,以及如何抵制
通过文化生产进行情感管理。
因此,通过引用父母的名字和他们的日常生活,甚至通过他们的日常生活来控制他们的孩子。在过去的20年里,儿童电视节目为愤怒等情绪的处理提供了一个治疗场所,但简·朱弗认为,这样做强化了情感的规范结构,削弱了儿童情感体验的强度和范围。
别用你的话!试图挑战这些规范,强调孩子们通过文化作品表达情感的方式,包括绘画、粉丝艺术、模因、YouTube视频、舞蹈动作和在线游戏时的对话。关注五到九岁的孩子,不要使用你的语言!将这些作品置于特定环境中,包括刚从拘留中心获释的中美洲儿童绘画中引用的移民政策,以及在儿童艺术作品中表达他们对特朗普胜利的愤怒的选举政治。对于代表儿童发言的主流趋势,Juffer提出了异议,他认为儿童有自己的责任:作为一个孩子的感觉是什么?
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Don’t Use Your Words!: Children’s Emotions in a Networked World
How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist
this emotional management through cultural production.
Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children’s television programming has provided a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues, weaken the intensity and range of children’s affective experiences.
Don’t Use Your Words! seeks to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids between ages five and nine, Don’t Use Your Words! situates these productions in specific contexts, including immigration policy referenced in drawings by Central American children just released from detention centers and electoral politics as contested in kids’ artwork expressing their anger at Trump’s victory. Taking issue with the mainstream tendency to speak on behalf of children, Juffer argues that kids have the agency to answer for themselves: what does it feel like to be a kid?
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