Telling Children About the Past
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Contents: Liv Helga Dommasnes and Nena Galanidou, Introduction. Children and narratives of the past; Part I. Learning Paths: Cognitive and Psychological Perspectives: Patricia J. Bauer, Cognitive and Neural Developments that Make it Possible to Experience the Past as the Present; Robyn Fivush, Autobiography, Time and History: Children's Construction of the Past in Family Reminiscing; Alan Costall and Ann Richards, Representing the Past in Pictures; Susan A. Gelman and Brandy N. Frazier, Children's Understanding of Authenticity; Part II. Contexts of Telling I: Digital and Printed Media: Helaine Silverman, Groovin' to Ancient Peru: a Critical Analysis of Disney's The Emperor's New Groove; Maria Economou, Telling Children about the Past Using Electronic Games; Nena Galanidou, In a Child's Eyes: Human Origins and the Paleolithic in Children's Book Illustrations; Pascale Binant, Writing Prehistory for Children. A Comparison between Author and Publisher-Edited Versions; Christos Boulotis, Museums and Archaeological Sites as the Setting for Wondrous Tales; Part III. Contexts of Telling II: Museums and Cultural Heritage Sites: Andromache Gazi, Exhibiting the Past to Children; Lauren E. Talalay and Todd Gerring, Eviscerating Barbie. Telling Children about Egyptian Mummification; Theano Moussouri, Conversations about the Past: Families in an Archaeology Museum; Liv Helga Dommasnes, Small People versus Big Heritage; Part IV. Contexts of Telling III: Schools and Special Classrooms: Craig Howe, Landscapes and Winter Counts: Lakota Ways of Telling Children about the Past; Ana Pinon and Pedro Funari, Telling Children about the Past in Brazil; Corina Sarbu and Dragos Gheorghiu, From Fragments to Contexts: Teaching Prehistory to Village Children in Romania

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Nena Galanidou is Associate Professor of History & Archaeology at University of Crete.

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