Play And Peer Cultures

Question 1

Corsaro culture definitions

Answer 1

1990
‘Stable set of activities, or routines, artefacts, values and concerns’
‘Children produce and share in interaction with with peers’

Question 2

Opies peer / nursery culture

Boobs!

Answer 2

1959 
PC -
Child to child transmission 
Responsive to adult world 
Child specific 
NC -
Transmitted adult to child 
Moral message  - normative message 
Mainly in domestic and educational sprees

Question 3

Cosaro

Answer 3

1990
Disagrees with the opies that child culture is separate
Peer culture sourced from adult world but transformed into child specific thing (reproductive interpretation)

Question 4

Reproductive interpretation

Answer 4

Cosaro 1990
Sourced from adult world
E.g in play - echo of what happens in adult world - trading, routine, access and exit, language

Question 5

Sources of culture and what it generates

Answer 5

Cosaro 1990
E.g children’s literature, media, mythical figures, stories
Generates control, autonomy and resistance to authority

Question 6

James Jenks and Prout

Answer 6

1998
Issue with research of children - treats like exotic tribe
Children with adults majority of time - hard to argue culture is entirely separate
Integrated order
Children’s culture is integrated

Question 7

Corsaro quote

Answer 7

Children ‘acquire or conduct adult skills and knowledge through play’ 1988