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Tuttle, William M., Jr. – 1989
A teacher's observations on the marked contrast between the development and behavior of elementary school children in Tennessee's Cumberland plateau and their counterparts in New York City's Greenwich Village vividly demonstrate the regional basis that still accounts for a variety of cultural variations. And yet, place of upbringing is just one of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Cultural Influences, Popular Culture
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Neustadter, Roger – Youth and Society, 1989
Traces the changes in the depiction of childhood in science fiction films from the 1950s to the present decade. Argues that the contemporary science fiction representation of the sentimental child is a cultural idealization that opposes the social reality of the vanishing child. (FMW)
Descriptors: Characterization, Child Role, Children, Cultural Images
Roe, Keith – 1984
This empirical review of the relationship between Swedish youth and music begins with a brief overview of the place of music as a communications medium in Swedish society in general, and among Swedish youth in particular. An analysis of the findings of a large-scale, longitudinal study of media use by Swedish adolescents, the Media Panel study, is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education