To remind everyone: you need to create 2 multiple-choice questions for the in-tutorial review on Wednesday and either email them to me or post them as a response to this message. (I would prefer it if you just posted them here - York email is painfully slow. But don't tell us/me which answer is correct. We'll figure that out when we take it up in tutorial.) You have until midnight on Monday (yes, after the next tutorial) to submit something, after which I'll pull it all together and repost it in mock-exam form on Tuesday (possibly as late as the afternoon) for the whole class to try and answer. (There's no specific penalty for not participating, but joining in on the review and contributing - like any discussion - is connected to the participation mark.) And then we'll discuss the answers in tutorial.
If you were in tutorial on Wednesday, then you should know which week you were assigned to cover. If you were not, then I'd suggest that you refer to May 21, 26, and June 2's articles and choose something from among those, since they have the most material to cover. If you're struggling to come up with something, definitions (supplying the definition and four possible terms) or identification (describing a place/person/thing and four options) questions are always the easiest. I won't tell you to avoid making it too easy or too hard because we all have different ideas of what's hard or easy - just try to make sure that all of the possible answers, even the wrong ones, sound at least somewhat plausible. (For example: If the correct answer is 'Louis Althusser', it would make no sense for you to include 'Magic Johnson' as an option. Try Marx, Gramsci, Jenkins, Jefferess, etc.)
So in summary:
-2 questions of your own design, drawn from your week of readings/lecture
-4 possible answers for each (with no indication of which is correct)
-emailed or posted here by midnight on Monday (although earlier is always better)
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1)David Jefferes applies that children in the western world have the option of doing labour where as the children in the third world are obligated towards completing labour. This point reflects.
a) Craig Kielburger
b) WordsWorth
c) Perry Nodelman & Mavis Reime
d) Harry Hendrick
2)What is David Jefferess concern in his article?
a) Western children go to school rather than work, and are expected to play rather than fulfil responsibilities to the household.
b) Western notion of childhood may not have existed prior to the eighteenth century
c) The dominant concept of the child in this discourse is dependent upon notions of work, education and the romantic construction of “childhood”.
d) The child in the CRC and child rights discourse is dependent upon the dominant, yet historically recent, conception of the “child” and to suggest how dependence on this concept of the “child” perpetuates structures of domination rather than contributes to the positive social change the child rights movement advocates.
1)When looking at the analysis of Deborah Ellis’ books that we have read this term, who is seen as the strongest character in terms of dealing with social values in labour?
a) Parvanah
b) Diego
c) Binti
d) Jay
2)What are the three main aspects found through the Expository Level in ‘I Am Taxi’?
a) money, acceptance and child-adult relationships
b) gender roles, money and love
c) child-adult relationships, child labour and money
d) sense of responsibility, gender roles and child-adult relationships
1. Which of the following is not a dangerous assumption that Gramsci makes about ideology:
a. it is not ideology that changes the structures but vice versa
b. a given political solution is “ideological”
c. ideology is constructed to serve the best interests of the people and society
d. one that passes to the assertion that every ideology is “pure” appearance, useless, stupid etc.
2. What author states: “the category of the subject is only constitutive of all ideology insofar as all ideology has the function (which defines it) of “constituting” concrete individuals as subjects.”
a. Antonio Gramsci
b. Louis Althussier
c. Karl Marx
d. Ellen Riordan
1. During the 18th century, western children was thought of as
a) little devils
b) equivalent to adults
c) totally innocent
d) as imperfect adults
2. According to the Hendrick article, who was responsible for the social contraction of childhood
a) School teachers
b) Adults of the professional middle class
c) Children from the 18th century
d) Lower class individual who had experienced childhood anxiety
1. What is the name of the organiztion that Eshan Khan was the leader of?
a)bonded labor liberation front
b)children's liberation group
c)free the children
d)stop child exploitation
2. Why was Iqbal so important to Hussain Khan?
a) He was an artist
b) His family had a lot of debt to pay off
c) He was a co-operative worker
d)He was a fast worker
1) According to Richard Dyer stereotypes are reinforce by
a) the mass media
b)ethnocentric individuals
c)government institutions
d)All of the above
2) One of the best way to deal with bias is to
a) accept it and move on
b)report it to the proper authority
c)blame it on dominant ideology
d) to treat everyone equally regardless of race, class, nationality or sexual orientation
May 7th reading, Jenkins, "The Myth of Childhood Innocence"
1) When Jenkins describes Hillary Clinton's "village" mentality, there is a particular idea or state that the child embodies. What is this state?
a) The embodiment of nostalgic remorse, or of an innocence that has been violated.
b) The embodiment of a dream for the future which must be built in the present.
c) The embodiment of change, its threat and its potential.
d) The embodiment of a temporary state, an emblem for our anxieties about the passing of time.
2) Hillary Clinton's book, It Takes a Village, depicts Hillary on the back cover surrounded by children of all different racial and ethnic backgrounds. However, this multicultural picture relies heavily on the idea of the universal child. Why is this statement true? (Choose the answer that correlates best with the reasoning provided in the text.)
a) Because at this time, the Democratic Party was actively courting African- and Asian-Americans for their votes and the photograph groups the children around Hillary, as if they all support her agenda and share the same political views.
b) Because suffering occurs to all children, regardless of racial and class differences, therefore all the children surrounding Hillary are universalized in their suffering.
c) Because all of the children surrounding Hillary are well dressed, squeaky clean and smiling, envisioning a utopian community united despite racial differences.
d) Because Hillary believes in desegregation and in believing this, she is disregarding the cultural differences that make all children unique which in turn disempowers the children that surround her.
2 Questions for Bifocal Novel:
1) What major element is heavily emphasized throughout the novel of Bifocal?
A) Class
B) Sexuality
C) Stereotypes
D) Individuality
2) What is Deborah Ellis and Eric Walter’s attempt with Bifocal? What do they place focus on in terms of its aim of the novel?
A) To talk about different types of childhood
B) To tell a story of selling politics
C) To discuss examples of implications in Western childhood
D) To highlight previous research into a fictional story
AMANDA ULISSE SAYS:
1) What does discursive matrix mean?
a) a representation of one whole text in the same areas within it.
b) a meaning is getting made and represented in lots of different arenas.
c) Discourse of ideas and representations.
d) none of the above.
1. Why did Prof. Jefrrey Canton mention that this notion of children literature is stupid?
a)Because its never authentic enough.
b)Because its adult literature created for children.
c)Because all children books are all similar.
d)Because their too young to write books.
2. How does Hendrick define ‘social construction’ in his article?
a)Interchange of ideas; especially conversation.
b)Composed by adults.
c)The cultures which children construct for and between themselves.
d)Its historical mutability, there is always a relationship between the conceptual thought, social action and the process of category construction.
I'll be posting the mock exam around 3 or 4 this afternoon - if you haven't yet submitted your questions, you have until it's posted to submit them.
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