The Future Agenda for Child Study and the Implications for the Study of Children's Folklore

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Brian Sutton-Smith

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With the l00th Anniversary of the American Folklore Society upon us and with the preeminent role in that society played by William Wells Newell also the founder of Children's Folklore in the USA, Jay Mechling and I felt an incumbency to take some critical focus on the future. With that end in mind, we invited our five favorite radical scholars of American childhood to tell us what we could expect of the future for children. Given that children's folklore has not been a flourishing discipline throughout its first 100 years, despite the prominent beginning augured by Newell's 1883 Games and Songs of American Children, we felt this might be the occasion for a paradigm break in the nature of the discipline.

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