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. 2022 Jul 26:10.1111/chso.12616.
doi: 10.1111/chso.12616. Online ahead of print.

'COVID taught me…': Examining child-radio productions in the COVID-19 pandemic

Cassie J Brownell  1
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'COVID taught me…': Examining child-radio productions in the COVID-19 pandemic

Cassie J Brownell. Child Soc. .

Abstract

Framed by critical literacies, the author adapted ethnographic methods to virtual spaces to examine radio as an alternative way to enhance adult understanding of children's COVID-19 experiences. Drawing on a subset of child-produced radio segments from March 2021, she foregrounds how children in an extracurricular program strategically used radio to share their pandemic experiences with their community. Supplemented by 5 months of virtual observations, she identified how child-DJs used radio to share how-through the COVID-19 pandemic-they cared about and for their community. Ultimately, she argues radio is one tool for coming to know children as community change agents.

Keywords: COVID‐19 pandemic; childhood; elementary education; informal learning; radio.

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