Vanessa Rutherford
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Vanessa Rutherford, MA, PhD is a Faculty Member at the School of Education, University College Cork, Ireland. Research interests and publications comprise the social, cultural and historical construction of childhood in children’s literature and toy discourses; socio-cultural approaches to identity, voice, learning, cognition and development; and, the history of education. Vanessa is a member of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth; the International Forum PLACIM: Towards a Platform for a Cultural History of Children's Media; and, the International Research Society for Children’s Literature.