Changing Childhood
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- Created on: 12-05-13 14:49
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- Changing Childhood
- Shorter - Childhood and the modern family
- Links the development of childhood to motherhood.
- 17th century mothers didn't care for their children.
- 18th century - romantic love developed towards children.
- 20th century being a good mother was deemed as being very important.
- Changing ideas are largely responsible for the development of childhood.
- Other explanations
- Postman - changes in childhood because of a technological change.
- Development of the printing press led to the separation of adults and children due to extensive learning of how to read.
- Pilcher disagrees and says there is more than one change - employment legislation.
- 19th Century Factory Acts - banned children from working in factories.
- Postman - changes in childhood because of a technological change.
- Childhood and modernity
- Jenks - Shift from Dionysian image of the child to the Apollonian image.
- Dionysian image refers to children being able to do what they like which can lead to them acting in evil ways.
- Apollonian image based on the ideas of the Rousseau.
- Children born good and resulted in child centered education.
- Jenks - Shift from Dionysian image of the child to the Apollonian image.
- Childhood and postmodernity
- Class solidarity has broken down and therefore children have become the final source of primary relationships.
- Fulfilling and unconditional.
- Parent-child bond is now seen as the most important in society.
- Through post modernity child protection has become very important.
- Class solidarity has broken down and therefore children have become the final source of primary relationships.
- Shorter - Childhood and the modern family
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