The Future of Childhood
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- Created on: 31-05-20 07:47
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- The Future of Childhood
- The Disappearance of Childhood
- POSTMAN
- Childhood is disappearing
- Children getting same rights as adults
- Disappearance of children's traditional unsupervised
- Similarity in clothing
- Children committing adult crimes
- ...because the fall of print media and rise of television culture
- Information Hierarchy
- Separate status came with mass literacy in 19th Century
- Adults can read, children cannot
- 'Adult matters' are kept secret from children
- BUT TV does not require special skills to access it
- 'Adult matters' are kept secret from children
- Adults can read, children cannot
- Separate status came with mass literacy in 19th Century
- Evaluation
- OPIE
- childhood isn't disappearing
- Researched unsupervised children's games
- Strong evidence of the continued existance of a sepsrate children's culture
- Researched unsupervised children's games
- childhood isn't disappearing
- Postman over-emphasis one factor; TV
- OPIE
- Childhood is disappearing
- POSTMAN
- Childhood in Postmodernity
- JENKS
- Agrees with Aries that childhood is a creation of society
- Modern society considers childhood as preparation to become a productive adult
- Children need to be nurtured
- Post Modern society = more unstable = divorce
- Parents become more fearful of children's safety
- Disagree with Postman
- Parents become more fearful of children's safety
- Evaluation
- Strength = children seen as more important than partners
- Weakness = Jenks over-generalisation that children are all in same position
- JENKS
- The Disappearance of Childhood
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