The future of childhood
- Created by: elizabethrobertson12
- Created on: 02-05-17 13:50
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- The future of childhood
- The disappearance of childhood
- •Postman (1994) – childhood is disappearing at a dazzling speed: •Similarity in clothing •Same rights as adults
- Reason: the information hierarchy - e.g. the media - can't protect children from seeing adulthood anymore.
- Evaluation
- •Postman (1994) – childhood is disappearing at a dazzling speed: •Similarity in clothing •Same rights as adults
- Childhood in post-modernity
- •Jenks (2005): childhood is
changing but not disappearing
–Childhood a creation of modern society
–Concerned with futurity and preparation to become
productive adult
–Children needed to be nurtured by child-centred family
achieve this
–In postmodernity family is more unstable and insecure
–Relationship with child becomes most stable part of
identity and leads to over-protection
–Even more separate from adults than before
- Evaluation
- •Some evidence that parents see relationships with children as more important that with partners, and that parents are more worried about risks children face, but only from small unrepresentative studies.
- •Jenks overgeneralises and ignores the rich diversity of family life today. Not all children are in the same position.
- Evaluation
- •Jenks (2005): childhood is
changing but not disappearing
–Childhood a creation of modern society
–Concerned with futurity and preparation to become
productive adult
–Children needed to be nurtured by child-centred family
achieve this
–In postmodernity family is more unstable and insecure
–Relationship with child becomes most stable part of
identity and leads to over-protection
–Even more separate from adults than before
- The disappearance of childhood
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