The future of childhood
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- Created on: 19-10-17 09:16
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- The future of childhood
- The disappearance of childhood
- Postman(1994)- argues that childhood is 'disappearing at a dazzling speed'
- The growing similarities of adults' and children's clothing and even cases of children committing 'adult' crimes like murder
- The information hierarchy
- Postman argues childhood is separate status along with mass literacy
- The printed word creates an information hierarchy : a sharp division between adults, who can read and children who can not
- Adults could keep knowledge about sex, money, violence, illness and death secret from children
- The TV destroys the information hierarchy. The TV does not require skills to access it and it makes information available to children
- Evaluation: Opie(1993) argues that childhood isn't disappearing. Rhymes, songs and unsupervised games show strong evidence of the continued existence of childhood.
- Postman argues childhood is separate status along with mass literacy
- Childhood in postmodernity
- Jenks (2005) does not believe childhood is disappearing but it is changing. Childhood continues as a separate status.
- Jenks agrees with Aries that childhood was a creation of modern society. He was concerned about the future of the child.
- The child needed to be nurtured, protected and controlled.
- Jenks agrees with Aries that childhood was a creation of modern society. He was concerned about the future of the child.
- Adults are more fearful of their children's security and protecting them from child abuse.
- Evaluation: There's some evidence that parents see their relationship with their children as more important than with their partners. Jenks is guilty of over-generalising.
- Jenks (2005) does not believe childhood is disappearing but it is changing. Childhood continues as a separate status.
- The disappearance of childhood
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