102048 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Margaret Mead, Jean Piaget, Symbolic Interactionism
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Dominant accounts of childhood: rationality, naturalness and universality and the three enduring themes surrounding the key concepts in the study of children and childhood. "childhood was a universal and historical human condition" "the naturalness od children both governs and is governed by their universality" "rationality is the universal mark of adulthood with childhood representing the period of appre(cid:374)ti(cid:272)eship for its develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)hildhood is a biologically determined stage on the path to full human status" James and prout, (2008) constructing and reconstructing childhood, (page 10-20) Limitations of piaget: piaget theory understates the contribution of social world to cognitive development, piaget"s tasks are all culturally biased, the stage model depicts children"s thinking as being more consistent that it is. Infants and young children are more cognitively competent that piaget recognised. Socialisation is a process in which a child acquires a specific cultural identity and to their responds to such identity.
