CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Best Interests, Factory Acts, Middle Ages
7 Mar 2013
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Ii/ childhood into the 20th and 21st centuries. Iii/ shaping policy: un convention on the rights of the child. Looking at history denaturalizes how we see childhood in the present. The un crc reflects specific ideas about childhood. The un crc is a key policy document with strengths and weaknesses. Disrupts ideas of natural" or normal" in the present. Does our thinking about childhood in the present reflect certain economic/industrial conditions? if so, who benefits and how might this thinking perpetuate inequality? (critical theory) Is current childhood just one of many possibilities that makes sense in different contexts (constructionist): shifts in ideas: the invention of childhood, philippe aries centuries of childhood. Thesis: modern childhood emerged in europe between the 15th and 18th centuries. Agreement: the form that childhood takes is socially and historically specific. And there were dramatic shifts in childhood from the middle ages into industrialization. Debates with aries: shifts in material conditions, features of western industrialization.
