CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Waiting On The World To Change, Tabula Rasa, Biological Determinism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Dawn Zinga

Document Summary

Tried to cover things that haven"t already been covered. Definitions = 1 question = 7-8 min. Take a min to outline your essays. Discourse: describes and creates truths, comes from a perspective, has a history, circulated, repeated knowledge, masquerades as commonsense. Discourses of childhood: rousseau"s innocence, locke"s tabula rasa. Moral panic: magnified by media, based on fear: Un convention on the rights of the child (crc: globally young people are vulnerable, global rights treaty (1989): Low paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement . Commodified childhood: childhood as, children as consumers/market, differentiation. Stage of life that requires unique toys, products, foods, etc. Gender: normative model of sex/gender, emphasized femininity and hegemonic masculinity, resistance to gender norms pushes boundaries. Sexuality: childhood constructed as opposite to sexuality, ruptures childhood innocence, heterosexual matrix constructs normal, homophobia a direct result. Class based bullying = feeling out of step w/ school culture.