CHYS 3P99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neoliberalism, Decision-Making
15 May 2018
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January 19, 2018
Week 2: Participation within and beyond the CRC
First quiz:
• Main points in the article
• Mythology
o Some of the detail, what they did
o Read the articles
• Multiple Choice
Participation and the rise of individual choice-making
• From mid-century stability…
o Where people were assumed to have predictable role
▪ You were known what to do as a women and man
o Progression from school to work and that you would stay at some job
o Your community would be watching each other
o Children didn’t have much to say
▪ Children weren’t involved in big family decisions
▪ Volunteering with their church
• Especially boys
• To individualized precarity
o No guarantee that your job last very long
o A lot of jobs are usually contract
o Hired for a specific among of time
o Usually don’t get hired right out of high school
o Shift way of getting a pension
o As an individual you would have to do things on your own to provide for
yourself
o More recognition in equality
▪ More freedom in not having to do what your parents are telling
them
Why this shift?
• Rise of neo-liberal political orientation
• Shift from manufacturing to service industries
o Partly because the movement of a lot of factories away
o Increase in automation
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o Better paying
• Rise in cheap consumer goods
• Shift from state and community to individual
• Erosion of expected roles
What on earth does this have to do with children’s participation??
• Shift away from children’s freedom and autonomy in the public realm
• Rise in children’s voice and choice in the home, especially as consumers.
• Shift towards online participation
• Usually have groups of children walking around together, rather having a
kid walking around by themselves
• CHILDREN MOSTLY HAVE A SAY IN THEIR OWN HOUSE since they
spend most of their time at their house
o Ex. What they want to eat or watch on the TV
• Usually at the age of 10, children spend their time online talking to friends or
adults
VIDEO
• Most children usually spend most of their time inside, watching TV and the news
• Most parent are scared to leave their children alone outside
o Most parents are usually outside watching their children play
• Parents usually feel free to express their child’s anxiety
• Parents usually giver their child a phone or a tracking device so that way
they always know where their child is
Key points here:
• Children’s material lives change over time of 20th century
o How things are now agents always how they were before
o These valuing of things change over time
o Children are being nurtured more to be more intendent
▪ IN ORDER TO MAKE SMARTER CHOICES
• What we value for children changes over time
• Current emphasis on participation is linked to context
o Framed as an improvement – progress
o We want to listen to kids and value what they say
▪ Community involvement
• Certain understanding of agency
o People only get agency when they’re adults
o Kids feel that they don’t have any agency
▪ Teachers provide kids with more agency
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Document Summary
Week 2: participation within and beyond the crc. First quiz: main points in the article, mythology, some of the detail, what they did, read the articles, multiple choice. Why this shift: rise of neo-liberal political orientation, shift from manufacturing to service industries, partly because the movement of a lot of factories away, increase in automation. 2: better paying, rise in cheap consumer goods, shift from state and community to individual, erosion of expected roles. What they want to eat or watch on the tv: usually at the age of 10, children spend their time online talking to friends or adults. What are some concrete examples suggesting yes or no: both my parents were very conservative, so they would not let me leave the house or hangout with my friends. I wasn"t allowed to have a cellphone until the age of 14 and when i did have a phone i could only use it for emergencies.
