HLTC23H3 Lecture : Lecture 1
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everything written in paper assignment should be in past tense. In this lecture: define childhood versus infancy. natural history of the concept of childhood. childhood is cultural artefact, whereas infancy is biologically determined. The greeks had no real word for child, and children"s lives were pretty precarious back in the days. what constitutes childhood has a concept: neil postman argued once we had concept of shame that started to change society. now we t ry to protect children from certain kind of information and knowledge such as sexual secrets. early on rome, there was a law preventing infanticide: the practice was acceptable if the child was deformed, female or in some other way undesirable. The middle ages (also known as dark ages as we like to call it: literacy disappeared during middle ages. People couldn"t read and write because they were educated. reading speed even among the literate diminished significantly.
