YC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canada 2011 Census, Child Pornography, Middle Ages
31 May 2020
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Lecture 1: focus on experiences and treatment of children in particular societies, during specific period of time. World history approach", capturing the big picture": pays attention to the major changes and continuities in the concept of childhood, difficult to determine similarities and differences across societies, requires awareness of both global and regional trends in childhood. Lecture 1: children are citizens in the making (archard, 2004) (through socialization children are made into citizens) Interests and needs are different from adults need proper care (role models: born free of reason: tabula rasa or blank slate, learn from experience and proper education. Jean-jacques rousseau: considered the inventor" or the concept of childhood, childhood not only quantitative but also qualitative, wrote the social contract (1762) Man" is born free but everywhere is in chains: a child is born carefree and innocent but not blank" and unequal and not of sin" (priests and educators)
