ENGLIT 0560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Constructionism, Developmentalism, Ontogeny
29 Jan 2019
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Social construction of childhood means that the form and meaning of childhood can vary significantly across time, place, and community. Treating children is based off of cultural norms and not facts. Development: dominant framework, all (normal) children go through a natural process of development linked to their physical growth, in which they progress from irrationality to rationality. Developmental approaches account for differences between children and adults, and between children of different ages, as products of natural developmental processes, not history, social structure, culture, geography, etc. Focus on individual child independent of history, location, context. Children (and adults) may be many different things. Focus on children in society, in specific histories, locations, context. Focus on children"s present (with history and biography as context) Individual development of the organism parallels group evolution of the species. Sees people as remote, small-scale, contemporary societies as pre-historic humans.
