ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Some Thoughts Concerning Education, James Janeway, Pocketbook International
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Children are: imaginative; impressionable; na ve; curious; intuitive; intelligent in overlooked ways; carefree; creative; open-minded; impulsive; skewed moral compass. Childhood ends when: a moral/social view is developed; a sense of responsibility is developed; self-actualization begins; society milestones. Definitions of children and childhood vary according to. Childhood and children are concepts whose meaning shifts over time and across cultures. No pictures of children in medieval painting: this may have been because 65% of children died before the age of five. So there was no real point in painting a child if they re going to die. Ari s argues there was no such thing as medieval childhood: the children were extensions of the adults. Nb argument applies only to western europe: there s no representation of other cultures. Following ari s, possible to argue that children as distinct category invented late c17th-c18th.
