CHYS 1F90 Lecture 3: lecture 3.doc
18 Apr 2012
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Lecture 3: ideas about childhood the west and the rest. Ii/ childhood into the 20th and 21st centuries. Iii/ shaping policy: un convention on the rights of the child. I/ historicizing western childhood: challenge of historical data. Making inferences: shifts in ideas: the invention of childhood, philippe aries centuries of childhood. Method: debates with aries, on the evidence, on the causes of shifts, agreement the form that childhood takes is socially and historically specific. The nature of childhood has been defined very differently in different eras. 2: features of western industrialization, work and the lives of children. Shift away from apprenticing or learning in home: gradual shift to include working children, consolidating middle class childhood. * child defined as under 16 and working full time. Minister of supply and services, 1983, second edition, series w67-93. Ii/ childhood into the 20th and 21st centuries: removal from work, established schooling. Age grading: extended childhood, shifts in child autonomy, shifts in protections.
