CHST 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Child Studies
• Course: CHST 1000
• Professor: Monica Patterson

Document Summary

Understanding of childhood vary widely across time and space within societies and communities! Ideas about and capacities for attending to children"s needs,welfare, and best interests vary between cultures! Understanding,signi cance, and meaning are developed not secretly within the individual but through language and culture, in coordination with other human beings! The interdisciplinary study of the early period of the human life-course that is legally recognized and socially ( as well as , in part,scienti cally) de ned as childhood, as distinct from adulthood. ! London: sage, 2008, p 25 ( good resource in the library)! => therefore, a comprehensive understanding of childhood demands multi-and interdisciplinary studies! Disciplines can be a way of organizing knowledge! *think of the exercises as added tutorials and applied questions from personal experiences and issues in reading! * combine what is in class, with presentations, and readings,outlines and extra readings in the books! Most info and academia from child studies is focused in the uk!