ECED 406 Chapter 5.3: ECED 406 Chapter 5.: edec 406 5.3
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The sociology of childhood in relation to children"s rights; berry mayell (2001) The problem - why and how to re-think childhood. Children and childhood have become the object of massive interventions. The need to monitor children"s development has led to unprecedented surveillance of children both at school and at home. In the first place, childhood is a political issue. Theories about what children need, about how they develop and what input from adults is therefore appropriate, are indeed theories or stories (rather than facts) and practices that derive exclusively from adult perspectives. In the second place an interlinked point in defining children as inferior, as objects essentially of adult socialization we depersonalize children. **** so important *** we deny children the right to participate in the structuring of their childhoods. Though we may work to protect children and provide for them, we find it much harder to take children seriously as contributors to social thinking and social policies.
