Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Childhood
- Aries (1979)
- childhood is a social construct
- miniature adults - treated equally to adults
- not perceived to be different
- named 'children' instead of 'babies'
- created life stage as response to
socio-economical things during revolution
- reinforced by compulsory state schooling
- Morrow (2011)
- adults constructed different world for children
- provide and support
- schools and other benefits
- children understood as learners
- Watts (1973)
- child is a "candidate for humanity"
- child is conditioned
- adults prepare the child's life
- Scruton (1997)
- social perception
- innocent, naive,
vulnerable,
ignorant,
undisciplined
- social constraint
- adults say what children can/cannot do
- safe from harm
- social oppression
- childhood experiences
reconstructed by adults
- power = responsiblitiy
- control = care
- regulatoion = protection
- Childhood Theory
- when children step outside 'normal'
perceptions of childhood, chaos
erupts
- Adults' role
- keep order through power
- define boundaries
- construct child's life
- children dependent on what they need
- direct children to obey
- oppress to limit space
- Gender
- seems natural due to
constant interaction with it
- children's cartoons - words match visuals
- Bob the Builder
- less female representation
- Winx Club
- sexualisation
- gender stereotypes
- Barbie/Ken dolls
- unrealistic physical apearance
- obsession with changing clothes
- lifestyle