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Flashcards by Sally Cavaglieri, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sally Cavaglieri
over 10 years ago
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| Puritans saw children as being born instinctively sinful who should be ruled by their father and disciplined with iron rod ~ children had to be taught obedience and brought to God by punishment | Locke Argued children however were born with a blank slate (Tabula Rasa) waiting to be filled with information ~ he placed great emphasis on the environment and experiences that could help shape the child ~ he saw children as being capable of education but in other ways a problem ~ he believed it pointless to beat children if they did not understand but once they did they should fear the rod |
| Jean-Jacque Rousseau argued children would essentially do the right thing but were corrupted by adult world but he believed if given time and space children will develop at their own pace and learn about life through the experiences they receive ~ He initiated Romantic view saying society corrupted children ~ he was influential advocate of the central idea of modern childhood, that children are special and should develop in natural surroundings | He was one of first philosophers to construct childhood I terms of developmental phases which education should be based around but they should be free to play in the open air His view supported Romantic view of the time ~ where poets imagined a childhood as lost Eden from which Adults were excluded ~ In England this shifted from nature to horror as Industrialisation Era took shape where it was felt childhood would be oppressed by effects of Industrial Revolution ~ His views continue to inform contemporary attitudes to children |
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