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Childhood
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2nd Year Media: Messages & Meanings (Childhood) Mind Map on Childhood, created by Jade Jannotti on 12/01/2014.
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childhood
media: messages & meanings
media: messages & meanings
childhood
2nd year
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Jade Jannotti
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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
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