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Questão | Responda |
Historians on Childhood | Interested in childhood and over the years different ways of studying childhood and the daily lives of children using a variety of different sources, such as written (archives and official statistics), visual sources (paintings and drawings) and archaeological sources (settlement sites) |
Romanticism Beginning of the 19th century | change in attitudes from the state who now saw it as the authorities duty to protect and bring up children correctly |
Government developed welfare state 19th century | The state monitored and recorded the lives of children in order to protect them. Archive records included (schools, hospitals, government associations) |
Literacy sources - early-modern childhood | Real-life accounts of daily events -childcare manuals, letters, diaries, autobiographies and imaginative literterature were available from around the Graeco-Roman era |
Visual sources Renaissance/Victorian | Family portraits -show historians how children are represented across time and within different relationships and places but they also help build up an image of how ideas about childhood itself changes over time |
Aries (1960) Most influential historians from the post-war era | Research - Centuries of Childhood Clear and simple distinction between the concept of childhood and adulthood once a child was independent from its parents in the being able to communicate and walk they were then regarded as an adult as they are physically able to work and contribute towards the family’s income |
16th and 17th century the emergence of the modern family | Complete change in attitudes and parents developed a more romanticised view that children were central to all family life |
Aries strongest claim - “Children did not count” | children under the age of 7 up until the end of the 17th era because high mortality rates meant adults did not bond with their children until their survival was more likely and they reached seven years old |
Linda Pollock (1983) totally refuses Aries | high morality amongst children meant parents were all concerned with loosing them and so they were greatly appreciated and loved within their family units |
Lloyd de Mause (1974) -Nightmare picture of childhood | Book - “The History of Childhood children were often abused both physically and sexually, disowned and even killed fear of their parents and were subjected to constant pain and misery from their parents who showed them no love, care or protection |
Christians - childhood constructed as a time of evil and wildness | even un-born foetuses were evil and rebellious and should be considered un-clean and sinful |
Puritans (Same view as Christians) | claimed children were highly sinful and thus they believed in physical punishment to instil obedience |
John Locke (1962) was completely opposed to the views of the Christians and Puritans | children were a blank state but ultimately products of their environment and thus need positive influences in the way of education, guidance and experience to become successful adults |
Rousseau - Romantic philosopher from the 18th century - childhood is a time of innocence | children were extremely precious and thus needed protecting, nurturing and love children were born innocent and pure and only became evil and sinful when corrupted by their others in their environment clear emphasis on play being central to childhood |
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