| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
ix, 166 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Early childhood education series |
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Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press)
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| Summary |
"Throughout history certain theories of childhood have influenced the way we have understood, cared for, and educated our young. These theories form the bases of our attitudes toward children, and underpin our popular childrearing practices. Yet they have passed through history for the most part unexamined. In [this book], authors John Cleverley and D.C. Phillips unveil the central and often surprising notions that have shaped our conceptions of childhood in the Western world. Bringing the skills of the historian and philosopher to bear, the authors examine those visions of the child that have become the most influential, including the work of Locke, Rousseau, Freud, Piaget, Marx, and Dewey. In probing these ideas, the authors trace the development of a variety of identifable models, including the environmentalist, the atomistic, and the deterministic."--Book's back cover. |
| Contents |
Seeing children throughout history -- Child and environment -- Free and constrained child -- Child and the species -- Loss of innocence -- Ages of man -- Upbringing fit for society -- Conditioned child -- Thinking machine. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 147-160. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Education -- Philosophy -- History.
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Children -- Social conditions.
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Child rearing -- History.
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Child rearing.
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| Added Author |
Phillips, D. C. (Denis Charles), 1938-
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| ISBN |
0807728012 |
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9780807728017 |
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0807728004 paperback |
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9780807728000 paperback |
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