social change in the concept of childhood

  • Greece
    1200 BCE

    Greece

    Greece (1200 B.C. to 145 B.C.) focused on the integral development of the people and liberal education was created where men were the privileged ones and developed literature, arithmetic, philosophy and science, physical education, but they also had to learn to read and write.
  • child infanticide
    318 BCE

    child infanticide

    Infanticide was a practice in which the father could decide whether or not to accept the newborn, since for different reasons such as malformations, economic or bad luck in the case of girls they decided whether he died or not. This was practiced in Rome and Greece and stopped with Christianity.
  • ROME
    27 BCE

    ROME

    In Rome (27 a.C. - 476 d.C)., wealthy boys could study and some girls could study if their parents let them. It loses importance the liberal education and gains more physical education (sport), consists of three stages the schooling ludus, grammar and rhetoric.
  • CENTURY V-XV
    476

    CENTURY V-XV

    Middle Ages (476 d.C - 1492) : influenced by Christianity, the church controls education and liberal education disappears. The objective is to prepare the child to serve God, the church and its representatives, educating him in virtue. Girls were not considered for the study.
  • CENTURY XV - XVIII
    1453

    CENTURY XV - XVIII

    -Renaissance 17th century: liberal education disappears completely and classical ideas about childhood resurface, as in the observation of children.
    -In children's nature.
    -Studies the need for adaptation of the child and defends education for women.
    -The child is born neither good nor bad, everything depends on his experiences.
    -The industrial revolution slows down, which causes the child labor force to decline and the need for schooling arises overtime...
  • CENTURY XVII - XIX:

    CENTURY XVII - XIX:

    Rousseau (1712-1778) focuses on the fact that the child is good by nature, apart from defending here that education should be adapted to the child and his actions, experiences help to acquire knowledge; that is, it is not only the word. It also defends the inclusion of women in education.
  • END OF THE XIX CENTURY

    END OF THE XIX CENTURY

    The ideas of innovative pedagogues and philosophers such as :
    - Pestalozzi (1746 - 1827)
    - Tiedemann (1748 - 1803)
    - Froebel (1782 - 1852)
    - Kindergarten is created and they talk about : The importance of children's play, parent-child interaction, school and its continuity school-home-community and observing children.
  • MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY XX

    MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY XX

    The new education is not limited to the school and the family.
  • UNESCO

    UNESCO

    Achieving education for all
    Providing leadership in education.
    Fighting poverty
  • UNICEF CREATION

    UNICEF CREATION

    protect the rights of children around the world. UNICEF was created to work towards a specific goal which is to overcome the obstacles of poverty, violence, disease and discrimination against children in the world.
  • CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

    CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

    Fundamental. Fundamental (children's rights) such as:
    - Participation
    - Survival and development
    - Best interest of the child
    - Non-discrimination
    Childhood is recognized as a full and a period that contains its own characteristics and needs, the child as a person with rights, personal identity with dignity and freedom.
  • World Conference on Education for All

    World Conference on Education for All

    The new goals are a global consensus that brings together an expanded vision of basic education and a renewed commitment to ensure that the basic learning needs of all children are met.
  • LET'S START WITH COLOMBIA

    LET'S START WITH COLOMBIA

    Colombia's political constitution, which defines that the rights of children prevail over those of other persons.
  • LAW 115

    LAW 115

    Law 115 of education is created where the preschool corresponds to that stage of childhood of the child to be able to develop integrally from all areas through experience and socialization.
    Cognitive
    Socio-affective
    Psychomotor
    Spiritual
    Biological
  • CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

    CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

    the international commission on early childhood education for the 22nd century states that early schooling contributes to equality of opportunity.