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The evolution of childhood

By carosp
  • 5000 BCE

    Ancient Egipt

    Ancient Egipt
    Kagheim: theach your boy in a obedient man Merikara: childhood is for instruccion of trades Childrens were consider as them father's successors in royalty, into the lower social classes were considered as servants.
  • 1800 BCE

    Ancient Greece

    Ancient Greece
    the child is considered as a draft adult, devoid of qualities to be a virtuous human being who has not character and with a big lack of will.
  • 509 BCE

    Ancient Rome

    Ancient Rome
    child subject to the authority of the patriarch, alien to family and society
  • 476

    Middle Age

    Middle Age
    It does not matter if the child lives or dies. Conception of servant not master property.
    XI-XIII centuries : the Pope had authority over the education of children Humanism
    prepare children to serve God
    Providing education regardless of social class
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Modern Age

    Modern Age
    Reform: education as a means of social control
    children were conceived as beings that need of protection
    childhood as a concept of autonomy the childs were conceived as trying to educate future men, which means future citizens, husbands, parents.
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau
    childhood as a period of innocence, before the child knew the dangers of society. Training from the senses, consciousness and intelligence. Children are able to learn.
  • Contemporary Age late XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI centuries

    Contemporary Age late XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI centuries
    establishing protecting children laws
    Childhood: subject with feelings
    need instruction
    adaptive education to maturational level
    Kindergarten appearance
    women's access to education
    child as a person
    social subject
    moral subject
    subject with needs
    cognitive development