The Future Of Childhood Flashcards
(33 cards)
What is a ‘toxic childhood’
Where the rapid technological and cultural changes has led children to have their physical, emotional and intellectual development damaged due to the main factors such as decline in language and access to news.
What main factors have made childhood ‘toxic’ in Sue Palmer’s argument?
- Language is declining
- Poor listening skills
- Electronics (Tv’s, phones, consoles)
- access to marketing through electronics
- less sociable
- access to news
- not controlled by parents enough
What do child liberationists believe children are victims of?
Age patriarchy - this is the idea that they are dominated or controlled by adults
Who believes that childhood is disappearing ‘at a dazzling speed’
Neil Postman
Why does Neil Postman believe childhood is disappearing?
- Children having the same rights as adults
- the disappearance of traditional unsupervised games
- the growing similarity of children and adult clothing
- Cases of children committing ‘adult’ crimes such as murder
- the rise and fall of print culture and its replacement by television culture.
Why is children becoming more literate at a young age ruining childhood?
They can read articles which can contain things such as sex, money and death when before in the old days they couldn’t, so these delicate subjects were more hidden.
why does television break down the boundary between children and adults?
It does not have and special skills required to access it so it makes information more available to children, destroying the information hierarchy.
Who came up with the idea of ‘Toxic childhood’
Sue Palmer
Which known theorist disagrees with Neil Postman and says childhood is not disappearing?
Iona Opie
Why does Iona Opie think childhood is not disappearing?
there is strong evidence that children do create their own independent culture from adults as she saw in traditional nursery rhymes and games.
What do theorists think children are losing due to mass literacy?
Their innocence
What are the 4 ways children are controlled by?
Space (bedroom, playground), time (curfew, bed times, getting up times), bodies (what they wear, eat.) and access (web filters, presents, the money they’ve been given)
Who are the key thinkers of childhood in the future
Sue Palmer
Iona Opie
Neil Postman
What are the key terms of childhood in the future
- Globalisation
- cotton wool kids
- helicopter parents
- toxic childhood
- information patriarchy
- dazzling speed
- mass literacy
- age patriachy
What are helicopter parents?
They are parents that ‘hover’ over their offspring. filling their spare time with extra activities and tuition to make them be the best they can.
What can go wrong with helicopter parents?
It can create too much pressure for children where they might no be able to cope with failure later on in life.
What are cotton wool kids?
They are kids that are watched over 24/7 and are given limited social skills in order to be safe from any risks such as kidnapping.
What can go wrong with cotton wool kids?
They may become insecure and have a false idea on the world because her/his parents have been telling a different story the whole time.
child liberationists argue that the western notion of childhood is being globalised, why is this a bad thing?
It is just a view on what childhood should ‘ought’ to be, while in that culture of that third world country it may be the norm to do that certain activity as an important preparation for adult life.
What does Philippe Aries (1960) argue about the historical differences in childhood?
Between 10th and 13th century,childhood did not exist.They were not seen as having a different nature.
What fact factors of Philippe Aries idea that children and adults were the same?
They entered wider society at a young age,beginning work early in life and considered ‘mini adults’.Evidence shows a painting were adults and children are dressed the same playing together and working.
What are the many reasons for changes in the position of children?
Laws restrict child labour and excluding paid work.
Compulsory education.
Child protection and welfare legislation’s.
The growth of children’s rights.
Declining family size and lower infant mortality.
Children’s health and development.
Laws and policies that apply specifically to children.
Who has the view that childhood has improved?
March of progress view.
What do the march of progress view about childhood?
That over the past few centuries the position of children in western societies has steadily improving.
