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The Philosophy of Childhood

Author : Gareth Matthews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674265858
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Childhood written by Gareth Matthews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many questions, such an imagination, endless speculation: the child seems to be a natural philosopher--until the ripe old age of eight or nine, when the spirit of inquiry mysteriously fades. What happened? Was it something we did--or didn't do? Was the child truly the philosophical being he once seemed? Gareth Matthews takes up these concerns in The Philosophy of Childhood, a searching account of children's philosophical potential and of childhood as an area of philosophical inquiry. Seeking a philosophy that represents the range and depth of children's inquisitive minds, Matthews explores both how children think and how we, as adults, think about them. Adult preconceptions about the mental life of children tend to discourage a child's philosophical bent, Matthews suggests, and he probes the sources of these limiting assumptions: restrictive notions of maturation and conceptual development; possible lapses in episodic memory; the experience of identity and growth as "successive selves," which separate us from our own childhoods. By exposing the underpinnings of our adult views of childhood, Matthews, a philosopher and longtime advocate of children's rights, clears the way for recognizing the philosophy of childhood as a legitimate field of inquiry. He then conducts us through various influential models for understanding what it is to be a child, from the theory that individual development recapitulates the development of the human species to accounts of moral and cognitive development, including Piaget's revolutionary model. The metaphysics of playdough, the authenticity of children's art, the effects of divorce and intimations of mortality on a child--all have a place in Matthews's rich discussion of the philosophical nature of childhood. His book will prompt us to reconsider the distinctions we make about development and the competencies of mind, and what we lose by denying childhood its full philosophical breadth.

Unearthing childhood

Author : Robin Derricourt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526128098
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Unearthing childhood written by Robin Derricourt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to survey the ‘hidden half’ of prehistoric societies as revealed by archaeology – from Australopithecines to advanced Stone Age foragers, from farming villages to the beginnings of civilisation. Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. The burials of those who did not reach adulthood reveal clothing, personal adornment, possession and status in society, while the bodies themselves provide information on diet, health and sometimes violent death. This book demonstrates the extraordinary potential for the study of childhood within the prehistoric record, and will suggest to those interested in childhood what can be learnt from the study of the deep past.

Unearthing why

Author : Clare Britt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648827306
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Unearthing why written by Clare Britt and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of stories offerng a distinct and hopeful outlook for the future of education." -- Back cover.

Tales from Daler Cottage: Unearthing the Hidden Messages within my Children’s Stories

Author : Madeleine Watson
Publisher : Madeleine Watson
ISBN 13 : 1799234517
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales from Daler Cottage: Unearthing the Hidden Messages within my Children’s Stories by : Madeleine Watson

Download or read book Tales from Daler Cottage: Unearthing the Hidden Messages within my Children’s Stories written by Madeleine Watson and published by Madeleine Watson. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following story is true. This book is about my children’s mysteries written between the ages of 9 and 16. The years would have been 1975 to 1982. During this time, I was completely oblivious to a terrible truth about myself. I was living in Daler Cottage, the given name of my childhood home. At the age of 19, I would start a novel called The Lessons. This novel was fuelled by a burning fantasy world that was eating me up inside. For the next thirty years, I would struggle with this novel, unaware of this truth. The story of The Lessons is covered in my other book. Prior to my novel-writing phase, I was writing these mysteries as well as painting and devising plays. I kept a diary between 1977 and 1988, during which I attained a degree in Fine Art. I would continue to write and paint for many years to come. My diaries illuminate the circumstances surrounding the writing of my children’s stories. Unknown to me, clues to this horrific truth have leaked into all my creations like oil bubbling up through the ground. At the age of 51, I finally learned the truth. This book describes the decoding process to find the true meaning behind my children’s mysteries. Due to the nature of this book, names and certain details have been altered in order to protect identities and I am writing under a pseudonym. With images throughout.

Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England

Author : Miriam Müller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030036022
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England written by Miriam Müller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes – the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death – this book examines how rural society coped with children left orphaned, and land inherited by children and adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Müller looks at the guardians who looked after the children, and the chattels and lands the children brought with them. This book considers not just rural concepts of childhood, and the training and schooling young peasants received, but also the nature of supportive kinship networks, family structures and the roles of lordship, to offer insights into the experience of childhood and adolescence in medieval villages more broadly.

The Archaeology of Childhood

Author : Jane Eva Baxter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442268514
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Childhood written by Jane Eva Baxter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of The Archaeology of Childhood has been credited by many as launching an entire new area of scholarship in archaeology. This second edition, published 17 years later, retains the first edition’s emphasis on combining sources from archaeology, anthropology, environmental studies, psychology, and sociology, to create a rich interdisciplinary basis for studying childhood across time and across cultures. The second edition is updated with archaeological studies about childhood that have been published in the past 20 years, and readers will see that the archaeology of childhood is a field with a relatively short history but a rich and varied scholarship. Archaeologists study children in the very recent past, as well as Neanderthal and early modern human children, and every period in between. These studies use artifacts, the built environment, spatial analyses, the artistic representations, skeletal remains, and mortuary assemblages to illuminate the lives of children, their families, and communities. The book’s eight chapters cover: 1: The Archaeology of Childhood in Context 2: Childhood in Archaeology: Themes, Terms, and Foundations 3: The Cultural Creation of Childhood: The Idea of Socialization 4: Socialization and the Material Culture of Childhood 5: Socialization, Behavior, and the Spaces and Places of Childhood 6: Socialization, Symbols, and Artistic Representations of Children 7: Socialization, Childhood, and Mortuary Remains 8: Looking Back and Moving Forward This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the major themes in the archaeological study of childhood and introduces the concept of socialization as a way of framing archaeological scholarship on children. Case studies and examples from around the globe are included, and the author’s expertise on childhood in 18th-20th century America is drawn upon to provide more familiar examples for readers allowing them to question their own assumptions and understandings of what it means to be a child. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and learning activities.

Ages and Abilities: The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond

Author : Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789697697
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Ages and Abilities: The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond written by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores social responses to stages of childhood from the late Neolithic to Classical Antiquity in Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Comparing osteological and archaeological evidence, as well as integrating images and texts, authors consider whether childhood age classes are archaeologically recognizable.

Unearthing The Secret Garden

Author : Marta McDowell
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604699906
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Unearthing The Secret Garden written by Marta McDowell and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.

Young Children’s Existential Encounters

Author : Zoi Simopoulou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030108414
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Young Children’s Existential Encounters written by Zoi Simopoulou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a psychoanalytic observation of five children’s existential encounters in their ordinary life at the nursery. It is among the first within psychosocial literature to go beyond adult experiences and explore the existential in young children’s lives as it plays out in their everydayness in symbolic and sensory articulations and in relationship with others; including with the author as someone who arrived looking for it. The author offers analysis in the form of a writing inquiry into meaning, by means of an on-going movement between the self and the other, the interior and the exterior, and psychoanalytic and existential-phenomenological ideas. This is illustrated through a kaleidoscopic account of May, Nadia, Edward, Baba and Eilidhs’ encounters with nothingness, strangeness, ontological insecurity, death and selfhood as these emerged in the time they spent with the author embodying different forms – from concrete objects to dreams – exemplifying an attunement to existential ubiquity. With its relational ground, this work suggests the potential for adults – including researchers, therapists, trainees, educators and parents – to attune to their own existential encounters as a path to understanding those of children.

Historical Perspectives on Infant Care and Development

Author : Amanda Norman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350168483
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Historical Perspectives on Infant Care and Development written by Amanda Norman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the essential guide to understanding the historical influences that have shaped our ideas about infancy and infant care today. It introduces the key theories, themes, and concepts that have shaped the history of infant care and invites readers to explore how events, approaches, traditions, studies and stories have shaped modern day practice. From foundlings to wetnurses, community care and edu-carers, it introduces topics about family life, professional roles, and educational settings. The book includes short vignettes, imagery, and case studies as well as extended reflective questions. Each chapter introduces a different topic including pregnancy, parental relationships, developmental studies, the role of the professional and community services available to infants.

Rethinking Children and Families

Author : Nick Frost
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847060803
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Children and Families written by Nick Frost and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Foundations of Indian Psychology, Volume 2: Practical Applications

Author : Misra
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9332506485
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Indian Psychology, Volume 2: Practical Applications written by Misra and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 2: Practical Applications focuses on the practical applications of the Indian influences in Psychology. Second in a two-part series, this book discusses aspects of psychology vis-à-vis health, education and social issues. Essays in the book analyze how the theories and concepts discussed in the previous volume can be used to address issues plaguing modern society. This book is useful for students and scholars of psychology, philosophy, sociology and religion as well as the general reader.

The Children's Ghost Story in America

Author : Sean Ferrier-Watson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629080
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Children's Ghost Story in America written by Sean Ferrier-Watson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories have played a prominent role in childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in American literature is little known and seldom discussed by scholars. This book explores the fascinating origins and development of these tales, focusing on the social and historical factors that shaped them and gave birth to the genre. Ghost stories have existed for centuries but have been published specifically for children for only about 200 years. Early on, supernatural ghost stories were rare--authors and publishers, fearing they might adversely affect young minds, presented stories in which the ghost was always revealed as a fraud. These tales dominated children's publishing in the 19th century but the 20th century saw a change in perspective and the supernatural ghost story flourished.

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 2: Practical Applications

Author : Matthijs Cornelissen
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131730850
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 2: Practical Applications by : Matthijs Cornelissen

Download or read book Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 2: Practical Applications written by Matthijs Cornelissen and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume had laid the groundwork for a new study in psychology based on the fascinating theoretical and conceptual insights that Indian thought offers. Carrying forward the endeavour to broaden the view of its readers,

Steeped in Blood

Author : Frances J. Latchford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773557997
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Steeped in Blood written by Frances J. Latchford and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances Latchford questions the idea that knowing one's bio-genealogy is integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging. Upending our established values and beliefs about what makes a family, Steeped in Blood examines the social and political devaluation of adoptive ties. It takes readers on an intellectual journey through accepted wisdom about adoption, twins, kinship, and incest, and challenges our naturalistic and individualistic assumptions about identity and the biological ties that bind us, sometimes violently, to our families. Latchford exposes how our desire for bio-genealogical knowledge, understood as it is by family and adoption experts, pathologizes adoptees by posing the biological tie as a necessary condition for normal identity formation. Rejecting the idea that a love of the self-same is fundamental to family bonds, her book is a reaction to the wounds families suffer whenever they dare to revel in their difference. A rejoinder to rhetoric that defines adoptees, adoptive kin, and their family intimacies as inferior and inauthentic, Steeped in Blood's view through the lens of critical adoption studies decentres our cultural obsession with the biological family imaginary and makes real the possibility of being family in the absence of blood.

Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves

Author : Sarah M. Pike
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220862
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves written by Sarah M. Pike and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book incorporates the author's personal experience and scholarly work concerning ritual, sacred space, self-identity, and narrative.

Children, Death and Burial

Author : Eileen Murphy
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785707159
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Children, Death and Burial written by Eileen Murphy and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated in death by different cultures in the past; to gain insights concerning the roles of children of different ages in their respective societies and to find evidence of the nature of past adult–child relationships and interactions across the life course. The contextualisation and integration of the data collected, both in the field and in the laboratory, enables more nuanced understandings to be gained in relation to the experiences of the young in the past. A broad range of issues are addressed within the volume, including the inclusion/exclusion of children in particular burial environments and the impact of age in relation to the place of children in society. Child burials clearly embody identity and ‘the domestic child’, ‘the vulnerable child’, ‘the high status child’, ‘the cherished child’, ‘the potential child’, ‘the ritual child’ and the ‘political child’, and combinations thereof, are evident throughout the narratives. Investigation of the burial practices afforded to children is pivotal to enlightenment in relation to key facets of past life, including the emotional responses shown towards children during life and in death, as well as an understanding of their place within the social strata and ritual activities of their societies. An important new collection of papers by leading researchers in funerary archaeology, examining the particular treatment of juvenile burials in the past. In particular focuses on the expression of varying status and identity of children in the funerary archaeological record as a key to understanding the place of children in different societies.