HIST 3320: The History of Childhood
An OER for Prof. Swapna Banerjee
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- Unit 1: Introduction. Thinking Historically
- Unit 2: Childhood in History
- Unit 3: Primary and Secondary Sources. Conceptualizing and Writing Childhood
- Unit 4: Childhood in Agricultural Societies and in the Classical Civilization
- Unit 5: Medieval and Early Modern Childhood
- Unit 6: The Postclassical World and the Rise of Modern Childhood (17th- 20th century)
- Unit 7: John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Unit 8-9: Midterm. The Victorian Child
- Unit 10: African American and Indian Childhood
- Unit 11: Children and Family: A View from Late Colonial India
- Unit 12: Childhood in Japan and China
- Unit 13: Brainstorming Final Project. The State of Modern Children
- Unit 14: The World of non-kin and Traveling Caregivers
- Unit 15: Native American Children. Children in the Margins
- Unit 16: Children, War, and Globalization
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Unit 7 Readings and Assignments Fall 2024
Week 7: John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft
Tuesday, Oct. 8; Thursday, Oct. 10
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Required Reading
Tuesday Oct. 8
Primary Sources
- John Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education.” (Excerpts)This E-text is from the edition included in The Educational Writings of John Locke, edited by John William Adamson, published by Cambridge University Press in 1922. This edition was based primarily on the 1693 first print, but it includes most of the passages that Locke added in subsequent prints. For better readability, Adamson slightly modernized the spelling, replacing words like strengthen'd" or "physick" with "strengthened" and "physic", and using lowercase where in the original Print, numerous Nouns had Capitals like in this Sentence.
- Some Thoughts Concerning EducationWiki article on John Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education” provides a good overview
"Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Jan. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Thoughts_Concerning_Education
Required Reading
Thursday Oct. 10
Primary Sources
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education (Excerpts)Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Jules Steeg, and Eleanor Worthington. Émile, Or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three Books. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co, 1889. Internet resource.
- Emile, or On Education"Emile, or On Education." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education
- Full Text of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.Read Chapter XII, “On National Education”
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. New York: Bartleby.com, Inc, 1999. Internet resource. NOTE: Read Chapter XII, “On National Education,” https://www.bartleby.com/144/12.html (Read from para 68 onwards)
Recommended Reading
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and the Vindication on the Rights of Women.Steven Kreis. (13 Apr. 2012) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and the Vindication on the Rights of Women.
- The Eighteenth-Century ChildAndrew O’Malley. The Eighteenth-Century Child.
Discussion Questions
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Discussion Questions:
- What does John Locke advocate in his Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)? Do you think it is still important to us?
- Do you think Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (1762) is fundamental to the understanding of the modern child in the West? Do you think his ideas of education were gender neutral? Substantiate your answers with suitable examples.
- What role did Mary Wollstonecraft play in envisioning education for women?
- The readings for this week are revealing in developing an understanding of modern childhood. What kind of reactions do the readings, including the primary sources, evoke in your mind? Do you think Locke, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft are important for our understanding of modern childhood?
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