HIST 3320: The History of Childhood
Read
- Chapter 5 Forces of Change and the Modern Model of Childhood, Developments in the West: Eighteenth century to 1914.Stearns, P. N. (2016). Forces of Change and the Modern Model of Childhood, Developments in the West: Eighteenth century to 1914. In Childhood in World History. ProQuest Ebook Central
- The Romantic Child, c.1780-1830Christopher Rovee. The Romantic Child, c.1780-1830
- The Victorian Child, c.1837-1901Marah Gubar. The Victorian Child, c.1837-1901
- Women and Children During the Industrial Revolution in EnglandDan Moorhouse (n.d) Women and Children During the Industrial Revolution in England. BBC
- Child Labor | Human Rights WatchFor comparison with the present, visit the Human Rights Watch website on Child Labor:
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Discussion Question
- What were the forces of global change that effected modern childhood? Did they effect children of all classes and regions uniformly?
- What was the new cultural definition of childhood that evolved in the Victorian era? What do we mean by the Victorian child?
- Did the new ideology of domesticity and child rearing match with real life conditions of all children?
- Think about diverse examples from different countries and cultures to illustrate your argument.
Work to do
Discussion Board #3 (300-350 words) due on Blackboard
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- What kind of reactions do the six narratives of “Representing Childhood” provoke in your mind? Do you notice a Eurocentric bias in those essays? Are those essays helpful in understanding a global history of childhood? Or, are they partial and misleading for childhoods outside of Europe or the non-West? If you were to edit the essays, what might you suggest to the author for a more nuanced understanding of the history of childhood?
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