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A historical sociology of childhood : developmental thinking, categorization and graphic visualization /
What constitutes a 'normal' child? Throughout the nineteenth century public health and paediatrics played a leading role in the image and conception of children. By the twentieth century psychology had moved to the forefront, transforming our thinking and understanding. Andre Turmel invest...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What constitutes a 'normal' child? Throughout the nineteenth century public health and paediatrics played a leading role in the image and conception of children. By the twentieth century psychology had moved to the forefront, transforming our thinking and understanding. Andre Turmel investigates these transformations both from the perspective of the scientific observation of children (public hygiene, paediatrics, psychology and education) and from a public policy standpoint (child welfare, health policy, education and compulsory schooling). Using detailed historical accounts from Britain, the USA and France, Turmel studies how historical sequential development and statistical reasoning have led to a concept of what constitutes a 'normal' child and resulted in a form of standardization by which we monitor children. He shows how western society has become a child-centred culture and asks whether we continue to base parenting and teaching on a view of children that is no longer appropriate. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-338) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511489099 0511489099 9780511424137 0511424132 9780511422485 0511422482 1107184002 9781107184008 1281775657 9781281775658 9786611775650 661177565X 0511423659 9780511423659 0511421826 9780511421822 0511423144 9780511423147 |