Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abstract Logic, Social Capital, Equa
15 Dec 2016
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Waller and davis an thorough overview of how childhood is approached. Introduces us to a diverse array of international perspectives. Includes contextual information regarding the changes in how we understand the study of childhood as well as the experience of childhood: very important for us given our interest in the construction of knowledge over time. There has been much debate about these key issues and traditionally our understanding of childhood and children comes from psychology. Through this lens childhood is considered mobile & shifting", it"s not xed or always stable. These are radical ideas considering that universality, normalcy", and linear development of childhood adulthood were standard until the mid-1980s-90s. The role and function of the normal" child (pg. 29: where these standard ideas about childhood were produced . (pg. Ideas about development images children aren"t simple grids waiting to be lled in by parents and things around them they ll it for themselves.
