Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Devadasi, Mines And Collieries Act 1842, Industrial Revolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

Document Summary

4 - childhood part ii - the other childhood experiences. A lot of ideas about what a childhood should be are related to industrial revolution and the education system. The institution of mandatory schooling dramatically changed how children were raised. They began to spend more time with their peers and less time with their parents. School had a huge impact on how we understand childhood. Dominant ideas about childhood are from the west. Another reality: children and childhood in the 1800"s (uk) Big changes in how britain was being organized socially and politically. Materials and textiles were being exported to the many. Coal mines and oil being exported to the british colonies. Gave britain a lot of power globally because they were exporting so much. Globalization was very influenced by the industrial revolution. The idea that children shouldn"t work is originated in the western parts of the world. Children are being told what they have to do.