Beyond the Century of the Child - 9780812237047

Beyond the Century of the ChildCultural History and Developmental Psychology\nAuthor(s): Willem Koops, Michael Zuckerman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812237047, 978-0812237047\nSynopsis\nIn 1900, Ellen Key wrote the international bestseller The Century of the Child. In this enormously influential book, she proposed that the world's children should be the central work of society during the twentieth century. Although she never thought that her \""century of the child\"" would become a reality, in fact it had much more resonance than she could have imagined.\n The idea of the child as a product of a protective and coddling society has given rise to major theories and arguments since Key's time. For the past half century, the study of the child has been dominated by two towering figures, the psychologist Jean Piaget and the historian Philippe Aris. Interest in the subject has been dri.