Growing Up in a Changing Society

Name: Growing Up in a Changing Society
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Explores how the study of child development is inevitably bound up both in cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children, and in educational practices that arise from these ideas. There are additional contributions on social development in the classroom and playground. > The final reader in the Child Development in Social Context series shows how the study of child development is inevitably bound up in more ephemeral cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children and in the educational practices that rise from these ideas. Some readings point to the dangers which can arise from the meeting of science and cultural values, using for illustration studies of the role of psychological theory in reinforcing social attitudes to child care inside and outside the family. Other readings look at children's initiation into that relatively recent cultural invention, the school, and the relationship with their learning at home. There are studies of their social development in clr