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    Semester 96-2 Session: Regular
    EDUC 431 - 4 Concepts of Childhood in the History of
    Western Education
    (Formerly Education & Changing Concepts of Childhood)
    Section: D1.00
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    Scheduled Final Exam: No
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    Instructor: J
    .
    Dawson ?
    Office: 8639mpc
    Tel: 291-3476
    Fax: 291-3203
    E-mail: Janis_Dawson@sfu.ca
    PREREQUISITE
    60 hours of credit
    COURSE DESCRIPTION
    Topics:
    1. Theoretical Perspectives
    Twentieth century interpretations of the experience of childhood will be examined. Particular attention will be
    given to the works of Philippe Aries and Lloyd deMause.
    2. Early Concepts of Childhood and Education
    a)
    Late Roman and Medieval Concepts of Childhood
    b)
    The "Bele Babees"-- The Courtesy Tradition ?
    d) The Puritans and Literature for Children
    c)
    The Early Protestant Educators ? e) John Locke
    3. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Concepts of Childhood and Education
    a)
    Jean-Jacques
    Rousseau and Emile (1762) ?
    c) Romanticism and Childhood
    b)
    Evangelicalism and Childhood
    ?
    d) Children of the Industrial Revolution
    4. Selected Concepts of Childhood and Education in the Twentieth Century
    5. Children without Childhood
    OBJECTIVES
    This course will consist of a study of some of the origins of twentieth century concepts of childhood and their relationship
    to educational thought and practice in the Western world.
    REQUIREMENTS
    Course assessment will be based on written assignments, presentations, and class participation.
    READINGS
    REQ REC
    394-70286-7
    Aries, Philippe
    New York: Random,
    Centuries of Childhood. A Social
    1962
    History of Family Life
    x
    Boyd, W., trans. and ed.
    New York: Teacher's
    The Emile of Jean Jacques
    College Press,
    Rousseau
    Columbia University
    014-018276-4
    Gose,
    Edmund
    Penguin Books
    Father and Son
    0-345-36639-5
    DeSalvo, Louise
    New York:
    Virginia Woolf. The Impact of
    Ballantine, 1990
    Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her
    x
    Life and Work
    0-7736-7342-3
    Bagnell, Kenneth
    Toronto: General, 1980
    The Little Immigrants. The
    Orphans Who Came to Canada.
    0-06-097499-0
    Kozol, Jonathan
    New York: Harper
    Savage Inequalities
    Collins, 1992.
    X
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    Ed. 431 and Ed. 821 ?
    Course Outline and Readings
    I. The nature and value of philosophizing about teaching
    =
    Passmore 1,
    Chambers 1.
    II. Educating
    =
    C - 21.
    III. Socializing
    =
    Kazepides.
    IV.
    Indoctrinating
    =
    C - 2.2, K.
    V. Conditioning
    =
    Clark and K.
    VI. The Concept of learning
    =
    Komisar, C - 2.3.
    VII. The Concept of teaching
    =
    P - 2
    a)
    Developing capacities
    =
    P - 3.
    b)
    Teaching to acquire information
    =
    P - 4.
    c)
    Imparting information
    =
    P - 5,
    d)
    Information and capacities
    =
    P - 6.
    e)
    Cultivating habits
    =
    P - 7.
    f)
    Cultivating Imagination
    =
    P - 8.
    g)
    Teaching to be critical
    =
    P -
    9.
    h)
    Teaching to care and to be careful
    =
    P - 10.
    i) Teaching to understand
    =
    P - 11.
    VIII. The social dimensions of teaching
    a)
    Personal relations in teaching
    =
    C - 4.1
    b)
    Freedom and authority
    =
    C - 4.2
    c)
    Discipline and punishment
    =
    C - 4.4, K.
    d)
    Rights
    =
    C - 4.4.

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