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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
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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.
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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.