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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 487-4
SPECIAL TOPICS: EDUCATION AND CHANGING CONCEPTS OF CHILDHOOD
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(CAT. #96531)
Regular Summer Semester, 1993
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Instructor: Dr. J. Dawson
(May 3 - July 30)
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Office: ?
MPX 8639
Tuesday, 1:00-4:50 p.m.
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Phone: ?
291-3476 (office)
Location: MPX 7610
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291-3395 (messages)
PREREQUISITES:
EDUC 4011402
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
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.
COURSE TOPICS:
1. Theoretical perspectices
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
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The Early Protestant Educators--The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John
Calvin and Others
d.
The Puritans and Literature for Children
e.
John Locke--"the father of the Enlightenment in educational thought."
3. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Concepts of Childhood and
Education
a.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Naturalism
b.
Evangelicalism and Childhood
c.
Romanticism and Childhood
d.
Children of the Industrial Revolution
4. Selected Concepts of Childhood and Education in the Twentieth
Century
a. The Loss of Innocence: Child Sexuality and Aggression--Sigmund Freud
b. The Well Socialized Child:
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Maria Montessori
ii.
John Dewey
iii.
Dr. Spock
c. The Free Child--A.S. Neil!
5. Children Without Childhood
a.
Children of Poverty
b. Children of War
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Discussion Topics
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Child Abuse
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Drug Abuse
iii.
The Changing Family
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COURSE ASSESSMEN
Written assignments, presentations, and class participation
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Aries, Phillipe. Centuries of Childhood. A Social Histor y
of Family Life. Translated by R.
Baldick. New York: Vintage Books, 1962.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Emile. Translated and edited by William Boyd. New York:
Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956.
Bagnell, Kenneth. The Little Immigrants. The Ornhans• Who Came to Canada. Toronto:
Macmillan, 1980.
