Childhood

Historical and social change in the concept of childhood

  • Period: 500 BCE to 301

    Infantice

    Some facts are more important than others, and when parents routinely resolved their anxieties about taking care of children by killing them, it affected the surviving children profoundly. For those who were allowed to grow up, the projective reaction was paramount, and the concreteness of reversal was evident in the widespread sodomizing of the child.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 500

    School in Rome

    The school in Antigua Roma is divided into three stages: "Ludus" or elemental school (7 to 12 years), "Gramatica" (12 to 16 years) prose, theater and poetry and "Retorica" (from 16 years) technical oratory studies.
  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristoteles writings

    Aristoteles, in many of his writings expresses his interest in educational problems, in order to contribute to the formation of free men.
  • 300 BCE

    Concept of liberal education was born

  • 1 CE

    Infanticide

    Infanticide
    Infanticide as murder.However during the middle ages was still practiced
  • Period: 301 to 1300

    Abandoning

    Once parents began to accept the child as having a soul, the only way they could escape the dangers of their own projections was by abandonment, whether to the wet nurse, to the monastery or nunnery, or by severe emotional abandonment at home.
    Among the most common forms of abandonment were sending their children as servants, sending them to another family to be educated, sold, turned into police hostages and exchanged for pledges or paying debts.
  • 354

    Christianity

    Christianity
    Children are considered as defenseless and dependent. During the fifteenth century in the conception of childhood it is observed how "children are bad by birth".
  • Period: 501 to

    Church in charge of education

    the most important institution in charge of education
  • 1000

    Child as an object

    The church decrees that a child can not be sold after 7 years.
  • Period: 1301 to

    Ambivalence

    Defined as an original sin, according to which children are born rebellious, ambivalence is a state of having conflicting feelings towards a person or object. Ambivalent behavior may be linked to a mental disorder such as schizophrenia or psychosis, although it is also associated with certain states accepted as normal, such as jealousy.
  • 1500

    Child as an angel

    Child as an angel
    The child possesses innate goodness, he is seen as a "small adult"
  • 1530

    Erasmo De Róterdam

    Erasmo De Róterdam
    Erasmo shows a certain interest in the childlike nature.
  • Period: to

    Intrusive parents

    Reduction in projection. Parent-child relations appeare.The parents approached even closer and attempted to conquer its mind, in order to control its insides, its anger, its needs, its masturbation, its very will.
  • Period: to

    Socialization

    The raising of a child became less a process of conquering its will than of training it, guiding it into proper paths, teaching it to conform. It is understood that the closeness of the mother is essential for the life of a child. Darwing made contributions to the development of psychology. In Piaget's theory, it was considered that the effort to understand that children go through specific stages as their intellect and ability to perceive relationships mature.
  • Development of the childhood

    Development of the childhood
    It is understood the importance of the development of the childhood for a good future maturity. In this part of history is meant the importance of education in the development of the child. Now it is important the participation of both parents, they create methods of conflict resolution, help in their needs for a correct evolution of the infant
  • Period: to

    Helping

    The child knows better than the parent what it needs at each stage of its life, and fully involves both parents in the child’s life as they work to empathize with and fulfill its expanding and particular needs. There is no attempt at all to discipline or form “habits.”
  • International convention of human rights

    International convention of human rights
    The International Convention on Human Rights, defines the child as a subject of law, recognizing in childhood the status of person and citizen.
  • World Conference on Education for All

    World Conference on Education for All
    Delegates from 155 countries agreed.to make education Access to all children and massively reduce illiteracy by the end of the decade. Delegates adopted the World Declaration on Education for All, which reaffirms that education is a fundamental human rights.
  • Childs rights prevail

    Childs rights prevail
    Political Constitution of 1991 states that the rights of the child must prevail over others This article seeks to recognize the fundamental rights of children, the obligation of the state, society and the family.