Children And Adulthood
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- According to Paul Duncun, children are ahead of their years because they can now quickly and freely access information about sex and violence.
- The image of children and childhood was innocence, seemed to be pure and unmediated.
- Educators experience emotion because thy try to maintain that children are always happy, innocent learners and still know the unpleasant realities of children’s lives, such as child labor, children being abused physically, emotionally, and sexually.
- Children were regarded as happy and innocent, while childhood seemed to be the pure and unmediated state and time of learning.
- Childhood earlier was considered a time of happiness and learning, while the significance of modernist childhood seems to have disappeared and transformed.
- Modernist theory embodied the hope of childhood as an unlimited future and to have been transformed. In contrast, postmodernist has seen the modernist the future has been eroded and replaced by disorientation and disenchantment.
- & 8 The images consequently depict that aspect of growth that occurs at the childhood stage.
- Developmental theorists inform education about the ethical practices children should learn and prepare them for adulthood as well as identify the policies which promote and encourage children’s welfare.
- Adults would repress the childlike characters if they were denied in their childhood and during leisure time toto relief working pressure.
- Playfulness because `children like playing too much and as a teacher to be playful also will help to interact with them more appropriately.
Developmentalism more preferred. It gives the idea that children are seen moving to adulthood. Children are seen to undergo a process of maturation and eventually upgrade to adulthood.
- Freuds describes being adult means to be rational and a being who can solve their problems and be responsible. At the same time, childhood represents all that is vulnerable, inept, clumsy, primitive.
- In western society, children never work or play alongside adults. They have this own institution, clothes and also have different rights and responsibilities from adults.
- and 15 Childhood continues with social goodwill because they argue that although childhood as future hope can no longer be sustained, the child as nostalgia offers a sense of continuity with the past. A sense of continuity at least suggests a future.
17- 19 The ways to deal with children: it’s essential to see the real nature of children secondly, discuss with children on how they see themselves positioned and to discuss the extent to which they understand themselves, thirdly, it’s essential for teachers to extend beyond conventional art images of a consumer culture an mass communication media. Finally, art educators may adopt the role played by other people rather than being concerned with classroom instruction.
- Teachers should use mass media images, mostly those that show childhood as a good state.
Images depicting conception of childhood