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300 BCE
Education of free man
In Greek, children started to be more valued for futuristic occasions so they began to have certain occupations but they were informal so later they can be integrated. Even though, abuse to children was normalized. -
400
ABANDONMENT, SWADDLING AND NURSING
children are abandoned at a very early age by their mothers, they were sold, used as political hostages, as a way to pay debts or given away giving excuses such as the need to teaching them to speak in a more appropriate way. Mothers didn't want feed their children and therefore the babies had to be fed with other types of milk or previously chewed food because of this reason, -
400
CHILD ABUSE
children were sexually abused, as it was believed that having intimate relations between adults and children would make the children acquire knowledge -
800
CHILD AS A MINIATURE ADULT
The child was taken as a miniature adult who represented the reincarnation of his ancestors and who with actions was in charge of taking care of those around him when necessary by taking different representations. -
1400
RENAISSANCE
Many of the classic ideas about early childhood education resurface. There is a boom in observations of children that reveal a new interest in children. -
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The industrial revolution represent a massive change in the role of the children. This happen because with the development of new machines and factories the child role in doing physical labor changed into something new. -
ROUSSEAU
Émile ou de l´éducation (1762) contains a series of basic principles on how to educate children, and it becomes a very fashionable book in French high society. Among his most influential and well-known ideas is that the child is good by nature. -
19TH CENTURY
in the early 19th century when children worked in textile factories they often worked for more than 12 hours a day.
Families were much larger than today. That was partly because infant mortality was high. People had many children and accepted that not all of them would survive. -
Law banned children under 10 from working underground.
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MANDATORY SCHOOL
For children from 5 to 10 year old and it was private -
WORLD WAR I
Children were particularly impacted by the war through disruption to home life and to schooling, absent parents, and deaths of family and family friends. -
JUVENILES ON TRIAL
Decreased in parental supervision was already causing anxiety about moral development. With most children attending school at least until sixteen, age-based grade levels defined stages of maturation. The law responded to the perceived threat of the “juvenile delinquent” by following education to expand the chronological definition of childhood according to age-based levels. -
EXPRESSION OF CHILDREN
Parents and educators encouraged children to express their own individuality through creative play. At the same time, mechanization, improved in wartime, made toy production inventive, plentiful, and profitable. -
UNICEF
The United Nations General Assembly creates the International Emergency Fund for Children, UNICEF, focused on children around the world. -
FREUD
Freud emphasized the importance of early childhood experiences in shaping our personality and behavior.
Psychosexual development is a central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory. -
NOWADAYS
In modern society childhood is seen as a particular period of life that human beings have to undergo. It is separate from the other periods of life and Children should be raised to be ready to face the world when they grow up.