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300 BCE
Greek: Education of free men for the future
-In antiquity, children began to be valued as citizens of the future, so their incorporation into the educational world became important. That is why they were subjected to informal occupations that would later become a formal intrusion into the world of education. -The infanticide and abuse of children was a normal practice. -
801
Rome: Man on a smaller scale
Childhood did not exist or was portrayed. Children were mixed with adult life.
All children except royalty were servants either to their own household or to others.
The murder of legitimate children was slowly reduced but the murder of illegitimate children continued.
To grow up in Rome was to undergo successive sexual -
1401
Cristianism: "Only time can heal from childhood, and from its imperfections."
Childhood in the Middle Ages was unimportant, children were seen as sinful beings full of evil and therefore adults did not show the slightest interest in their physical and mental development. -
1420
Renaissance: New interest in child development
Efforts to control child abuse began in the 17th century. -
1530
Erasmus
He expressed interest in the nature of children -
John Locke: Tabula Rasa
A child is born neither good nor bad, what he/she does in the future will depend on the experiences he/she lives. -
Industrial Revolution
With the investment of the factories, the use of child labor decreases drastically. Children begin to have more leisure spaces of their own and begin to consolidate their role in society.
There is also a closer relationship between parents and children. -
Rousseau: The child is naturally good
The child is a good being and will remain so unless society perverts his or her intentions. -
kant and childhood
It states that from infancy the child should be allowed to behave freely in all areas,
except in those areas in which it may harm itself, provided that it does not thereby interfere with the freedom of others.
of others.
In addition, parents should educate them not only to focus on adapting to the world but also to be able to improve it. -
Role of fathers in parenting
In the 19th century also, the father for the first time begins to take more than an occasional interest in the child, training him and sometimes even relieving the mother of childcare duties. -
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19th Century
-Childhood and infancy is the object of study of a specialized knowledge that became known as psychopedagogy. Childhood is no longer just a family matter but a matter for the state, which helps with experts.
-Figures were no longer used to terrorize children.
Informal child abandonment decreased -
Early 20th century
Childhood is understood on the basis that the child knows better than the parent what he/she needs at each stage of his/her life.
There is no attempt to discipline or form "habits." Helping a young child achieve his daily goals means continually responding to him, playing with him, being his servant rather than the other way around, interpreting his emotional conflicts, and providing objects specific to his evolving interests. -
Freud's conception
According to the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, children go through a series of psychosexual stages that lead to the development of the adult personality. His theory described how personality developed over the course of childhood. -
UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is the United Nations agency focused on promoting the rights and well-being of all children and adolescents in Mexico and around the world. It was created to provide urgent assistance to child victims of war. -
Child protection
The United Nations General Assembly promulgates the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, a commitment, among all UN member countries, to ensure the protection of children. -
"Every child, has every right."
World leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood. It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world. -
The State of the World's Children
Childhood, which means much more than the time between birth and adulthood, refers to the state and condition of a child's life: to the quality of those years. A child kidnapped by a paramilitary group and forced to carry weapons or submit to sexual slavery cannot enjoy his childhood, nor can a child who has to work hard in a sewing shop in the capital, far from his family and his home community. -
Alliance for Colombian Children
The concept of childhood that frames this work is based on the conception of the child as a subject of rights, which has legal, legal, normative, ethical and political implications for the relationships and interactions of children with their socialization and development environments and political implications for the interactions of children with their socialization and development environments of relationships, with the capacity to participate, and with their own culture. -
Childhood nowadays
Today, as we are aware of the complexity and factors involved in the concept of childhood, but it is generally recognized that children (human beings under 18 years of age) are individuals entitled to full physical, mental and social development, and with the right to freely express their opinions.
freely express their opinions. In addition
The Convention is also a model for the health, survival and progress of all human society. of all human society.