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5000 BCE
Ancient Egipt
Kagheim: theach your boy in a obedient man Merikara: childhood is for instruccion of trades Childrens were consider as them father's successors in royalty, into the lower social classes were considered as servants. -
1800 BCE
Ancient Greece
the child is considered as a draft adult, devoid of qualities to be a virtuous human being who has not character and with a big lack of will. -
509 BCE
Ancient Rome
child subject to the authority of the patriarch, alien to family and society -
476
Middle Age
It does not matter if the child lives or dies. Conception of servant not master property.
XI-XIII centuries : the Pope had authority over the education of children Humanism
prepare children to serve God
Providing education regardless of social class -
Oct 31, 1517
Modern Age
Reform: education as a means of social control
children were conceived as beings that need of protection
childhood as a concept of autonomy the childs were conceived as trying to educate future men, which means future citizens, husbands, parents. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
childhood as a period of innocence, before the child knew the dangers of society. Training from the senses, consciousness and intelligence. Children are able to learn. -
Contemporary Age late XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI centuries
establishing protecting children laws
Childhood: subject with feelings
need instruction
adaptive education to maturational level
Kindergarten appearance
women's access to education
child as a person
social subject
moral subject
subject with needs
cognitive development