Introduction to the Childhood Studies in Western Culture
Abstract
The article presents selected problems and reflections related to the category of a child and childhood. It also points to several changes which took place during the last centuries in the way chil- dren are perceived, and how their place changed in Western societies. These changes are crucial in how children and childhood are perceived today. The aims of the article are: first, to clarify the categories of child and childhood that relate to somewhat different areas of thought; second, to show several important factors that influenced the change in the perception of the role of the child, and how childhood was understood within society and culture, leading to the contemporary vision of childhood; third, to outline the contemporary image of a child and childhood, basing the outline on reflections appearing within interdisciplinary research on childhood, and finally to point out certain ways of presence and reconstruction of the image of child and childhood in the texts of culture.
Keywords:
childhood studies, child, cultural historyReferences
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Jadwiga Mostowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Lodz Poland
Doktor nauk humanistycznych, absolwentka kulturoznawstwa o specjalności filmoznawczej na UŁ. Autorka rozprawy doktorskiej poświęconej dziecięcym bohaterom fabularnych filmów polskich zrealizowanych po 1989 r.
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