Beyond the Century of the Child : : Cultural History and Developmental Psychology / / ed. by Willem Koops, Michael Zuckerman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Breeuwsma, Gerrit,; Calvert, Karin,; De Winter, Micha,; Gillis, John R.,; Hanawalt, Barbara A.,; Kloek, Els,; Kojima, Hideo,; Koops, Willem,; Nylan, Michael,; Stearns, Peter,; White, Sheldon H.,; Zuckerman, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Koops, Willem,; Zuckerman, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

In 1900, Ellen Key wrote the international bestseller The Century of the Child. In this enormously influential book, she proposed that the world's children should be the central work of society during the twentieth century. Although she never thought that her "century of the child" wo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Imaging Childhood
• The History of Childhood
• 2. The Child in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• 3. Early Modern Childhood in the Dutch Context
• 4. Patterns of Childrearing in America
• 5. The Birth of the Virtual Child: A Victorian Progeny
• 6. Historical Perspectives on Twentieth-Century American Childhood
• 7. The History of Children and Youth in japan
• 8. Childhood, Formal Education, and Ideology in China, Then and Now
• The Child in Developmental Psychology and Pedagogy
• 9. On Infantilization and Participation: Pedagogical Lessons from the Century of the Child
• 10. The Nephew of an Experimentalist: Ambivalences in Developmental Thinking
• 11. Developmental Psychology in a World of Designed Institutions
• Epilogue The Millennium of Childhood That Stretches Before Us
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index