| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations |
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Children in the collective -- Graphs, charts and tabulations : the textual inscription of children -- Social technologies: regulation and resistance -- The normal child : translation and circulation -- Developmental thinking as a cognitive form |
| Summary |
What constitutes a 'normal' child? Throughout the nineteenth century public health and paediatrics played a leading role in the image and conception of children. By the twentieth century psychology had moved to the forefront, transforming our thinking and understanding. Andre Turmel investigates these transformations both from the perspective of the scientific observation of children (public hygiene, paediatrics, psychology and education) and from a public policy standpoint (child welfare, health policy, education and compulsory schooling). Using detailed historical accounts from Britain, the USA and France, Turmel studies how historical sequential development and statistical reasoning have led to a concept of what constitutes a 'normal' child and resulted in a form of standardization by which we monitor children. He shows how western society has become a child-centred culture and asks whether we continue to base parenting and teaching on a view of children that is no longer appropriate |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-338) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Children -- History
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Child development -- History
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Child development.
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Children -- History -- 19th century
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Children -- History -- 20th century
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Children -- Sociological aspects
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Child development -- History -- 19th century
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Child development -- History -- 20th century
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Child Development
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Sociology -- history
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Child Development.
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Children -- Sociological aspects
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Child development
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Children
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Historische Soziologie
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Kind
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Sozialisation
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Psychosoziale Entwicklung
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Normalität Motiv
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Kategorisierung
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Standardisierung
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511489099 |
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0511489099 |
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9780511424137 |
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0511424132 |
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9780511422485 |
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0511422482 |
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1107184002 |
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9781107184008 |
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1281775657 |
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9781281775658 |
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9786611775650 |
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661177565X |
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0511423659 |
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9780511423659 |
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0511421826 |
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9780511421822 |
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0511423144 |
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9780511423147 |
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