| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-338) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Children -- History.
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Children. |
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History. |
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Child development -- History.
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Child development. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Turmel, André, 1945- Historical sociology of childhood. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 0521879779 9780521879774 (DLC) 2008015651 (OCoLC)221147445 |
| ISBN |
9780511489099 (electronic book) |
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0511489099 (electronic book) |
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9780511424137 (electronic book) |
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0511424132 (electronic book) |
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9780511422485 |
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0511422482 |
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0521879779 (hardback) |
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9780521879774 (hardback) |
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0521705630 (paperback) |
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9780521705639 (paperback) |
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