Childhood Studies A New Field For The Advocacy Of Children

Joe Dawson Dawson 1 Professor Cook Childhood Studies April 13, 2011 The New Childhood Studies Childhood studies is a relatively new field for the advocacy of children that has developed to represent points of view that had been repressed. The authors, Allison James and Alan Prout, argue that the notion of childhood has become complicated over the past decade. The nature of childhood is socially constructed. Meaning, the childish nature of adolescents is developed and expressed in individual societies differently and these individual attitudes and beliefs combine to form a region specific model of childhood. James and Prout developed six central tenets, or principles, about how children should be understood. The first tenet proposes that childhood is socially constructed. This is to say that childhood differs over place and time but biologically all children are alike in that they are immature. 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