The Future of Childhood Prout, A.

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Alan joined WIE as Professor of Sociology and Childhood Studies in 2005. He has researched and taught at a number of UK universities, including Cambridge, Keele and Sirling. He was also Visitng Professor at Roskilde University. He was Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Research Programme "Children 5-16". This large research initiative looked at contemporary childhood in Britain through twenty-two different projects. He was editor of the FalmerRoutledge book series "The Future of Childhood", as well as author of a book of the same name.

SOCIOLOGY, ANTHORPOLOGY, HISTORY ,NATURAL SCIENCES

The social study of childhood.Childhood and social theory. Children's Participation. Children's Services; Childhood and socio-technical relations; Health Education; Children's everyday lives

E-play: Young Children Learning with Technology at Home., ESRC, Project Start Date: 01/01/2008 Project End Date: 30/06/2011

E-Play: Amendment to Contract, ESRC, Project Start Date: 01/01/2008 Project End Date: 30/06/2011

Prout, A (2008) 'Culture-nature and the construction of childhood' in The International handbook of Children, Media and Culture, Editors: Drotner, K and Livingstone, S, London: Sage

Prout, A (2008) 'Participation, policy and changing conditions of childhood' in Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities: the remaking of educatio for a cosmopolitan society, Editors: Lingard, B., Nixon, J and Ranson, S, London: Continuum Press

Prout, A (2006) Children, Young People and Social Inclusion Editors: Prout, A, Tisdall, K, Hill, M, Davies, J (978-1861346629) Bristol: Policy Press

Prout, A (2006) 'Conclusion: social inclusion, the welfare state and understanding children's participation' in Children, Young People and Social Inclusion, Editors: Tisdall, K., Davis, J., Hill, M and Prout, A, Bristol: Policy Press Prout, A (2005) The Future of Childhood: Towards the Interdisciplinary Study of Children (0415256755) London: Falmer Press

: the interdisciplinary study of children (childhood)

Assumption, proposition, argumentsChildhood is heterogeneous & complex

19th 20th Nature/culture dichotomy ()/() (material artifacts and technologies) ()

OutlineChanging childhood in a globalizing world

Childhood studies and the modern mentality

The dualities of the socialChildhood, nature and culture

The future of childhood

Chap. 1: Changing childhood in a globalizing worldIntroduction

Childhood & Modernity

Childhood representationsImages of global childhoodThe disappearance of childhood

Globalization and childhoodEconomic globalizationThe gradients of childhood inequality Childhood poverty in the rich countriesThe family in late modernityDemographic trends in childhoodTransnational migration

Childhood and cultural globalizationChildhood and individualization Childrens rightsRegulating children

Chap.1: conclusionchildhoodCrisis of representationChildhood & adulthood () (not a stable entity) ()(destablized)

(is caught up in patterns of change)

()

(materials)

overall pattern

Chap.2

Chap. 2: Childhood studies and the modern mentalityIntroductionThe modern mentality Culture & naturePurification and mediationHistory of childhood studiesDarwin and the Child Study movementPediatric medicineChild psychologyThe rise of socialSocial constructionism

1920--- the emergence of childhood

Particular form of childhoodWhich is separated from adulthoodConcept of childrenInnocenceDependentVulnerableGenerally incompetentIn need of protection and discipline

Childhood is Private sphereSchool attendanceRemoval of children from paid work --

Modernity is the search for order, purity, and the drive to exclude ambivalenceBinary thinkingTwo mutual-exclusive kinds of entityFeature of Post-Enlightenment thinking

Nature vs. CultureBoyle vs. HobbesModernism consists of double set of practicesNeeds teo kinds of intellectual works to hybridize themwork of mediationWork of purificationLatour poses a stark and radical alternative

Only when we pay attention to both the work of mediating nature and culture and purifying

Child study movementChild as a natural primitiveChildren as a concern of nation (a bio-political concern)Compulsory educationChild psychology the 2nd emerging discipline in 20th centuryDefiningnormal

Criticism to Child Psychology--Late 20th centuryBrofenbrennerVygotskyChildhood as a variable and changing entitySocial and culture are importantThe methodologyadditive Gesell, Behaviorism, Piaget

Social constructionism1990Sociological hermeneuticsPost-structuralist liguisticsSocial action and interaction are meaningfulSocial life has hermeneutic propertiesInterpretated or read like a textMeaning Is not generated by referents outside the texts but by the structure of relationships between the terms and the textThe more nuts and boltsthe more it bacomes apparent

Not the mirror images of the realDifferent representation of the same thing can be produced, reflecting different points of view and social interests

We regard childhood as constructed through its telling, there can only be stories and storytellers of childhood---Stainton-Rogers & Stainton-Rogers, 1992)

chap 2: conclusionChildhood as a heterogeneous assemblySocialTechnologicalBiological anImpureentitymethodology

Chap 3: The dualities of the socialIntroductionThe sociology of childhoodModernist sociologyThe dichotomies of childhood sociologyStructure and agencyIndividual and societyBeing and becoming

Strategies towards an included middleResources for an included middleActor-network theoryComplexity and non-linear systemsGenerational relationsLife courses and heterogeneous becoming

Chap 4: Childhood, nature and cultureIntroductionScience and societyThe legacy of the sociobiology episodeContemporary social biologyThe evolution of juvenility in animal speciesPrimates and humansPrimate juvenilityThe body, childhood and societyBio-technical-social translation

Chap 5: The future of childhoodIntroductionChildren & mundane artifactsInformation & communication technologies ()Reproductive technology ()Children & psychopharmaceuticals

Chap 5: Introduction() ()

Plane of immanence plane of organization (school family) (Deleuze & Guattari) --------transform

Chap 5: conclusion

Created by their interweaving Create new assemblages, possibilities, problemsIn a non-teleological processes

A new boundary being negotiatedDestabilized the boundary between public and privatebetween adults and childrenDestabilized the natural order of the generations()-

Chap 5: conclusionReconceptulization of childhood(unitary)

gradients

ChildrenChildhood

&

The sociology of childhood CorsaroThe culture nature of human development Rogoff, B. (2003),

Beyond the quality of early childhood education