Literature Review: Incorporating Childhood Into the History of Education

Authors

  • Barbara Finkelstein

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v18i1.44014

Abstract

In 1962, when the translation of Phillipe Aries, Centuries of Childhood appeared and again in 1974 as Lloyd deMause's essay exploring the evolution of childhood emerged, the history of childhood and the history of education constituted two distinct and unrelated fields of inquiry. At that time, historians of education were in the process of reconstructing the very definition of their field. Some, like Lawrence A. Cremin, advanced a view that the history of education would best be understood if historians broadened their understanding of education to include the analysis of cultural transmission as it proceeded in families, churches, colleges, universities, mass media of communication, museums, libraries as well as schools.

Published

2018-05-16

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