Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on The Status of Childhood
Childhood has changed greatly from when I grew up as a kid. Children today are now immersed in so much technology that it is changing the way they learn and interact with other children. Children are now as technologically advanced as most adults with their use of Blackberrys, Iphones, and other smart phones. Not only […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 1 Comment »
The construction of childhood is largely defined by the influences subjected to an individual. Today, influences such as media (TV and music), clothing, and sexuality have a bigger impact in the development of child than the role of parents. The definition of a child, according to http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/essays/childhood.htm is a non-adult, or an individual with a […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on The Status of Childhood Today
Today the status of childhood is dwindling down more and more. What we used to know as childhood, with time has been decreasing, its like the age of childhood is being skipped directly to Adolescence. Personally I feel as if the media is not necessarily responsible for creating this attitude rather they are responsible for […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on The Status of Childhood Today
Childhood today is not what it used to be decades ago. In those days, computers and new technologies were just becoming familiar to people and coming out. Cellular phones were just beginning to be popular. Children watched only several of hours of television and that mostly cartoons on weekday afternoons and on weekends. Video games […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on The Status of Childhood
Childhood in the 21st century is dwindling. Children have lost their essence of innocence. The main cause for this I believe is technology. Children are no longer shielded from the world, information isn’t filtered. From the time a child can read it can just look up anything it wants to know online. The internet has […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on Construction of Childhood and Adolescence
Postmans arguments about childhood disappearing are valid because of the change in the world. Today we live in a world that is flooded with all sorts of technology one can use to entertain and organize one’s life. Children aren’t restricted to this kind of technology, which creates a clear link for them to the adult […]
Posted in Extra Credit on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on Extra.C Asg.
I found something on the BBC news website it’s an article with excerpts of a Congolese student who describes the different path her life has taken now that she is able to go to school. The excerpts describe how she and her sister lost their parents at an early age, were taken in by strangers and […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on Assignment #1 – Current Status of Childhood
To some degree the future of childhood, in the writings of Postman, seem to be continuing a similar pattern to which he focuses his evidence, regarding the disappearance of childhood, from. Currently, the status of childhood, in my opinion, has changed a lot since my own personal experience with childhood. Not only are children […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off on The Status of Childhood
Childhood has changed dramatically since I was a child; and that was only about 13 years ago. Children today are quicker to grow up. We see examples of this in the way they dress, talk, play, their appearance. The concept of childhood changes as technology changes. A lot can be blamed for this transformation of […]
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