How influential were Rousseau’s views on childhood, parenting, and education and to what extent were they challenged by alternative discourses on childhood?Explain

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How influential were Rousseau’s views on childhood, parenting, and education and to what extent were they challenged by alternative discourses on childhood?

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The Early-nineteenth century Child: romantics and evangelicals

Philosophies of the child (Rousseauan, Romantic, Puritan and Evangelical), which informed attitudes to education and childhood in the early nineteenth century and the development of these discourses in the romantic period and it’s connection to art, literature and music.

Key Readings:

Heywood, C. (2018) A history of childhood: children and childhood in the West from medieval to modern times, 2nd Ed., Cambridge: Polity –

Chapter 2: The Quest for a Turning Point and

Chapter 3: Some Themes in the Cultural History of Childhood

Wolff, L. (2012) Childhood and the Enlightenment: The complications of innocence, in Fass, P. (ed.) The Routledge history of childhood in the western world, Routledge: London

Extracts from Hannah More (founder of the Sunday school movement); Maria Edgeworth (from Practical Education), William Wordsworth (from ‘The Prelude’) and William Blake (from ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’).

How influential were Roussea’s views on child parents in education and to  what extent were they challenged?

First of all say what his views were.

Outline and explain what Rousseau said

What were his core ideas, connections to nature?

The idea of preserving childhood innocence, he said that children shouldn’t read adult creative books until they’re about seven.

Not because it’s going to be damaging to them or they’re not capable, but because It introduces the adult world to them and that should be their world for now.

– Identify his ideas.

– Comment on the fact that his ideas hold significant legacy.

The idea, dear childhood innocence still lives with us today.

It’s a dominant discourse that we use to talk about and understand childhood now in 2022.

There’s a legacy to those ideas that makes them perhaps long lasting and very influential.

2nd part of the question

Rousseau Ideas were challenged, of course by the other discourse that existed before and after him.

Think about

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) PURITAN

John Locke (1632-1704) TABULA RASA

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ROMANTIC

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