Students can understand the social determination of childhood on the basis of factual and conceptual knowledge an getting familiar with breaks and continuities within the history of childhood.

The lecture will deal with the history of childhood in its dependence on gender order, the developments of the gender-specific division of labour, and patriarchal traditions in European history – such as: changes of gender order and its influences on the conceptions of childhood  due to industrialisation; the history of militarisation of the ideals of masculinity and the acceptance of drills as educational instruments; growing mortalilty rates of infants and children and the medicalisation of childhood as one of the consequences; the model of Hausfrau changing to that of the working mother; developments of declining birth rates resulting in changes both of children’s everyday life and the social construction of childhood.

lecture

oral examination

Gebhardt, Miriam/Wischermann, Clemens (Hg.): Familiensozialisation seit 1933 – Verhandlungen über Kontinuität. Stuttgart 2007. Gebhardt, Miriam: Die Angst vor dem kindlichen Tyrannen. Eine Geschichte der Erziehung im 20. Jahrhundert. München 2009. Rolff, Hans-Günter/Zimmermann, Peter: Kindheit im Wandel. Weinheim – Basel 1985

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