There are several words that came to my mind when thinking about how I view children. To me, I see children as adventurous, imaginative, curious, talkative, knowledgeable, creative, active, independent, loving, and much more. When I came up with those words as I thought about my nephews and niece and the interactions that I have had with them. As I was creating my artifact, I was thinking about those words and how I could put those words into something visual. The idea of having a child’s silhouette filled with different images came to my mind. Each image represents how I perceive children.
Pooh Bear represents a child’s love for being adventurous and trying new things. The book represents the knowledge that they have and receive
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I don’t think I have ever met a child who wasn’t loving. The hearts represent the love that children have for adults and for everything in their life. The art easel, rainbow, and background of color represent how children are creative and are able to come up with several different ideas on their own. Curious George represents two things in this picture. First, how children are always curious and getting into something new. Secondly, he represents how children see things differently than adults.
Children have been a part of all of our lives and at one point in time we were them. Not one child is the same, they each have their own personality and are uniquely designed. From Hill, Stremmel, and Fu (2005), “Children are a gift, not a possession; parenthood is a trust, not a right.” Children are made in different ways, which makes it so that our education systems need to be on their toes to be able to keep up with the changing ways of our children. With different needs that need to be met for children, over time a certain view of children has been accumulated.
Over time society has developed different views of children and how they should be seen. Going from generation to generation there are more differences when it comes to how we see children. In this generation, there are more stereotypes of boys and girls that are seen to be stressed. Boys are to wear blue and darker colors, play with dinosaurs, get dirty, and be tough. Girls are to wear pink
REFERENCESBook 1 Understanding Childhood,Chapter 1Block 1 Study Guide and Audio-Visual Notes, Unit 1Video 1 Band 3 "Representations of Childhood"
For a child to understand the world, he/she will understand that people have different beliefs, colour skin and religion, the world and technology. A child will also learn other children’s names, talk about family and friends. This has a huge impact on a child’s social development; they will have awareness of the world and the people around them, and therefore are able to confidently make new friends as they go through transitions such as moving schools. It is important that children and young people are given the opportunity to speak about themselves, their lives at home and also listen to others, and this gives them a perspective on the fact that everybody does different things, others’ lives differ to theirs and this is something that needs to be recognised and respected and not judged.
All children are different, either it is by the way they’re brought up, their culture, have different beliefs, and in the way they communicate for example; English is an additional language.
Since the seventeenth century, children have been given a voice in the family home; by letting them to make their own choices. Reference This has changed the nature of childhood dramatically, which can be seen a positive and negative effect. It has enabled children to be more independent with decision making which prepares children more for adulthood; this is what childhood is ‘supposed’ to do. On the other hand, it can put too much burden on the child, meaning they are being treated more like an adult rather than a child.
I feel children need guidance and support from the world around them. That is why they have parents, family and teachers. I believe, like Barbara Coloroso and others, that children are worth all the work teachers put into their job. Children are not only worth it, but they deserve our very best. Even the "troublesome" kid in the class, deserves to get an education and learn how to read so he/she can fill out a job application when he/she is eighteen. As adults, who have gone through most of our schooling, we owe
The date of my observation was April 27th, 2010. It was about 9:30 in the morning when I began my study. I went to Grossmont College’s Child Development Center. The first thing I began looking for was if the child-teacher ratio was correct. The child ratio was 2 teachers to about every 8 children. The ratio was good. As I entered there was one large room that almost looked as if it could be two rooms they way it was set up. One half consisted of a large bookshelf with numerous books on it with a couch in the front of it. The other half of the room was almost like a little kitchen. It had a table with chairs around it with a sink and cabinets behind it. There were “age appropriate” toys as well as books all over the
Most People have Heard comments of how the colored pink is for girls and blue is for boys. A large percentage of society is carried away by that and buy clothes or decorations according to those colors. Discrimination is based largely on stereotypes that have been generated around the idea of "what is the correct way in which a man or woman should act in society", and their roles at work or in their family. This set of preconceived ideas that we use to analyze and interact with other men and women, are gender stereotypes. The article “When Gender Norms Didn't Work for My Kid” written by Erika Kleinman gives us an insight about her personal experience with both of her daughters and how she managed not to get carried away by what society believes is the right appearance for a girl.
Childhood is not a biological state, unlike infancy (Postman) it is a construction placed upon a group of humans by society (James and Prout). Differing societies have different views of what a child is and should be. The ideas surrounding children and childhood not only differ within different societies there are also historical differences in the constructs of children (Postman) as if we look throughout history it is suggested that children are a modern day construct (Postman). Aries (1962) suggests that even as early as the late seventeeth century, when
Babies and children are possibly the cutest and loveliest being on earth. Till date, if a four-year-old shoots you with a toy gun, you play dead. Or if they hand you a toy handphone, you answer it. How many of you have seen a baby so cute that you forget all your worries and just blow raspberries at it? A child is one of the very few things that can compel a grown adult to want to relive his childhood again.
Ever since I was little I grew up watching Tim Burton’s movies and he was an inspiration because he thought outside the norm. I also picked this artist because in his video he explained as a child we are all influenced by our upbringing and how we feel; whether it was the feeling of isolation or being inside our own head. Burton also stated in the video how he viewed fairytales as frightening and abstract stories that children can relate to and to the abstract of life. Therefore, he explained these fantasies help children view and deal with something they don’t understand and is crucial to childhood. My drawing is a response to this idea he had; my childhood fantasy was one that I thought a monster lived under my bed at night and my stuffed animals were like guardian angels that would protect me from this monster at night. This fantasy allowed me to cope with being alone at night and understand why I always felt scared at night. Burton overall influenced me to create this piece because I understood what he meant when children revert to fantasies to understand the world and what things mean when they are over there head. I created this piece because as a child I was always fearful of what I could not understand; therefore, my mind would always picture monsters as the reasons why I was scared rather than the true
Eeyore, the continually miserable gray donkey, never finds real happiness in his life because he is constantly thinking of the worst that can happen or is trying to give himself credit for something good that has happened only to be let down when the credit is given to someone else, like Pooh. A perfect example of this is when a party is thrown in honor of Pooh for his bravery and assistance in saving Roo from drowning, saving Piglet from being surrounded by water in his own house, and finding the North Pole. Eeyore believes that the party is for him because he thinks that he is the one who had saved Roo and starts to give a speech. All of a sudden he is let down by Christopher Robin who gives the present to
Subconsciously, these stereotypes start right from the moment we are born. If a girl is born to a family, she is dressed in pink, but if a boy is born, he is dressed in blue. This shows that already from such a young age, parents are differentiating between their sons and their daughters. Parents also have different
Now connect to this kid and make this vision highly vivid in your mind, feel the happiness of that kid and place yourself in his mind’s eye. What playful moments do you see? How does it feel?
The tale takes place in an Italian village, initially in Geppetto’s workshop which is full of wooden gadgets and chiming clocks, yet he does not know what time it is. The gentle woodcarver is wishing upon a star for the puppet to come to life and to be his son. The Blue Fairy brings the toy to life out of compassion for Geppetto who is a good man, but is lonely and wanting someone to love. The puppet named, Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish (The Walt Disney Company, 1992). It is not an easy world for the puppet. He must learn what it means to be a good person, including: going to school, working hard, making friends and putting others’ needs before his own. In the end, after learning some important life lessons, Pinocchio is transformed from the wooden puppet into the real boy Geppetto has always wanted (The Walt Disney Company, 1992).
“A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things you think are important. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they are carried out depends on him. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities and corporations. The fate of humanity is in his hands”