The Digital Child: The Evolution of Inwardness in the Histories of Childhood

ISBN-13: 9781412865371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 276 str.

Daniel Dervin

Opis

Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop. But with all this external stimulation, has childhood development been helped or hindered?

Spis treści

Prologue: Where Have All the Children Gone? Introduction: Writing Childhood and the Seven Stages of the Child 1.Childhood and Its Perennial Discontents: Digital Child Introduced 2. How Parenting and Group-Fantasies May Impinge on Inwardness 3. The Prehistory of Parenting and the Dawn of Inwardness:Tribal Child 4: A New Inwardness in the Classical World:Pedagogical Child 5: Suffer the Children: Ownership of the Faith Child 6. Saving the Faith Child: Ecclesiastical Interventions 7. Childhood Inside Art's Looking Glass 8. The Humanist Child Peers out from Renaissance Madonnas 9. The Rational Child and the Democratizing of Inwardness 10. Themes and Variations: Childrearing in Central and Eastern Europe 11. Conflicted Inwardness from Blood-Milk Equations 12. Inwardness Coexisting in the Citizen Child and the Digital Child Appendix: Saving Boys in/from the Church: A Personal Odyssey Selected Bibliography

O autorze

Daniel Dervin is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of several books and continues to publish in applied psychoanalysis and psychohistory.