Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear

by Guldberg; Helene

• ISBN13: 9780415477239
• ISBN10: 0415477239
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-02-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce . . . or so we are told.

Author Biography

Helene Guldberg is co-founder and Director of Spiked, the first custom-built online current affairs publication in the UK. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in developmental psychology with the Open University and the US study abroad centres CAPA and IES.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The good, the bad, and the history: a balance sheet of modern childhood	p. 5
A childish panic about the next generation	p. 7
Cocooning children	p. 32
Childhood in historical perspective	p. 46
Freedom and child development	p. 57
Growing up: why risk-taking is good for kids	p. 59
Play: what is it good for?	p. 73
The bullying bandwagon	p. 92
Virtual lives? Media, brands and the Myspace generation	p. 111
Taking real responsibility: the role of adult society	p. 127
Let parents be parents: the myth of infant determinism	p. 129
Let teachers be teachers - not social workers and 'happiness counsellors'	p. 147
Let strangers be friends: how the 'stranger danger' panic is creating a hostile adult world	p. 161
Afterword	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 197
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