Title
Empathic Childrearing and the Adult Construction of Childhood: A Psychohistorical Look
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1998
Journal / Book Title
Childhood
Abstract
The (re)construction of childhood which began in the early modern period in the West had as its primary movement a reformulation of the adult-child relation as one between very different beings. This separation, which resulted in the isolation of children from the everyday world of adults in schools and the nuclear family, is interpreted as a necessary hermeneutical moment in the adult-child relation, in which the realization of psychological difference represented a dialectical prelude to the subsequent rapprochement and dialog which deMause has characterized as the 'empathic child-rearing mode'.
DOI
10.1177/0907568298005001002
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Kennedy, David, "Empathic Childrearing and the Adult Construction of Childhood: A Psychohistorical Look" (1998). Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works. 55.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/educ-fdns-facpubs/55
Published Citation
Kennedy, D. (1998). Empathic childrearing and the adult construction of childhood: A psychohistorical look. Childhood, 5(1), 9-22.