Summary of early theories by MeLeesa Patten https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44 en-us 2018-01-12 21:49:54 UTC 2025-12-01 22:50:16 UTC hello@padlet.com Rousseau’s romantic naturalism maybpatten https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221144061

]]> 2018-01-12 21:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221144061 Locke’s Environmentalism maybpatten https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221144283 John Locke (1963-1704)

Children are children and not adults
NURTURE over nature
Children are empty cups that we as adults must fill them with values
Teaches by examples and life lessons
Goal is to be the BEST adult in the end
Praising and shaming kids as reward and punishment
Teachings based on life lessons
Do not spoil children

This theory goes off of life lessons. It allows kids to be kids but at the same time does not allow them to be spoiled. It explains how spoiling a child is like obtaining a bad habit, and is hard to break in the end. It says that if a child does well we should praise them and if they do bad we should make it evident the disappointment. The focus in this theory is growth and learning.

In this theory there are ways to teach children without demanding things. Instead of barking out rules, it shows how children learn more by being given examples from adult. Also, in this theory fear is something that is not accepted, instead it is again a learning opportunity where the child is able to view the fear and get a understanding to why he/she is scared. Overall this theory does hold a lot of responsibility on the adults because this is a "do as I do" theory and holds the adults responsible for make wise choices.]]> 2018-01-12 21:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221144283 Preformationism maybpatten https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221145786 French historian Philippe Aries (1941-1984)

View children as little adults
Children sent to villages (6/7)
Children treated as adults
Equals to adults
Could drink

 

With this theory children are seen as little adults. They dress, live, and are treated as such. During this time children were set to other villages to work and gain skills such as adults would. Children were only distinguished as children mainly by their size. Youth wore the same garments as adults, did the same things such as games and activities. During this time a lot of the that needed certain skills were filled by a mix of both children and adults. 

During the 1500s when the working work changed so did the look of family. More jobs started to present themselves, and with more job availability increased the family sizes because more were able to provide with then "white collared" jobs. In exchange parents being able to provide just fine, instead of needing children to work to help support were deciding to educate their children more and not sending 6/7 year olds to work, but to school. Even though this is true many children entered the work world as early as 12, but many stayed in school into their teens. 

]]> 2018-01-12 22:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221145786 Rousseau's Romantic Naturalism https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221219747 John Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778)
"The Father of Developmental Psychology."
"The savage lives in himself, the social man, always outside himself, knows how to live only in the opinion of others."
"His goal would not be to teach Emile the right answers but to help him learn to solve problems on his own."
"Let him not be taught science, let him discover it."

According to Rousseau and Locke's conclusions, children are different than adults.  He believed teaching children as nature intends.  Rousseau's childhood was not a good one, his father blamed him for his mother's death; his father fled Geneva to avoid imprisonment. 
He grew up and had five children but put them all up for adoption. Many people could not take his work seriously because he gave all his children away so how could he teach others how to raise them? Since Rousseau's childhood was not good, his view of people was altered. He did not trust the social environment to form a healthy individual. By socializing children, they would become dependent "on the options of others." Nature teaches people to think on their own and come up with their own conclusions without being dependent--in other words useless according to Rousseau. ]]> 2018-01-14 00:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maybpatten/vj2ovrwzwj44/wish/221219747