Childhood, Culture and Education

Pre-requisites: enrolled master studies

Course objectives: Understanding the relations and interdependence of culture, recognised as a system of meanings, education as a mediator of culture and childhood as a concept and a practice of growing up. Development of critical relations towards the student’s understanding of the childhood in today’s conditions.

Course description: Childhood as a cultural-historical creation. Concepts and approaches. Historical, sociological, ethnographic-anthropological, psychological, literary and laic view on childhood. Modern and postmodern understanding of childhood. Shaping childhood in traditional and modern societal context. Understanding the child and childhood as a starting point for teaching concepts and practices of education of young children. Child and culture: different understanding of the concept of culture. Cultures as the systems of meaning. ECEC Center/School seen as a culture and as an educational culture. Intertextuality – how do we „read“ the culture and how do we integrate ourselves into the culture – Intersubjectivity and culture of peer learning. Children’s culture as a product and as a process.

Learning Outcomes: The student is familiar with the different concepts of childhood and understands the phenomenon of childhood. The student understands the childhood as a product of culture. Student is familiar and understand ways in which the socio-cultural context shaping understanding of the childhood and education child

Literature/Reading:

• Arijes, F., (1989) Vekovi detinjstva, Beograd, ZUNS, str.176-185, 210-218
• Bruner, J. (2000) Kultura obrazovanja, Zagreb:Edusa, str. 139-157.
• Valsiner, J. & Rosa, A. (Eds.) (2007). The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (odabrani delovi)
• Kon, I. S., (1991) Dete i kultura, Beograd, ZUNS, str. 37-74
• Miškeljin, L. (2010) Narativni konstrukt slike o detetu u predškolskom programu, Beograd: Nastava i vaspitanje, br. 1, str. 130-144
• Miškeljin, L. (2012) Dečji vrtić kao kulturni artefakt – vrtić iz socio-kulturne perspektive, Kikinda: Zbornik radova Visoke škole strukovnih studija za obrazovanje vaspitača, godina VII broj 2, str. 11-27
• Prout, A. and James, A. (eds.), (1990) «A New Paradigm for the Sociology of Childhood - Promise and Problems», u: Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Childhood, the Falmer Press, London, str. 7-32
• Slunjski, E. (2009.) Postizanje odgojno-obrazovne prakse vrtića usklađene s prirodom djeteta i odraslog, Život i škola, br. 22 , god. 55., str. 104.- 115.
• Tomanović, S. (ed.), (2004) Sociologija detinjstva – sociološka hrestomatija, Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, str. 51-165, 243-296
• Trebješanin, Ž., (1991) Predstava o detetu u srpskoj kulturi, Beograd, Srpska književna zadruga, str. 275-316