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Age of Revolutions
Author_Emily C. Bruce
book history
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child autonomy in history
child-rearing history
childhood and self-formation
childhood as a social construct
childhood studies
childhood subjectivity in history
children and cultural change
children's diaries in history
children's literature
children's role in education history
construction of modern childhood
cultural history of childhood
early modern childhood identity
early modern educational theory
education and selfhood in history
eighteenth-century childhood studies
emotional education in history
Enlightenment
Enlightenment and childhood
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European educational reform
evolution of education systems
fairy tales
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German educational history
German Enlightenment education
German family history
Germany
historical childhood agency
historical childhood narratives
historical perspectives on parenting
history of affection in parenting
history of child discipline
history of child psychology
history of childhood
history of childhood agency
history of childhood development
history of children's reading habits
history of domestic education
history of education
history of educational innovations
history of emotional labor in education
history of family pedagogy
history of literacy in Europe
history of middle-class family life
history of pedagogy in Germany
history of reading
history of self-discipline in childhood
history of writing instruction
history of youth culture
intellectual history of education
letters by children in the 18th century
literacy and modernity
origins of modern childhood
print culture and childhood
private writing by children
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Product details
- ISBN 9781625345639
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 149 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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How did we come to imagine what 'ideal childhood' requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and as these innovations in ideology and educational practice spread from middle-class families across European society, childhood came to be seen as a life stage critical to self-formation. This new approach was in part a process that adults imposed on youth, one that hinged on motivating children's behavior through affection and cultivating internal discipline. But this is not just a story about parents' and pedagogues' efforts to shape childhood. Offering rare glimpses of young students' diaries, letters, and marginalia, Emily C. Bruce reveals how children themselves negotiated these changes.
Revolutions at Home analyzes a rich set of documents created for and by young Germans to show that children were central to reinventing their own education between 1770 and 1850. Through their reading and writing, they helped construct the modern child subject. The active child who emerged at this time was not simply a consequence of expanding literacy but, in fact, a key participant in defining modern life.
Revolutions at Home analyzes a rich set of documents created for and by young Germans to show that children were central to reinventing their own education between 1770 and 1850. Through their reading and writing, they helped construct the modern child subject. The active child who emerged at this time was not simply a consequence of expanding literacy but, in fact, a key participant in defining modern life.
Emily C. Bruce is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota Morris.
