Reconceptualising Children, Childhood, and Identity

Reconceptualising children,childhood,and identity
Reconceptualising children, childhood, and identity
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Reconceptualising children,childhood,and identity
Introduction
Gender identity.Different research study asses psychological gender of children both with
continuous biological sex markers assigned to the male or female category. It suggests that
child's sex of rearing environment is the key predictor of gender identity and cannot be simply
changed after the age of two years and a half (Woodrow 2008). Females are assigned feminine
identity during birth due to an exhibition of female gender roles and early childhood feminity
and appearing visible external genital while the male adopted their identity during adolescence.
Various theorist acknowledges that biological nature affects the gender identity process. After
early childhood gender identity contains several proposed models such as gender labeling,
constancy, puberty and reproductive adulthood gender.
Ethnicity
This involves distinction that is based entirely on national origin, religion and other
cultural dynasties/Some conceptual clarification in the developmental literature review is
contained regarding racial and ethnic identities measure consecutively in children lives. Based on
children some study assesses children in terms of race awareness, ethnic esteem and identity and
also personal self-concept. Ethic components include self-identification in children, ethnic
knowledge, identity, role behaviors and children ethnic preferences. This is characterized by
focusing on ethnic identities of nonwhite children to be understood in their own personal terms.
In school group settings, white children responses are treated as a standard level from which non-
whites children responses deviate (Woodrow 2008).
Class identity

Reconceptualising children,childhood,and identity
Children from working class better backgrounds often negotiate their existing marginal
status at major elite academic institutions. Gender identity studies exclude ethnic minorities for
those children who are not middle class.
Religion
Some of the religious rituals occur when children acquire the age of reason and
voluntarily upholds religion. Children always get religious views from their parents but at the
same time might be influenced by others to interact religiously with another third party such as
friends and teachers. (Mitchell & Haynes 2009). Religious aspects regarding children comprise
of different rites of passages, education services offered, children psychological approaches and
the moral values of religious education in children lives. Religion originated outside India
regions and therefore it is likely that they might have influenced religion mental concepts of
childhood development. For instance, children's conception, social and psychological growth,
education facilities, family settings, voice s and rights of children in the environmental religion
concepts in India have changed over time.
Social environment and its effects on children development
For several years the community has understood the significant implications on an
individual environment based on their health. This has resulted to many health enhancement
interventions that take in account on the improvement of society. An individual's social
environment setting, for example, social relationships makes an impact on the quality of
parenting which in turn affects a child development and anticipated achievements in future

Reconceptualising children,childhood,and identity
(Larsen et al 2009). Various inclusive social environments offer support to parents in order to
provide parents capacity to care for the children thus contributing to the promotion of better
children development. They also have a positive effect on family system setting who are well-
interconnected offering supportive measures to ensure children's development.
Social environments involve a person's physical surrounding. available societal resources and
social relationships.
Physical environment
The physical environment includes housing, healthcare, education facilities and
recreation centers. Its surrounding nature includes the available open space and quality of
buildings that affect the quality of parenting thus influencing the wellbeing of children in such an
environment.
The significance of social environment
A child's environment is massively determined by the places their parents reside and take
them study in educational institutions (Van Cauwenberg 2011). In this case,it indicates who
children make close relationships with the quality of highsocialnessof children that are within the
family backround. Therefore, the parent's decisions about where to live, workplaces, education
institutions can influence the health and children development
Physical surroundings
A person's physical surroundings usually influence their health conditions.For instance,
environments made up of spacious and decent housing have low poverty and high stability in
residential areas (Woodrow 2008). These affect a child's social relationship and healthy