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Early Childhood Australia Report

   

Added on  2020-04-15

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Running head: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF EARLY CHILDHOODThree issues of early childhoodName of the student:Name of the university:Author note

1HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF EARLY CHILDHOODThe pre-school stage is considered as the early childhood in Australia. Thefuture credibility of student has been seeded in this stage and therefore, proper care is needed.Certain issues have been generated in this stage regarding future development feasibility. Astrong and rich program has to be adopted in this stage and certain standards of quality arerequired to be maintained in this stage. Many issues are there to represent the development ofthe early childhood criteria of whom three have been identified in this case. The issues can becategorised as construction of childhood, well being movement and early childhood andethics in early childhood (McLean, Sandall & Smith, 2016). The first issue is based on the childhood construction. The period of childhoodis regarded as time of freedom where there is no fear of harsh experience of life. However,experts are opined that proper care is needed in this stage; else, the future leadership ability ofthe child will be shadowed. Montgomery has stated that the nurturing of a child depends onthe circumstances and the family well-being. April Mackay has pointed out some stagesregarding the child development construction and changes (Mackay et al., 2014). The first stage highlighted by Mackay is from middle age era where thechildren have to face same punishment as adults and they have to work as cheap labour. Thesecond stage is being considered as Victorian era where the child was divided into twoclasses such wealthy class and starving class. Society did not interfere in the well-being of thechild rather neglect the starving class’ child as “spoilt brat”. Behavioural changes of thesociety regarding the child have been observed in the third stage according to Turansky. Thesociety has learnt to separate the principle of punishment and discipline. In the later stage,certain evil nature of the child has been observed and as per professor Sorin, these childrenwere involved in criminal activities. The fourth stage has concentrated on the period of childdevelopment for the year of 1970 to 1980. At this stage, the children were trained with adulteducation and cultural changes had been grown in them (Gordon, & Browne, 2013).

2HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF EARLY CHILDHOODMentality of the society for educating the child in their early childhood has grown in thetwentieth century. It is regarded as the last stage. A child was considered as the saviour andthe conception of commodity child has been abolished (Campbell et al., 2014). Professor Ressa Sorin had worked on the child development process and raisedhis voice against the involvement of child in political agenda. He had pointed out certainissues like whether the treatment of every child in a similar manner is right or wrong (Sorin,2014). Professor Sorin has redefined the construction stages and he support the role of theparents in the child development process. He was of the opinion that the nature of thetreatment should be supportive. The main discussed topic regarding his thesis is that hebelieved that even the children with criminal mentality should be treated morally. Accordingto his view, family dispute or society makes the child criminal and therefore, there is anecessity to change the mentality of the society and family towards the children (Robinson,2013). Professor Sultana Ali Norozi (2016) has reviewed childhood constructiontheory from social aspect and argued the matter within the hypothesis of childhood research.According to her, the construction theory is differed from society to society and factors likegender or belief. She has concentrated over the knowledge construction of a child and pointsout the perfection that are needed to grow the mental condition of a child.

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