Sidetracked

Yet also not sidetracked

This book (Frankel 2018)

It fits in with the first part of the course. It is challenging us to look at the way we see children.

Universal child vs Individual child – All children are the same. Whether we see children as individual people, rather than a general child..

The Future Child vs Active Child – Children’s value lies in what they will become. Think of what they will become rather than the child as they are, defining when they will become (like Piaget’s narrowing individuals into bands)

Protected Child vs Participating Child – Adults always know best… who gets the kids in a divorce? Adults to the rescue.

Like our view of the one Māori. It seems a lot like a challenge to the Western view of children/childhood. If we were to take up this thinking, would it also affect Māori being able to be educated as Māori, and increase the rate of change that is occurring when young people push for a more woke society 🤔

(Woke as in woken up from their WEIRDness – Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic mindsets)