The Social Construction of Childhood

The social construction of childhood begins within;

• Schools
• Cultures
• The home in which the child is raised
• All of the above 

Family standards have become enriched in our legal, social, religious and economic systems, which in turn reinforces the ideology and disciplines or alienates those who do not fit the norm. 

• True 
• False 

A teacher should enter the classroom with the assumption that all students are from:

• The same or similar backgrounds
• A White background
• Different backgrounds and need to be treated equally

It is appropriate to differentiate between students if they do not fit your idea of normalcy:

• True
• False

There is a need to change the dominant image of young children from adult-in-the -making, to capable people in their own right? 

• True
• False

It is necessary to engage with the child's participation as a complex process shaped by the values and beliefs of their families? 

• False
• True

What is 'Social Zombies' ? 

• Someone who follows the 'norms' of society 
• Dominance by teacher in the classroom
• Conditions which young children actively interpret and make their own

When teaching in a classroom a dominant voice is always required?

• True
• False

It is important to always listen to students voices when they are sharing stories/ideas or facts?

• True
• False

When a teacher listens to a child, remaining silent at times is important, and to listen deeply it involve;

• fundamental emotional and ethical shift.
• reducing the unknown to the known
• presume to know
• Mosaic approach