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MISTICA: Re: TIC y jovenes

From: D. Williams ([email protected])
Date: Sun Sep 28 2003 - 18:40:32 AST

Some ideas:

This week I was trying to explain to my students that our perception of
"childhood" and "children" did not necessarily exist at other times in
history. We are currently studying a novel written early in the eighteenth
century which begins by describing the childhood and adolescence of the
central figure.

Miguel Angel's message made me think more about the different "frames"
through which young human beings can be observed. Perhaps by "inventing"
childhood as a phenomenon, (and I think this happened comparatively
recently), however altruistic the motivation, a situation was created which
allowed the domination of the human young, by the stripping away of some of
the rights they might otherwise claim as human beings.

I wonder whether this world of virtual communication in which they are so
very much at home is in fact the children's opportunity to fight back, to
reclaim a voice, to reclaim self-governance, to reclaim rights which were
taken away from them when human beings were separated into "adults" and
"children" - not because we, the adults, give them something, but because
they take it for themselves.

Aristide said that "freedom is something you take. It is not given to you."

Over to you Senor Profesor de Filosfia

Deirdre

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