Electronic Issue "Scientific Research"

ISSN: 1312-7535
Title Axiological aspects of childhood in elementary school pupils
Authors Lilyana Todorova

Abstract

We all carry in our hearts the images and memories of our childhood. They have a kind of halo of our most pleasant experiences. The energy, freedom and informality of child games; the naughty adventures and pure friendship. Childhood is a subject of many literature, music and other works of art and almost all authors describe their childhood looking through pink glasses. We say that childhood does not finish the moment we start going to school. Its length is measured not only by age, but also by the development of psychological and personal qualities and the activities the young person performs and the fact that they could be laden with the flavour of his childhood. Childhood has been subject of scientific research and division into periods only the last 200 years. The research was usually the work of specialists in the fields of psychology, physiology, ethnography, ethnology, sociology and philosophy. It was some time later that pedagogues joined them. From historical point of view the concept of childhood is linked not with the biological status of immaturity but with certain social status and number of rights and duties, as well as the activities performed and accessible for the children of this age. There is no unified definition of childhood neither in pedagogy nor in psychology. The term "childhood" however is widely used on different levels and with different meaning. As far as the individual is concerned / on the individual level/ childhood is defined as a stable consequence of acts leading to the growing up of the person, his becoming mature. Generally speaking, however, /having in mind all children/ childhood is said to be the total number of children of different ages that form the "up-to-adult" part of the society 1.


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