Childhood: From Toddlers to Teenagers
How have our ideas about childhood changed over the centuries? With Alison Gopnik, Ping-chen Hsiung, Hugh Cunningham and Bridget Kendall
Why do humans have such a long period of immaturity? And how have our ideas about childhood changed through the ages and across the world?
Bridget Kendall explores some of the key moments and figures in the history of childhood, including Confucian China, Victorian factories and the 'endless childhood' that some young people seem to be living today. Her guests are Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley; Ping-chen Hsiung Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Hugh Cunningham Professor of Social History at the University of Kent.
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School: good or bad for you?
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- Sat 10 Jun 2017 19:06GMT91热爆 World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
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- Tue 13 Jun 2017 23:06GMT91热爆 World Service except News Internet
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