NB The language of instruction will be Dutch unless English-speaking students participate.
Co-ordinator
Prof. dr. R. van der Veer.
Course objectives
In this course we highlight historical trends in advice to parents about child raising. Since a few centuries, parents are assisted by so-called experts who provide them with guidelines as to how to bring up their children. Clergymen, medical doctors, pedagogues, and, increasingly, psychologists have voiced strong opinions about mundane matters such as bedtime tantrums and toilet training. It was repeatedly suggested that bringing up a child is too difficult a task for ordinary parents. Meanwhile, the experts themselves differed in opinion and their counsel did not always rest upon solid scientific research. It will be shown that advice was influenced by such currents as psychoanalysis and behaviorism and that it changed when new concepts became fashionable or new technologies became available. Evidently, much allegedly scientific advice was based upon no more than contemporary culture-bound opinion. Thematically, the course is linked to the BA course Opvoedingsvoorlichting, preventie en interventie.
Achievement levels: 1-12.
Methods of instruction
Lectures.
Study material
Literature is to be announced.
Van der Veer, R. (2010). Opvoeden door beginners (delen hieruit)
Examination
Written test.
Timetable
Applications
U-Twist registration is a requirement for ALL courses and exams.
The deadline for course registration is 2 weeks before the first class; the deadline for exam registration is 1 week before the exam.
Attendance without registration is forbidden!