Visuomenės ideologijos vaiko ir vaikystės atžvilgiu kaita: nuo tradicionalizmo į posttradicionalizmą
LTVaikai visuomenėje yra svarbi socialinė grupė. Tačiau ji dažniausia yra vertinama tik kaip šalutinė ir pagal amžių priskiriama nepakankamai socialiai subrendusių grupei. Todėl ideologija jos atžvilgiu keičiasi labai lėtai. Ji dažniausia būna grindžiama tradicinėmis sampratomis, standartizuotu mąstymu, labiau orientuotu j praeitį nei į dabartį. Besikeičianti ir nuolat atsinaujinanti visuomenė siūlo naujas pedocentrines orientacijas ir meta iššūkį senosioms. Tai padiktuoja tam tikras visuomenės sąmonės būsenas. Straipsnyje analizuojami tradicinės ir moderniosios sąmonės sankirtų paveikti socialiniai ir edukaciniai reiškiniai visuomenėje ir pagrindiniuose vaikų ugdymo institutuose (šeimoje, darželyje, mokykloje).
ENChildren are an important social group in the society. However, most often it is valued only as secondary and according to age it is attributed to the group of the insufficiently socially mature. Therefore, ideology with regard to it is changing very slowly. It is most often grounded on traditional conceptions, standardised thinking that is more orientated to the past than to the future. Changing and constantly renewing society offers new pedocentristic orientations and challenges the old ones. This dictates certain states of consciousness of the society. The article deals with social and educational phenomena, influenced by intersections of traditional and modern consciousness in the society and in the main children's educational institutions (family, kindergarten, school). The ideology of emancipation of social groups that emerged in the 20 century enabled to look deeper into these social groups which often fall into the field of social isolation. One of such groups is children. Problems of their emancipation due to their exceptional status with regard to adults' group have not been solved yet. Children give a sense to adults' interests and expectations and are a constituent of an important institution (family). Due to this peculiarity (children are dependent) they cannot take part in the life of the society because they are not socially mature people. By this they differ even from such social groups which are mostly discriminated in the society (e.g., women and workers). Due to their immaturity they are not able to evaluate their situation and cannot inform the society about it.In adults' ideology children's age is valued as an essential and distinguishing feature of their group, which by itself also outlines peculiarities of their social lifestyle. By the way, gender is remembered far more seldom although it is a very important category of children's socialisation. Being a relative and not a permanent conception, in many cases age cannot correspond to that role which is attributed to it by adults, describing the child. It is often overvalued and at the same time dynamic formations of childrens social maturity are left without any attention. Changes in children's development and at the same time becoming of children as social personalities have been insufficiently analysed.
