Beyond the Century of the Child (English, Willem Koops | Michael Zuckerman)

About the Book

In 1900, Ellen Key wrote the international bestseller The Century of the Child . In this enormously influential book, she proposed that the world's children should be the central work of society during the twentieth century. Although she never thought that her "century of the child" would become a reality, in fact it had much more resonance than she could have imagined. The idea of the child as a product of a protective and coddling society has g…

ISBN: 9780812237047