This paper examines the work of Philippe Arie s on the history of childhood and family focusing on its implications for the history of education. Philippe Arie s` work on history of childhood, originally published in France in 1960, gained wide popula...
This paper examines the work of Philippe Arie s on the history of childhood and family focusing on its implications for the history of education. Philippe Arie s` work on history of childhood, originally published in France in 1960, gained wide popularity after it was translated into English in 1961 in the USA. Numerous accounts have been made over the book for the previous decades. This study is to reappraise Arie s` work in light of his understanding of modernity, especially focusing on the notion of pre-modern socialit e as opposed to the individualism, which developed with the rise of the affectionate nuclear family. In this paper, the historical approach of Arie s is compared with that of Lawrence Stone, a critic of him who later published a book on the history of family which shares some striking similarities with the work of Arie s. Focusing on the methodology and thesis of Arie s, this paper compares the work with Stone`s as a point of comparison to clarify and problematize the questions raised in the history of childhood and family.