Historical dynamics of issues aimed at the consideration of social and cultural childhood space

Consideration of the social dynamics of childhood is of particular interest caused by attention to the child’s world, its values and subculture. The presented cultural and historical aspect to some extent reveals the key positions aimed at characterizing the child period from birth to 11 years. In this period, the foundations of the future personality are laid through upbringing, creative development, and the influence of various social and cultural processes. Each historical epoch made a certain contribution to the childhood picture. In antiquity philosophical views on the growing stage are formed, in the Middle Ages artists displayed the children world by painting it on canvases, the Renaissance appeals through literature to psychological aspects of childhood. The past century with collected experience of previous generations allows to reveal the full potential, previously dormant in pedagogical thought. This contributed to the emergence of new leisure facilities, the children’s movement (not only in Russia but also abroad), writing children’s literature, etc. We give the generalized characteristic of the child’s personality development process is given and we pay attention to the historical dynamics of social and cultural childhood issues. We reveal the factors that most qualitatively influence the development stage of a person, understanding the concept of “childhood”.

childhood, social and cultural space, younger generation, creative potential of a child, growing process, children’s literature, upbringing, leisure