Childism

Synonyms for "childism"

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Twain and Salinger's common genius, Heiserman and Miller suggest, lay in their masterful use of a colloquial American adolescent's voice to convey their respective "childism," by which they mean the nostalgic wish to recover our inner Adamic child.

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If nothing else, a project in childism would ask those who study ethics to reflect on whether they are considering the challenge of childhood.

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He rightly suggests that “the story of childhood cannot be told in one-dimensional formulas of either innocence and vulnerability or unruliness and undevelopment” (7), but instead require a new paradigm for ethics: “childism.”

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Using an approach that I call 'childism', which I will say more about below, I wish to look not at how conceptions of play may be applied to children, but instead at how the experiences of children may be applied to conceptions of play.

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