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Rousseau's Impact on Childhood Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century philosopher born in Geneva, Switzerland who made significant contributions to political and educational thought. He believed that humans are inherently good but corrupted by society and civilization. His major works like Emile and The Social Contract argued that children are born innocent and should be allowed to develop at their own pace rather than being rushed to adulthood. Rousseau introduced revolutionary concepts such as children having inherent abilities and stages of development rather than simply being prepared for work, which changed societal views on childhood.

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Rousseau's Impact on Childhood Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century philosopher born in Geneva, Switzerland who made significant contributions to political and educational thought. He believed that humans are inherently good but corrupted by society and civilization. His major works like Emile and The Social Contract argued that children are born innocent and should be allowed to develop at their own pace rather than being rushed to adulthood. Rousseau introduced revolutionary concepts such as children having inherent abilities and stages of development rather than simply being prepared for work, which changed societal views on childhood.

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Tiffany Pagan

Annmarie Malchenson

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9/30/2021

Jean – Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Jean – Jacques Rousseau was born a Protestant in Geneva, Switzerland, and

became a Roman Catholic in the 1730s, but later he change his religion beliefs due to him

wanting return to Geneva Switzerland. He became a Protestant.1740s he moved to Paris and

devoted himself to become a writer and a composer of music.

He contributed to many things like an article on music to the encyclopedie of Diderot in

the 1740s. he also won fame for his essay. Called “discourses on science and the art” (1750s). He

also made contributed to “the Social Contract” (1762), he argued that man had been corrupted by

civilization. His ideas on individual liberation from the constraints of society were developed in

the novel Émile.

He was a philosopher of the age of reason and his ideas about society helped to shape the

political events that resulted in the revolution. He introduced the romantic image of the child as

an innocent.

The idea was revolutionary because in the 1700s they believed that child were supposed

to work and grow up fast so they could take care of the family. If the children didn’t work, then

they took care of the younger siblings of the household. People didn’t believe in letting the

children have childhood. So, when Jean – Jacques Rousseau romantic children image it made

people realize that children had innocents to them.


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Jean – Jacques Rousseau book Emile main point was that children are born good rather

than evil, and that they have inherent abilities upon which to build.

This made people change their perspective on things. People use to believe that if you

didn’t listen to what you were told or disobeyed your parents then you had an evil that needed to

be beat out of you. So, when Jean started to speak of this innocent in children it made people

realize that they were being hard on children.

He was also the first to propose the concept of stages of development. He believed that

children should not be rushed through stages, nor that one stage was simply preparation for

another, a concept that continues to have an influence today. This concept change the way people

rushed their children to grow up and work for a living. This concept made people realize that

children need time to grow into adulthood. That was important thing because children were

rushed to go to work and become a functioning human before they even reached adulthood.

Jean ideas are revolutionary because if it were for him, we would still be working at

childhood ages and children would be beaten because of the thought that children disobedience is

due to evil in them.


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Works Cited

"Rousseau, Jean Jacques." Philip's Encyclopedia, Philip's, first edition, 2008. Credo Reference,

https://ezproxy.hacc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/

philipency/rousseau_jean_jacques/0?institutionId=1406. Accessed 04 Oct. 2021.

Bredekamp, Sue. “Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education Building a Foundation.”

Pearson Education Inc. Copy right 2019.

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