Describe what you think are some of the key continuities and discontinuities disclosed by historical scholarship considered in this course.

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Due date/time: Wednesday, December 15, by 11:00 p.m. Please submit your completed exam
via the appropriate Sakai Assignment tab. Like all assignments submitted via Sakai, the
submitted exams will be subject to review by Turnitin.com.
Please answer each of the following questions, drawing wherever possible on course material
from Classes 7-12 to support your answer. Your answer to each question should range
between 500-1000 words.
Each question is worth 10 marks.
I don’t require that you follow a specific format for citing course lectures or readings. As far as
lecture material is concerned, I will know just from the content of your answer that you are
drawing on that material (so you don’t necessarily have to mention the specific class, like
Lecture 7, etc.). For readings, you can cite the author’s name or refer to the content in a way
that makes it clear you are drawing on the reading (e.g., “In the reading on the Anglo-American
playground movement…”). Again, I don’t require any citing formalities here—just do what
makes sense to you and I will be able to discern that you drew on course material.

Question 1
Historically, “child savers,” social reformers, and others have had to persuade the public, policymakers, and/or benefactors of the value and importance of their plans for promoting, ensuring,
or safeguarding children’s well-being. Drawing widely on course material (i.e., from at least 2
classes), describe some of the ideas, arguments, and/or strategies that such individuals have
pursued in their efforts to raise awareness of and support for their respective proposals.

Question 2
Provide a response to the following claim that is informed by material considered in this course:
“Adults’ recollections of their childhoods are fundamentally incapable of revealing the nature of
young people’s experience in the past. Accordingly, oral histories are of very limited use to
historians of childhood and youth.”

Question 3
Complex historical narratives of childhood typically uncover both continuities and discontinuities
in conceptions of childhood and/or children’s experiences over time. Describe what you think are
some of the key continuities and discontinuities disclosed by historical scholarship considered in
this course. (As noted above, you should focus on material considered in Classes 7-12).

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