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Re-thinking Indian Childhood: Conception, Gendered Socialization and Education

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 Supriya Kaushik 0 Comments adulthood, American, benefit, boundaries, boy, boyhood, British, carefree, child, childhood, cognitive, colonial, comprehension, conception, confident, deprivation, emotional, experiment, feelings, fluid, freedom, Freud, generalization, girl, governmental, Happiness, ignorance, immature, india, Indian childhood, influence, kids, knowledge, learning, mature, mental, oblivion, participation, pedagogy, physical, Piaget, process, Protection, prototype, research, safety, school, sexual, skills, social, societal, system, talent, teaching, teenagers, thought, unaware, viewpoint, Western childhood

Of all the seasons we weather in our lives, childhood is one we hold on to. We carry it with us wherever we go. Virginia Woolf had said, “Why must they grow up and lose it all?”. The question is, does childhood actually have a proper definition or do we mould it as per our needs to see what we want?