Escape from Childhood
Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children is a book by American author and educator John Holt.
For most of John Holt’s career as an author he wrote primarily about schooling. Escape from Childhood still holds ties to the messages of his other books, but it focuses on Holt's thoughts and beliefs about the rights of children in society in general rather than schooling specifically. The book advocates for youth rights and against adultism and ephebiphobia, as evidenced in Holt's opening statement: "I propose...that the rights, privileges, duties of adult citizens be made available to any young person, of whatever age, who wants to make use of them."[1]
References
- ^ Holt, J. (1974) Escape from Childhood Boston: E. P. Dutton.
External links
- John Holt and Growing without Schooling website
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- Evolving capacities
- Free-range parenting
- Future generations
- Intergenerational equity
- Leaving the nest
- Student voice
- Youth-adult partnership
- Youth mainstreaming
- Youth rights
- Youth voice
- Anarchistic free school
- Community youth development
- Democratic education
- Popular education
- Positive youth development
- Student activism
- Student-centered learning
- Student rights
- Teen court
- Youth activism
- Youth council
- Youth engagement
- Youth leadership
- Youth-led media
- Youth organizations
- Youth participation
- Youth philanthropy
- Youth politics
- Youth service
- Youth suffrage
- Youth vote
- Youth work
- Adultcentrism
- Adultism
- Age restrictions
- Ageism
- Control freak
- Eleutherophobia
- Ephebiphobia
- Fear of children
- Gerontocracy
- Grounding
- Helicopter parent
- Infantilization
- Intrusiveness
- Narcissism
- Parental respect
- Paternalism
- Patriarchy
- School-to-prison pipeline
- Vicariousness
- Youth control complex
- Youth exclusion
- Age of candidacy
- Age of consent reform
- Age of criminal responsibility
- Beat Generation
- Beatnik
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Greaser
- Hippies
- Hungry generation
- International Youth Year
- LGBT student movement
- Subcultures of the 1950s
- Taking Children Seriously
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook
- Teenage rebellion
- UK underground
- Voting age
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