The History Of The Childhood In The Early Modernism’s Period: Review Of The European And Ukrainian Historiography

The contemporary society is becoming even more child-orientated. Meanwhile the childhood is vigorously leaving its established frameworks: family, study, a respective branch, and is globalizing, significantly influencing politics or becoming natural in international movements. Greta Thunberg is a bright example of this process, whose activity is highly evaluated (from condemnation to admiration) but nevertheless it’s impossible not to be noticeable. Probably this model is the brilliant embodiment of a gradually disappearing modernism childhood model formed in the ХІХth century. On the other hand plenty of participants of the enhanced modern teenager movements discussions are extremely fond of the historical parallels research which has much in common with the so-called “childish crusade”. Such comparisons do not take into account the difference between current and premodernism societies particularly in understanding children’s things, the essence and nature of childhood. Such important components of culture as for example the value of children’s matters, family strategies, parental feelings are drastically changing during the couple of decades. Instead, these models are supposed to have been strictly represented in the past as fixed, unchangeable, “immortal”. Even more in modern Ukraine this alleged “immortality” of recognizing family and childhood is used even as the object of political manipulations. The matter is in the usage of fixed stereotypes about allegedly “ideal Ukrainian old times” to which we should return