Childrearing culture from the agrarian era to the digital age
Chris Girard · Open Access Government · 2023
Childrearing culture from the agrarian era to the digital age Chris Girard, an Associate Professor of Sociology in Florida International University, looks at childrearing culture from the perspective of coevolving informatics. During the 20th and 21st centuries, growth in mass schooling represents a rupture with thousands of years of home-based socialization of children. The spatiotemporal dynamics of expanding children's formal education, outside of the home, coevolve with more learning-centred culture and greater specialization in energy sources (e.g., fossil fuels, electricity). This three-way interaction between socializing information flows, space, and energy is investigated by coevolving informatics. A key insight is that greater depth in information flows overcomes spatiotemporal and energy-conversion barriers (Girard 2020).