ADULTISM
Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about ADULTISM!
Adultism: At the heart of most interactions between children, youth and adults is adultism, the bias towards adults. Whether we’re talking about education, youth work, business, schools, gove…
Adultism: At the heart of most interactions between children, youth and adults is adultism, the bias towards adults. Whether we’re talking about education, youth work, business, schools, gove…
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: adultism defined as “power adults have over children” term used to describe “bias towards adults” and “social addiction to adults” term also used to refer to stealing and prostitution . author: adultism is the abuse of the power adults have over children . author: it is an addiction to the attitudes, ideas, beliefs, and actions of adults . adults are ostensibly caused by fear of children ‘adultism, which is associated with a view of the self that trades on rejecting and excluding child-subjectivity, has always been present in western culture’.Fletcher suggests that adultism has a study by the Crisis Prevention Institute of the prevalence of adultism found an increasing number of local youth-serving organizations addressing the issue . it is treated as a generalization of paternalism, allowing for the some activists alternatively call adultism “youthism,” or “childism” equating it to sexism and heterosexualism . at least one prominent organization describes discrimination against youth as age youth on board argues that “addressing adultist behavior by calling it ageism is discrimination against youth in itself” it has been associated with psychological projection and splitting, a process whereby ‘the one with the power attributes his 43% of british youth surveyed experience discrimination based on their age . more than other categories of discrimination like sex, race, or sexual orientation . “adultism convinces us internalized adultism leads to phenomena tattling on our siblings or being the ‘teacher’s pet,’ to name just two examples . other examples include many forms of violence imposed upon children and youth by adults social science literature has identified adultism as “within the context of the social inequality and the oppression of children” any restriction or exploitation of people because of their young age may be said to be adultist . restrictions are many youth rallying against adultist myths spread through mass media from 1970s to 1990s . research shows that social stratification between age groups causes stereotyping and generalization . a reactive social response to adultism takes many youth-led social change efforts have inherently responded to adultism . much of popular researcher Margaret Mead’s work can be said to be a response . topic has recently been addressed in liberation psychology literature Educator: teaching adults about adultism is vital step to addressing the effects . at least one organization and one curriculum do just that . Several educators have created curricula that seeks to teach youth about adult children step up and take action to call out bias towards adults . youth-led programming allows the voices of the youth to be heard and taken into consideration . accepting that children are ready to learn about themselves will decrease misinformation spread . “addressing adultism is not about reversing the power structure … [or] completely eradicating it”: a writer . a “homunculus idea about children” fuels an attack on Unit on Adultism from SocialJusticeEducation.org, originally located at Creighton University . Tate, T. (2003). “Adultism versus climates of excellence”. Reclaiming Children and Youth. 12 (1): 40–46.