Childism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Childism is a noun meaning Responding to children's particular lived experiences.
Meaning
Responding to children's particular lived experiences.
More Meanings
- Empowering children as an oppressed group
- Prejudice and/or discrimination against the young.
- (countable) A child-like insight or behavior made by an adult
Example Sentences
If nothing else, a project in childism would ask those who study ethics to reflect on whether they are considering the challenge of childhood.
. Some of these childisms are: (1) “Thimble-drinker … He lived in a cara-van. Dum dum.” All of these childisms originate in childhood incidents .
About the same time I was working on my life is a circle theory, I was also working on a childism that could define human behavior and explain why people behave the way they do and predict their behavior.
He rightly suggests that “the story of childhood cannot be told in one-dimensional formulas of either innocence and vulnerability or unruliness and undevelopment” (7), but instead require a new paradigm for ethics: “childism.”
Word Forms
- childisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adultomorphism, diatropism, alloparenting, biochild, autonepiophilia, babyness.
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