The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the deman...ds on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children more... malleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »