How the Industrial Revolution changed childhood

Name: How the Industrial Revolution changed childhood
Uploaded: 2019-11-15T01:10:42Z
Duration: 11 min 42 s
Description: Certain elements of childhood -- school, play, homework -- are often considered universal by those who live in industrial societies. Evolutionary anthropologist Dorsa Amir draws from her time living in foraging societies to explain how the post-industrial experience of childhood is a relatively new development for humanity with wide-ranging implications for child development and parenting.

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TEDxCambridge

• May 2019

Certain elements of childhood -- school, play, homework -- are often considered universal by those who live in industrial societies. Evolutionary anthropologist Dorsa Amir draws from her time living in foraging societies to explain how the post-industrial experience of childhood is a relatively new development for humanity with wide-ranging implications for child development and parenting.

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Dorsa Amir

Evolutionary Anthropologist

Dorsa Amir is an evolutionary anthropologist and postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychology at Boston College.

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