The Digital Child

Zusatztext 'Dan Dervin is a superb writer! poet! and historian. For years he has stood out as a compelling interpreter of the inner lives and motivations of groups and individuals. He proves once again that he stands apart as one of today's most solid and interesting scholars.' -David R. Beisel! Professor Emeritus! State University of New York'Daniel Dervin takes the pulse of psycho-spiritual reality in our world today! together with a profound sense of past and future. You will not want to miss so many details of real lives and their challenges. At the same time! the creative spirit in the work itself gives a bracing sense that the quest for wisdom is still alive.' -Michael Eigen! Author! Contact with the Depths! Under the Totem! and Faith?"As a parent of two children who are growing up in this digital age! I share some of the concerns that Dervin expresses. Chief among those concerns is if the reliance upon technology by our youth is turning them away from being "children" and ultimately producing adults who are incapable of interacting in social situations... Dervin's talents and research delve deep into psychological analysis and studies that he cites throughout the book"- Drew Gallagher! THE FREE LANCE-STAR Informationen zum Autor Daniel Dervin is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of several books and continues to publish in applied psychoanalysis and psychohistory. Klappentext Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop. But with all this external stimulation, has childhood development been helped or hindered? Zusammenfassung Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop. But with all this external stimulation, has childhood development been helped or hindered? Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue : Where Have All the Children Gone? Introduction : Writing Childhood and the Seven Stages of the Child 1.Childhood and Its Perennial Discontents: Digital Child Introduced 2. How Parenting and Group-Fantasies May Impinge on Inwardness 3. The Prehistory of Parenting and the Dawn of Inwardness:Tribal Child 4: A New Inwardness in the Classical World:Pedagogical Child 5: Suffer the Children: Ownership of the Faith Child 6. Saving the Faith Child: Ecclesiastical Interventions 7. Childhood Inside Art's Looking Glass 8. The Humanist Child Peers out from Renaissance Madonnas 9. The Rational Child and the Democratizing of Inwardness 10. Themes and Variations: Childrearing in Central and Eastern Europe 11. Conflicted Inwardness from Blood-Milk Equations 12. Inwardness Coexisting in the Citizen Child and the Digital Child Appendix : Saving Boys in/from the Church: A Personal Odyssey Selected Bibliography ...

'Dan Dervin is a superb writer, poet, and historian. For years he has stood out as a compelling interpreter of the inner lives and motivations of groups and individuals. He proves once again that he stands apart as one of today's most solid and interesting scholars.' David R. Beisel, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York 'Daniel Dervin takes the pulse of psycho-spiritual reality in our world today, together with a profound sense of past and future. You will not want to miss so many details of real lives and their challenges. At the same time, the creative spirit in the work itself gives a bracing sense that the quest for wisdom is still alive.' Michael Eigen, Author, Contact with the Depths, Under the Totem, and Faith "As a parent of two children who are growing up in this digital age, I share some of the concerns that Dervin expresses. Chief among those concerns is if the reliance upon technology by our youth is turning them away from being children and ultimately producing adults who are incapable of interacting in social situations... Dervin's talents and research delve deep into psychological analysis and studies that he cites throughout the book" Drew Gallagher, THE FREE LANCESTAR

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Daniel Dervin is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of several books and continues to publish in applied psychoanalysis and psychohistory.

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Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop. But with all this external stimulation, has childhood development been helped or hindered?

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Prologue: Where Have All the Children Gone? Introduction: Writing Childhood and the Seven Stages of the Child 1.Childhood and Its Perennial Discontents: Digital Child Introduced 2. How Parenting and Group-Fantasies May Impinge on Inwardness 3. The Prehistory of Parenting and the Dawn of Inwardness:Tribal Child 4: A New Inwardness in the Classical World:Pedagogical Child 5: Suffer the Children: Ownership of the Faith Child 6. Saving the Faith Child: Ecclesiastical Interventions 7. Childhood Inside Art's Looking Glass 8. The Humanist Child Peers out from Renaissance Madonnas 9. The Rational Child and the Democratizing of Inwardness 10. Themes and Variations: Childrearing in Central and Eastern Europe 11. Conflicted Inwardness from Blood-Milk Equations 12. Inwardness Coexisting in the Citizen Child and the Digital Child Appendix: Saving Boys in/from the Church: A Personal Odyssey Selected Bibliography