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Childhood and Youth

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: teacher training and education science
Qualification: MA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Master of Arts (MA)
University website: www.beds.ac.uk
Childhood
Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, childhood consists of two stages: preoperational stage and concrete operational stage. In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood (learning to walk), early childhood (play age), middle childhood (school age), and adolescence (puberty through post-puberty). Various childhood factors could affect a person's attitude formation.
Youth
Youth is the time of life when one is young, and often means the time between childhood and adulthood (maturity). It is also defined as "the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young". Its definitions of a specific age range varies, as youth is not defined chronologically as a stage that can be tied to specific age ranges; nor can its end point be linked to specific activities, such as taking unpaid work or having sexual relations without consent.
Youth
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young,
And always keep us so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, The Poet. Introduction
Youth
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Schiller
Youth
What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's?
Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835, published 1842), Stanza 70
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