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==External links== |
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* [http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com Taking Children Seriously Website.] |
* [http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com Taking Children Seriously Website.] |
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* [http://www.curi.us/archives/61 Elliot Temple's education and parenting posts] |
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* [http://fallibleideas.com/ Fallible Ideas] |
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* [http://fallibleliving.com/essays/on-taking-children-seriously/ Fallible Living TCS Essays] |
* [http://fallibleliving.com/essays/on-taking-children-seriously/ Fallible Living TCS Essays] |
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Taking Children Seriously (TCS) is a parenting movement and educational philosophy whose central idea is that it is possible and desirable to raise and educate children without either doing anything to them against their will, or making them do anything against their will.
It was founded in 1994 as an email mailing-list by the libertarians Sarah Fitz-Claridge and David Deutsch. Deutsch is also a theoretical physicistatOxford University.[1]
TCS begins with the observation that most traditional interactions between adults and youth are based on coercion. The TCS model of parenting and education rejects this coercion as infringing on the will of the child, and also rejects parental or educator "self-sacrifice" as infringing on the will of the adult. TCS advocates that parents and children work to find a common preference, a solution all parties genuinely prefer to all other candidate solutions they can think of.[2]
The TCS philosophy was inspired by the epistemologyofKarl Popper. Popper was a professional educator himself before he started to do philosophy. In fact, philosophy was only a second option for him at that time, to be able to emigrate to escape the imminent Anschluss. He was active in the Wiener Schulreform (Vienna school reform) movement,[3][4] and there are connections between the psychology of learning, on which he did his doctoral thesis,[5] and his philosophy.[6] However, as a philosopher, he did not advocate any concrete pedagogy, although he had some general views on the issue.[7] TCS views Popper's epistemology, as Popper himself, as a universal theory of how knowledge grows, and tries to work out its profound implications for educational theory.
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