Tag: ageism
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IV. Ageism
Mandatory education imposed on children by law deprives them of the ability to consent to or remove consent of educational labour and competition. The idea that children must complete unpaid labour for a minimum of eleven years would be viewed as obscene if this law was imposed on any other group of people such as…
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Introduction to Ageism
Children make up over a quarter of the world’s population and childhood is the most “intensely governed sector of personal existence” (Rose, 1985, p. 121). This research will assess how much autonomy is given to a child in regards to the information they are legally obligated to consume, the weight of the incentive to recall…
