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Where Angels Fear To Tread, Mary Horgan, Francis Douglas
Where Angels Fear To Tread, Mary Horgan, Francis Douglas
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
This paper considers education as the fulfilment of a person's overall potential as a human being. It thus concentrates on the multiplicity of factors which interact and interweave to produce ulfilled, caring members of our society. The whole notion of child development can only be understood within a cultural context. As Mead (1932) showed, child rearing practices differ from culture to culture and the role of adults in that culture has a strong influence on the type of activity in which their young offspring engage. For example, playing at mothers and fathers will obviously eflect the different functions that adults …