History of childhood and children in Peru, c. 1940 - c. 1970

该项目分析了1940年至1970年间秘鲁儿童的童年观念和生活。在这些年里，秘鲁达到了人口扩张的历史顶峰。该项目旨在表明，在1940年至1970年期间，秘鲁国家和秘鲁社会的重要部门开始感到对儿童福利负有责任。在秘鲁历史上，公共政策第一次旨在改善数百万秘鲁儿童的生活。然而，他们中的许多人继续遭受营养不良、住房条件差和学校教育不足之苦。在儿童观念方面，该项目的重点是秘鲁编写和出版的有关儿童的立法和儿童文学。为了描述儿童的生活，该项目分析了1940年至1970年间学校教育的扩展和关于儿童健康状况的文件。

The project analyses ideas of childhood and the lives of children in Peru between c. 1940 and c. 1970. In these years Peru reached an all-time peak of demographic expansion. The project aims to show that during the years between c. 1940 and c. 1970 the Peruvian state and important sectors of Peruvian society started to feel responsible for children’s welfare. For the first time in Peruvian history, public policies aimed to improve the life of millions of Peruvian children. Nevertheless, a great number of them continued to suffer from malnutrition, bad housing and insufficient school education. For ideas of childhood, the project focusses on legislation concerning children and on literature for children written and published in Peru. For describing the lives of children, the project analyses the expansion of school education and documents about children's state of health between c. 1940 and c. 1970.