The Space of the Children's World: the Problem of Transformation

Introduction . The space of the children's world evolves together with a person's ideas about oneself, the world around them, the development of scientific and technological progress. The purpose of this study is to describe the transformation of the space of the child's world, the change in the socio-cultural position of the child through the acquisition of his / her personal physical space along with the discovery of his /her inner mental world. The relevance is determined by the complexity of the spatial coordinates of the children's world associated with the digitalization of childhood. Scientific novelty consists in an attempt to systematize scientific knowledge in the description of the space of the children's world and to evaluate them from the point of view of the modern socio-cultural state. Methodology and sources . The methodological basis of the work is a cultural philosophical analysis. The works of G. Bachelard, A. Lefebvre, M. Foucault and other authors were used as a philosophical understanding of the problem of space. Cultural and ethnographic analysis of the phenomenon of childhood, carried out in the works of F. Aries, J. Duby, M. Mead, K. Levi-Strauss, contributed to the understanding of the space of the children's world and the problem of its transformation. Results and discussion . The space of the children's world is associated with a combination of various socio-cultural factors that change throughout historical time. The space of the children's world opens up in the eyes of an adult with the manifestation of interest in children's experiences, the inner psychological structure of the child. Great importance in the transformation of the childhood space occurs at the moment when the child finds his / her own “place” in the house. The traditional expansion of the space of the children's world (house-street-city-country-world) in modern times acquires another dimension – virtuality. Conclusion . The evolution of the socio-cultural position of the child in society depended on the specifics of ideas about the rules of behavior, social habits, ritual practices. For a long time, the space of the children's world was perceived as fundamentally different from the space of an adult, carried beyond its limits. The digitalization of childhood has provided the world with new dangers associated with the risks of finding a child in virtual spaces beyond the control of an adult.