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.

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