Images of children are formed in many ways. The most productive
understandings of image formation and revision have come from historical
analyses of childhood (e.g. Cunningham 1998, 2007; Whiteman, De Gioia
& Mevawalla 2012). Although these analyses have been restricted to
relatively recent and mainly Western ideas of childhood, it is apparent that
the broad community consensus on what a child or childhood is, can and