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Abstract

This study deals with the construction and development of Pashtun’s childhood as cultural learning in doing Pashto, which highlights patterns, practices and characteristics of family-based parenting and community-based parenting in form of duty, honor which involved emotional dehumanization and projects Pashtun children as unintelligible and ignorant subject in the past. Pashtun children are the most marginalized portion of society. This study tried to understand concepts and moral understanding of Pashtun society which projected the development of children behaviors and emotions in different stages of childhood. There are historical efforts after the ethnic modernism which deeply affected the culture of learning for children in Pashtun society. This study adopted the patterns of Pashtun childhood, which reinforces by the burden of historical past through cultural labor of learning in Pashtun society. Thorough history methods this study tried to evaluate Pashtun children’s literature from private to public spaces. This study integrates into the history of Pashtun family and doing Pashto as an ancient institutions and social contracts in Pashtunkhwa. This study tried to reenact labor of learning as cultural capital integrated with the historical development of Childhood. It helps historiographic representation of children’s labor of leaning in Pashtun society.