Rosen, R; (2020) Childhood Studies. In: Cook, D, (ed.) SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. (pp. 345-350). SAGE: Thousand Oaks, US.

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Abstract

Childhood studies is a multidisciplinary academic field focused on childhood and the everyday lives of chil- dren. It emerged in the late 1980s in response to a series of critiques about the way that prior research had either ignored children or treated them solely as objects of adult socialisation and biological development. Al- so known as ‘child studies’, ‘children studies’, or the ‘social studies of childhood’, it is a thriving and dynamic area of scholarship across Europe, the Americas, the Antipodes, and some parts of Asia and Africa. There are degree programmes, dedicated research centres, research networks, and specialist academic jour- nals devoted to the sociocultural study of childhood. This entry provides a brief history of the field and outlines some of the core theoretical assumptions of what has been called the ‘new paradigm’ in the study of child- hood. The concluding section takes stock of how these foundational claims have been elaborated over the past three decades as well as more recent critiques and reevaluations.

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