Key Concepts in Childhood Studies are described by James and James (2012).  We will explore these concepts in this course. To discover more about each concept and to get ideas for further study for your projects,  please reference Key Concepts in Childhood Studies available in Google Books.

Age and Maturity

Agency

Best Interests

Child

Child-Friendly

Childhood

Child Soldiers

Childhood Studies

Children as Consumers

Children as Researchers

Children’s Voices

Citizenship  

Competence

Cultural Politics of Childhood

Cultural Relativism

Delinquency

Developmental Psychology

Developmentalism

Disappearance or Loss of Childhood

Diversity

Ethnicity

Familialization

Family

Friendship

Futurity

Gender

Generation

Global Childhood

Health

Innocence

Internet and  Social Media

Interpretive Reproduction

Minority Group Status

Nature & Nurture

Needs

Neglect

Parenting

Participation

Peer Group

Play

Poverty

Protection

Representation

Resilience

Responsibility

Rights

Schooling and Schools

Sexual Abuse

Sexualization

Social Actor

Social Construction

Social World

Socialization

Spaces for Children and Children’s Places

Standpoint

Street Children

Structure

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

Vulnerability

Welfare

Work and Working Children

Youth