The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Why Social Studies of Childhood? An Introduction to the Handbook....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Childhood as a Structural Form....Pages 21-33
Agency....Pages 34-45
Child Development and the Development of Childhood....Pages 46-61
How Is the Child Constituted in Childhood Studies?....Pages 62-77
Method and Methodology in Childhood Research....Pages 78-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Evolution of Childhood in Western Europe c.1400–c.1750....Pages 99-113
Transitions to Modernity....Pages 114-126
Institutionalization as a Secular Trend....Pages 127-139
Pluralization of Family Forms....Pages 140-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Generational Order....Pages 159-174
Generational Relations at Family Level....Pages 175-187
Children, Generational Relations and Intergenerational Justice....Pages 188-201
Collective Identities....Pages 202-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Children’s Bodies....Pages 217-227
Policies in Early Childhood Education and Care: Potentialities for Agency, Play and Learning....Pages 228-237
Localities: A Holistic Frame of Reference for Appraising Social Justice in Children’s Lives....Pages 238-255
Children as Problems, Problems of Children....Pages 256-272
Childhood: Leisure, Culture and Peers....Pages 273-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
From Child Labour to Working Children’s Movements....Pages 289-300
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Peer Culture....Pages 301-315
Play and Games....Pages 316-331
Children as Consumers....Pages 332-346
Children and Television....Pages 347-359
Children and Digital Media: Online, On Site, On the Go....Pages 360-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Children’s Rights as Human Rights: Reading the UNCRC....Pages 377-393
Interests in and Responsibility for Children and Their Life-Worlds....Pages 394-407
Transnational Mobilities and Childhoods....Pages 408-421
Closing the Gap Between Rights and the Realities of Children’s Lives....Pages 422-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-452