Childhood studies
Childhood research (English Children and Childhood studies, CCS; schwed. Barnforskning ) is an interdisciplinary research area whose job it is to structural problems that affect the quality of childhood in different cultures, to understand and to find approaches to the difficulties. The childhood research draws from the various disciplines of social science (among anthropology, economics, history, sociology ), the humanities ( literature, religious studies, art history ) and the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology.
History
The childhood research is a very young research discipline. Considerations for the development of this area of research can be found inter alia in Jean and Richard Mills ' Childhood Studies: A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood (2000 ) and Mary Jane Kehilys An Introduction to Childhood Studies ( 2004). The first projects to childhood research emerged mid-1980s in the UK. These projects were developed as a research "modules" within established research areas such as Education.
The emergence of childhood research as an academic discipline must be described in the context of the emergence of other interdisciplinary research areas such as African American studies and women's studies. All of these disciplines have emerged from the effort out to make the situation such social groups available to researchers who have remained hitherto been little attention or even from science displaced.
Critics and critics of the Western-dominated production of knowledge about childhood eg in India argue that just this side oriented towards operations research approach continues to write a distorted, in the tradition of colonialism view. The research agenda is imposed on them by the donors.
Childhood research in different countries
Great Britain
How Kehili reported, there is a field of study " Childhood Research" only recently. In the UK, the Open University offered the first such course at ( 2003). Since 2004, the Swansea University in Wales, a Department of Childhood Studies. More exist at Canterbury Christ Church University ( Canterbury ) at Anglia Ruskin University, at the University of Birmingham, at the Liverpool John Moores University, from Middlesex University ( London) and at Northumbria University ( Newcastle). In London, also one of the most significant research libraries is on the theme: Opened in 1977, the Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies at Roehampton University.
United States
At American universities, there are already dozens of Childhood " modules ", minor in degree programs and majors, for example, at Brooklyn College, at Case Western Reserve University ( Cleveland), at the Christopher Newport University ( Newport News) at the University of Florida ( Gainesville ) and at Plymouth State University ( Plymouth ( New Hampshire) ). At Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey is currently being created the first study program of the country, can also be studied as a major subject in which childhood research (with all academic levels from Bachelor to Ph.D. ).
Sweden
In Sweden, there are departments for Childhood Research at the Educational Science Faculty of the University of Gothenburg and the University of Linköping.
Germany
In Germany, at the Faculty of Education, University of Erfurt, a field of Primary Education and Childhood Research. At the Institute of Education at the elementary and primary level of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt there is a teaching and research focus on " Childhood Research". The Magdeburg-Stendal University offers an interdisciplinary study "Applied Childhood Studies " at. At the Free University of Berlin, the " European Master in Childhood Studies and Children's Rights " is offered as further leading master's degree program in English.
Other countries
Departments with a research focus on " childhood research " consist in the following universities:
- Monash University, Australia
- Doshisha Women's College, Kyoto, Japan
- Queen Arwa University, Sana'a, Yemen
- York University, Toronto, Canada
- Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius, Lithuania