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By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research
on children's agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant
influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This
has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with
articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias.
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood is the first collection
devoted to the central concept of agency in Childhood Studies. With
contributions from experts in the field, the chapters cover
theoretical, practical, historical, transnational and institutional
dimensions of agency, rekindling discussion and introducing
fundamental and contemporary sociological perspectives to the field
of research. Particular attention is paid to connecting agency in
the social sciences with Childhood Studies, considering both the
theoretical foundations and the practice of research into agency.
Empirical case studies are also explored, which focus upon child
protection, schools and childcare at a variety of institutions
worldwide. This book is an essential reference for students and
scholars of Childhood Studies, and is also relevant to Sociology,
Social Work, Education, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
and Geography.
Children and parents have become a focus of debates on 'new social
risks' in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have
converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms
of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate
their potential. Increasingly, parents are suspected of falling
short of public expectations. Contributors to this special issue
scrutinize this shift towards parenting as performance and analyse
recent forms of parenting support.
By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research
on children's agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant
influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This
has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with
articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias.
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood is the first collection
devoted to the central concept of agency in Childhood Studies. With
contributions from experts in the field, the chapters cover
theoretical, practical, historical, transnational and institutional
dimensions of agency, rekindling discussion and introducing
fundamental and contemporary sociological perspectives to the field
of research. Particular attention is paid to connecting agency in
the social sciences with Childhood Studies, considering both the
theoretical foundations and the practice of research into agency.
Empirical case studies are also explored, which focus upon child
protection, schools and childcare at a variety of institutions
worldwide. This book is an essential reference for students and
scholars of Childhood Studies, and is also relevant to Sociology,
Social Work, Education, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
and Geography. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138854192_oachapter6.pdf
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