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Key Concepts

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    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

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