Global childhoods
Short description
The focus of the research in Childhoods is on the conditions and rights of children inside and outside social institutions in local as well as global contexts. At a general level, the research conducted deals with issues of how childhood is construed discursively, materially, spatially and in social interaction.
About the research theme
The focus of the research in Global Childhoods is on the conditions and rights of children inside and outside social institutions in local as well as global contexts. At a general level, the research conducted deals with issues of how childhood is construed discursively, materially, spatially and in social interaction. A central analytical focus is the interest in children’s meaning-making, rights and possibilities to exert agency in different activities. This includes an interest in how children themselves contribute to the construction of childhoods. The different projects address issues of children as citizens, leisure time activities and cultural expressions, childhood and the Internet, children in precarious circumstances as well as children and migration, and childhoods in a globalised world. In the research projects, the ambition is to include the perspectives on sustainable development that concern children and childhood articulated in Agenda 2030.
Colloquiuem
The colloquium is devoted to developing knowledge of how conceptions of children, childhoods and identities of children change over time and through globalization, and how such changes are expressed by children, in families and among pedagogues inside and outside educational institutions. The ambition is to develop insights into how childhoods are construed in contemporary society as well as how they have been construed through history. The colloquium is led by associate professor Anette Hellman and doctoral student Bogata Kardos.
Sub-groups
International collaboration
Global Childhoods research group, Ethiopia
Director Associate Professor Eyuil Abate Demissie
Kotebe University of Education
Global Childhoods research group New Zeeland
Director Professor Marek Tesar
The University of Auckland
Global Childhoods Research Hub, Australia
Director Professor Nicola Yelland
The University of Melbourne
Local seminar
The seminar is the research community of this theme and includes researchers and Ph. D. students with an interest in global perspectives on children and childhood. The seminar work includes analyses of literature, discussions of manuscripts written by the members of this theme and writing of research grant applications.