The Future of Childhood Studies and Children & Society
The Future of Childhood Studies and Children & Society
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童年研究和儿童的未来
DOI:
10.1111/chso.12345
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Stryker R
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作者:
Stryker R
As editors of Children & Society, we are delighted to introduce a themed section comprised of three papers by leading figures in childhood studies--Alan Prout, Spyros Spyrou, and Nigel Patrick Thomas. Their papers have been developed from keynote presentations at the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth’s 6th International Conference titled,“The Social, the Biological and the Material Child”, which took place at the University of Sheffield in July, 2016. As these authors reflect on the future of childhood studies as an interdisciplinary field, they have prompted us to consider how these ideas inform and inspire the future of Children & Society. Writing in 2010, in celebration of the journal’s 25th anniversary, the editors at that time-Allison James, Nigel Patrick Thomas and Martin Woodhead-highlighted ‘the wide range of academic disciplines and methodological approaches’ that are essential to the ethos of a journal which was founded, and continues to be published in collaboration with, the National Children’s Bureau, and which remains ‘committed to understanding the multiple relationships between children and young people and the changing societies they inhabit’(James and others, 2010, p. 5). As the current editors, we embody that diversity, through research that spans disciplines and methodologies, as well as varied social and geographical contexts. To reflect-rather than homogenise-that mix, the editors work together here to reflect on our hopes for the future of childhood studies to embrace and advance in at least four important areas–the