Childhoods Today

Past Issues

• Volume 5, Issue 2: Special Issue on Re-Exploring Childhood Studies
  • Re-Exploring Childhood Studies by Anandini Dar and Patrick Cox
  • ‘Little Children are Constructed of Malleable Material’: Conceptions of Children and Childhood in Anna Chapin Ray’s Playground Books by Deborah Valentine
  • Children Learning to Negotiate Unwritten Social Rules through Play by Suzanne Eyerman
  • Playing with Pixels: Youth, Identity, and Virtual Play Spaces by Chana Etengoff
  • Designed to Control, Destined to Fail? Disciplinary Practices at an Inner-City Elementary School in the United States by Anne Scheer
  • Connection and Disillusion: The Moral Economy of Volunteer Tourism in Cusco, Peru by Aviva Sinervo
• Volume 5, Issue 1:
  • ‘Talk to me as a teenager’: Experiences of Friendship for Disabled Teenagers who Have Little or No Speech by Mary Wickenden
  • Contemporary British Chinese Parenting: Beyond Cultural Values by Carmen Lau Clayton
  • Changes of Position Cause Changes of Relation: Insights for Reflexive Ethnographic Research with Children by Tadesse Jaleta Jirata
• Volume 4, Issue 1:
  • School Design: Researching Children’s Views by Rokhshid Ghaziani
  • The ‘Stranger Danger’ Issue in Japanese Neighbourhoods: Children’s Perceptions, Experiences and Drawings by Riela Provi Drianda
• Volume 3, Issue 2:
  • Finding the voices of children and youth in street situations in Rio de Janeiro by Arianna Cisneros and Mariana Menezes Neumann
  • Between social and political: children as political selves by Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
  • “Improper” participatory child research: Morally bad, or not? Reflections from the “Reconstructing Cambodian Childhoods” study by Melina T. Czymoniewicz-Klippel
• Volume 3, Issue 1:
  • Rooting Respect: Young People’s Perspectives on Respect, Responsibility and Government in the Criminal Courts by Alexandra Cox
  • Estrella – a gifted narrative by Kjerstin Dahlblom
  • The Power in the Letter: Policies, Politics and the Youth-related Agenda for the ‘Building Schools for the Future’ Programme by Maria Patsarika
  • Ethics in Child Research: Children’s Agency and Researchers’ ‘Ethical Radar’ by Lovisa Skånfors
• Volume 2, Issue 2:
  • Rethinking Vulnerability: European Asylum Policy Harmonization and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors by Annamaria Enenajor
  • "Today I was a Mittagskind" – a Small-Scale Study of the Home Literacy Practices of a Four-Year-Old Multilingual Girl by Misti Savage
  • Childhood and Rights: Reflections on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by Catarina Tomás
  • Is respect an obstacle to or a facilitator of child participation? A study of children’s participation in the cultural context of Madagascar by Milfrid Tonheim
  • Le respect est-il un obstacle ou un facilitateur à la participation de l’enfant ? Une étude de la participation de l’enfant dans le contexte culturel de Madagascar. by Milfrid Tonheim
• Volume 2, Issue 1:
  • Trapped between disparate worlds? The livelihoods, socialisation and school contexts of rural children in Ethiopia by Tatek Abebe
  • Children’s migration for work in Bangladesh: The extra- and intra-household factors that shape ‘choice’ and ‘decision-making’ by Karin Heissler
  • Interviewing young children: protocol, practice and perception in police interviews by Sarah Krähenbühl
• Volume 1, Issue 2:
  • Positive and negative: an exploration of the impact of the personal dispositions of early years practitioners on their teaching mathematics to young children by Joy Chalke
  • Learning at the Centre—Under What Terms?: How does the convergence of care and education terminology in the Irish early childhood sector present an opportunity for learning at the centre of policy? by Maria Gallo
  • An Autobiography of Child Work: a reflexive account by Birendra Raj Giri
• Volume 1, Issue 1:
  • Trapped between disparate worlds? The livelihoods, socialisation and school contexts of rural children in Ethiopia by Tatek Abebe
  • An Ethnography of Children's Participation in Domestic Work in Nicosia by Loucas Antoniou
  • Looking Forward: unaccompanied asylum-seekers leaving care by Bianka Atlas
  • Researching Children's Morality: developing research methods that allow children's involvement in discourses relevant to their everyday lives by Sam Frankel
  • Editorial by Pat Gordon-Smith
• Special Issue,
  • Editorial by Pat Gordon-Smith
  • The morality of young children in their early years setting by Pat Gordon-Smith
  • The realities of displaced children’s lives in Serbia and challenges for research (part 1) by Jessie Crawford
  • The realities of displaced children’s lives in Serbia and challenges for research (part 2) by Jessie Crawford
  • Children’s social competence and school environments (Part 1) by Siân Hickman
  • Children’s social competence and school environments (Part 2) by Siân Hickman
  • Participation in practice: an evaluation of the primary school council as a participatory tool by Helen Veitch