Professorship of Theories and Methods of Childhood Studies

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In everyday life, children are seen primarily as beings in need of education and learning who naturally lack experience and knowledge. However, this not only underestimates the practical achievements that children contribute to the maintenance of everyday order, but also hides essential aspects of the social organization of childhood.
 
In contrast, we essentially understand children as an age group characterized by social inequalities, who are assigned fewer rights, duties, and resources compared to others (primarily adults, but also older children or adolescents) – regardless of the actual contributions children perform in everyday life.
 
As a category of social inequality, childhood cannot be thought of in a homogeneous way, neither historically nor globally, but remains bound to socially varying structures of growing up. Accordingly, childhood is understood as a highly institutionalized life phase, whose definition and shaping by school, family, and expert entrepreneurships structure the objective chances for future life courses of young people, but which also make up a central element of social order in general.
 
Hence, our focus is the social organization of childhood by its respective institutions (especially professions) as well as the resulting consequences for involved groups of actors, foremost the children themselves. Our research is concerned with the degree to which children are taken into account in child protection, by the knowledge about children that is collected (or lacking) and made available and used (for example, about their experiences of violence and in the pandemic), and by the spatial-material structuring of childhoods.

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  1. Drawing a Picture of Citizen Entrepreneurship
  2. Studium fundamentale an der Universität St. Gallen
  3. Unterrichtsdiagnostik – Voraussetzung für die Verbesserung der Unterrichtsqualität
  4. Meeting the Future
  5. Die unheimliche Verkehrung.
  6. Quecksilberfreisetzung aus abgeschiedenem Amalgam nach Anwendung unterschiedlicher Desinfektionsmittel
  7. Interoperability of mineral sustainability initiatives
  8. Gender Mainstreaming in der Forschung zur berufsbegleitenden akademischen Weiterbildung
  9. Netzwerke des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses im Kontext der Erziehungswissenschaft
  10. Institutional challenges for space activities in Europe
  11. Music City
  12. Die Eigenverbrauchsregelung in § 33 Abs. 2 EEG nach der Photovoltaik-Novelle 2010
  13. IMAGE: Development of a European curriculum for the training of prevention managers
  14. Digitalization, structuration and agency in organizations concerned with the placement of refugee parents in institutions of early childhood care and education
  15. Sichtweisen zu Lern- und Leistungsschwierigkeiten im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule
  16. The marketing and public affairs of sustainability
  17. Sharing Economy
  18. Das Emotionsspektrum von Autofahrern im Straßenverkehr
  19. Silence / Signification Degree Zero: Walter Benjamin’s Anti-Aesthetic of the Body
  20. Die Bedeutung transdisziplinärer Kooperationen an Hochschulen
  21. Bonitätsbeurteilung kleiner Unternehmen mit nicht-linearen Klassifikationsverfahren
  22. Greenpeace Nachhaltigkeitsbarometer 2015
  23. Hybrid life cycle assessment of an onshore wind farm including direct and indirect services
  24. Messung und Steuerung unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit
  25. Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Energy