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. Anja Schrön

Publications

  1. Hannah Arendt
  2. Netzwerke des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses im Kontext der Erziehungswissenschaft
  3. The marketing and public affairs of sustainability
  4. Die Klima-Manipulateure
  5. Silence / Signification Degree Zero: Walter Benjamin’s Anti-Aesthetic of the Body
  6. Modi der Verständlichkeit und die Magie des Unverständlichen
  7. Bonitätsbeurteilung kleiner Unternehmen mit nicht-linearen Klassifikationsverfahren
  8. Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Energy
  9. Characterizing commercial cattle farms in Namibia
  10. Tropical cyclone losses in the USA and the impact of climate change
  11. Master-Studiengang "Schulpädagogik/Didaktik" für den Quereinstieg in den Lehrerberuf
  12. Rock culture and the Beatles' concepts of love
  13. Integration der Ressourceneffizienz in die Ökodesign Richtlinie
  14. Significantly Compressed Timeframe of Legislative Proceedings May Violate Parliamentarians’ Right to Deliberation
  15. Geschwisterkonstellation und Lesekompetenz
  16. Overview of the Aggregate Results of the International Corporate Sustainability Barometer
  17. Dispositive Konstruktion des touristischen Blicks
  18. Dynamische Mathematik - Bewegung beflügelt Verstehen
  19. Struktur - Institution - Regelmäßigkeit
  20. Auslegung der Auftragsabwicklungsstrategie
  21. Kompetenzorientiertes Fachwissen von Mathematik-Lehramtsstudierenden
  22. Synthese, Mimesis, Emergenz
  23. Kulturelle Lernorte für Schulklassen
  24. Courbets Zweifel an der Verlässlichkeit des Sehsinns
  25. Kreativität und ihre Bezahlung
  26. Politicized Transnationalism: The Visegrád Countries in the Refugee Crisis
  27. Borzik, Rolf
  28. Implementierung einer Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in den Kindergarten aus organisationaler Perspektive
  29. The Influence of Personality on Students‘ Career Decisiveness – A Comparison between Chinese and German Economics and Management Student
  30. Rise and Shine
  31. Gegenwart und Zukunft gestalten beginnt im Kindergarten
  32. Schulleitung - ein belastender Job?
  33. Über Kunst schreiben
  34. Teaching Terry McMillan's Short Fiction
  35. Welche Öffentlichkeiten?
  36. The effects of windthrow on plant species richness in a Central European beech forest