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. Bankaufsichtsrechtliche Anerkennung interner Kreditportfoliomodelle
  2. Praxisorientierte Weiterbildung zu nachhaltiger Regionalentwicklung
  3. Notions of justice held by stakeholders of the Newfoundland fishery
  4. Decline of an endangered amphibian during an extreme climatic event
  5. Keller, James A.: Problems of Evil and the Power of God, Aldershot 2007
  6. Sources of nitrogen heterocyclic PAHs (N-HETs) along a riverine course
  7. Governance of professional service firms: a configurational approach
  8. Übungsfall Strafrecht: Nox irae flagrantis - Kulturkampf im Sauerland
  9. The underlying factors in the uptake of electricity demand response
  10. Modeling of microstructural pattern formation in crystal plasticity
  11. Learning Analytics: Neue Wege der Erfolgsmessung von (E-)Learning (Teil2)
  12. Der Vorschlag der Europäischen Kommission zu einer Monti-II-Verordnung
  13. Artikel 24 EUV [Zuständigkeit; Verfahren; Pflichten der Mitgliedstaaten]
  14. Grenzüberschreitung: Verfassungsentwicklung und Internationalisierung
  15. Entrepreneurship in conventions, place-making, and spaces of creativity
  16. Spaces for challenging experiences, indeterminacy, and experimentation
  17. Professionalisierung in der performativ-künstlerischen Bildungsarbeit
  18. Nuclear accidents call for transdisciplinary nuclear energy research
  19. Internet-Supported Sustainability Reporting - Expectations and Reality
  20. Networking als zentrale Schlüsselqualifikation für Gründungsvorhaben
  21. A comparison of current practices in German manufacturing industries
  22. New Venture Investing Trajectories - A Large Scale Longitudinal Study
  23. A simple fuzzy controller for robot manipulators with bounded inputs
  24. Global Governance and the Interplay of Coordination and Contestation
  25. Abseits der verfassungsgerichtlichen Arenen - informale Kommunikation
  26. Effects of season and man-made changes on baseflow and flow recession
  27. Novel Magnesium Nanocomposite for Wire-Arc Directed Energy Deposition
  28. Prospective Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Nanosilver T-shirts
  29. Aktuelle Trends im Key Account Management in der Konsumgüterindustrie
  30. Beeinflusst umweltbewusstes Marketing das Reiseverhalten der Zukunft ?
  31. Welche Erfahrungen haben wir gemacht und was haben wir daraus gelernt?
  32. Partizipation von Leistungserbringern - Eine mikroökonomische Analyse