Professorship of Theories and Methods of Childhood Studies

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

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.

  1. Adultismus und Diskriminierung entlang des jungen Alters

    Alberth, L. (Project manager, academic) & Siem, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.2431.12.25

    Project: Research

  2. English in Occupational Socialization and Professional Culture

    Alberth, L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2331.12.24

    Project: Teaching

  3. Stipendien für Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine

    Equit, C. (Project manager, academic) & Alberth, L. (Project manager, academic)

    10.05.2230.06.24

    Project: Research

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  1. Die "Energiewende" im Bundestag: ein politisches Transformationsprojekt?
  2. Nuclear accidents call for transdisciplinary nuclear energy research
  3. Gender, Space and Development: An Introduction to Concepts and Debates
  4. Disaggregated contributions of ecosystem services to human well-being
  5. Social Synergies, Tradeoffs, and Equity in Marine Conservation Impacts
  6. Restoration planning to guide Aichi targets in a megadiverse country
  7. Digital Workplace Transformation Triggers a Shift in the HR Identity
  8. Modelling and implementing business processes in distributed systems
  9. Sensory Perception of Non-Deuterated and Deuterated Organic Compounds
  10. Entrepreneurship in conventions, place-making, and spaces of creativity
  11. Spaces for challenging experiences, indeterminacy, and experimentation
  12. The communicative constitution of academic fields in the digital age
  13. The Low-Code Phenomenon: Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Research
  14. Land Take and Soil Sealing—Drivers, Trends and Policy (Legal) Instruments
  15. Systematic student-driven literature reviews in sustainability science
  16. Connecting curricula and competence through student learning journeys
  17. Maize rhizosphere priming: field estimates using 13C natural abundance
  18. Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
  19. Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory
  20. The Great Export Recovery in German Manufacturing Industries, 2009/2010
  21. Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Inter-Organizational Resources:
  22. Applying the principles of green engineering to cradle-to-cradle design
  23. Anke Wegner / Ǐnci Dirim (Hrsg.). Mehrsprachigkeit und Bildungsgerechtigkeit
  24. Für_Sorge – Vor_Sorge. Feministische Perspektiven auf ‚Natur/en‘ und Menschen
  25. Common opossum population density in an agroforestry system in Bolivia
  26. Climate-neutral and sustainable campus Leuphana University of Lueneburg