Abstract

BARBOSA, Maria Carmen Silveira; DELGADO, Ana Cristina Coll  and  TOMAS, Catarina Almeida. Childhood studies, children's studies: what fields? What theories? What questions? What methods?. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2016, vol.41, n.1, pp.103-122. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v40i3.36351.

In this article, we perform a theoretical essay on the Childhood Studies and Children's Studies, since its inception until its organization as a field at the intersection between disciplines and questions about childhood and children. At first, we reflect on childhood and child concepts. Then, we place the beginnings of such studies, especially conceptual issues discussed in the early twentieth century, and then, we focus on the challenges of the New Children's and Childhood Studies, such as the links between knowledge and disciplines and the diversity of theoretical traditions. Since researches with small children are newer in this context, we propose some reflections regarding them, and we finalize the article with some challenges, like thinking the rigidity of the boundaries between generations and stages of childhood.

Keywords : Childhood; Children; Childhood Studies; Children's Studies.

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