The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies

Editor: Cook, Daniel Thomas
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: Sage UK

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-52-972182-9
Category: Social Sciences
Image Count: 13
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood.

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Table of Contents

  • Reader's Guide
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • A
  • ABC Books
  • Abortion
  • Addams, Jane
  • ADHD. See Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Adolescence
  • Adolescence, History of
  • Adolescent Pregnancy
  • Adoption, History of
  • Adoption, Transnational
  • Adoption, Transracial
  • Adultism
  • After-School Centers
  • Age
  • Age Assessment, in Migration
  • Age Compression
  • Age of Consent
  • Ageism
  • Agency
  • AIDS Orphans
  • Andersen, Hans Christian
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Anticipatory Socialization
  • Anti-colonial Movements, Role of Children
  • Antislavery Movement, Role of Children
  • Apprenticeship
  • Apps (Mobile Applications)
  • Ariès, Philippe
  • Artificial Insemination
  • Assent, Children's, in Research
  • Asylum, Children as Seekers of
  • Attachment Theory
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Autism, Child Development, and Theory
  • Autism and Neurodiversity
  • Autonomy
  • B
  • Babies’ Rights
  • Baby, Social Construction of
  • Baby Farms
  • Babysitting, U.S. History of
  • Baptism
  • Barbie Doll
  • Bechstein, Ludwig. See Grimm Brothers (The Brothers Grimm)
  • Beings and Becomings, Children as
  • Benjamin, Walter
  • Bernstein, Basil
  • Best Interests Principle
  • Bettelheim, Bruno
  • Better Baby Contests
  • Bilingualism and Multilingualism
  • Binet, Alfred
  • Binge-Watching
  • Biopolitics of Childhood
  • Birth
  • Birth Control
  • Birth Order
  • Blank Slate, Children as. See Tabula Rasa
  • Boarding Schools
  • Borders, National
  • Bourdieu, Pierre
  • Bowlby, John
  • Boyhood
  • Boyhood Studies
  • Breastfeeding
  • Bronfenbrenner, Urie
  • Brownies’ Book
  • Buddhism
  • Bullying
  • Bullying, Genealogy of the Concept
  • Bullying and Parents
  • Bullying and Teachers
  • Bullying in Schools
  • C
  • Capitalism and Childhood
  • Care, Feminist Ethic of
  • Care, Institutional
  • Caregivers, Children as
  • Care-Work
  • Carroll, Lewis
  • Child
  • Child Abuse. See Abuse and Child Abuse
  • Child Actors in Film and Television
  • Child Actors in Theater
  • Child and Youth Activism
  • Child as Method
  • Child as Other/Stranger
  • Child Attachment Interviews
  • Child Beauty Pageants
  • Child Consumption: A Vygotskian Perspective
  • Child Depravity
  • Child Domestic Work
  • Child Labor
  • Child Labor in Europe, History of
  • Child Marriage
  • Child Mortality
  • Child Neglect
  • Child Pornography
  • Child Pregnancy
  • Child Prodigy
  • Child Prostitution, Sex Work
  • Child Psychology, Clinical. See Clinical Psychology and Clinical Child Psychology
  • Child Savers/Child-Saving Movement, U.S. History
  • Child Sexual Abuse and Pedophilia
  • Child Soldiers
  • Child Study
  • Child Suicide
  • Child Trafficking
  • Child Welfare
  • Childcare
  • Child-Centered/Child-Led Research
  • Child-Centered Design
  • Child-Friendly, Concept of
  • Child-Friendly Cities
  • Child-Headed Households
  • Childhood
  • Childhood, Anthropology of
  • Childhood and Architecture
  • Childhood and Nature
  • Childhood as Figuration
  • Childhood Embodiment/Embodied
  • Childhood Identity Constructions
  • Childhood in Western Philosophy
  • Childhood Insanity
  • Childhood Nostalgia
  • Childhood Poverty
  • Childhood Publics
  • Childhood Representations in Media and Advertising
  • Childhood Studies
  • Childhoods and Time, Philosophical Perspectives
  • Childing
  • Childism
  • Children and Art
  • Children and Borders—Cyprus
  • Children and Borders—Palestine
  • Children and International Development
  • Children and Nationalism
  • Children and Social Policy
  • Children and Technology
  • Children and the Law, United States
  • Children and U.S. Adoption Literature
  • Children and Youth in Prison
  • Children as Citizens
  • Children as Competent Social Actors
  • Children as Consumers
  • Children as Legal Subjects
  • Children as Philosophers
  • Children as Photographers
  • Children as Political Subjects
  • Children as Victims
  • Children as Witnesses
  • Children as Workers
  • Children at Risk
  • Children in Postcolonial Literature
  • Children in Romantic Literature and Thought
  • Children Living With HIV in Africa
  • Children Who Murder
  • Children's Bodies
  • Children's Bureau, United States
  • Children's Consumer Culture. See Children as Consumers; Child Consumption: A Vygotskyan Perspective; Consumer Socialization
  • Children's Culture Industry
  • Children's Cultures
  • Children's Drawings and Psychological Development
  • Children's Geographies
  • Children's Hospitals
  • Children's Libraries in the United States
  • Children's Literature
  • Children's Mobility
  • Children's Museums
  • Children's Music Industry, U.S.
  • Children's Ombudspersons/Commissioners for Children's Rights
  • Children's Perspectives
  • Children's Radio
  • Children's Rights
  • Children's Rights, Critiques of
  • Children's Rights, Historical Perspective on
  • Children's Social Participation, Models of
  • Children's Television, U.S. History
  • Children's Time Use
  • Children's Voices
  • Children's Work
  • Christianity
  • Citizenship
  • Classroom Discipline
  • Clinical Psychology and Clinical Child Psychology
  • Clothing, Children's
  • Colonialism and Childhood
  • Columbine (High School) Massacre, U.S.
  • Communion, Holy
  • Community of Learners
  • Concerted Cultivation, Parenting Style
  • Conduct of Everyday Life
  • Consent, Children's, in Research
  • Consent, Sexual
  • Consumer Socialization
  • Corporal Punishment
  • Counseling Children
  • CRC. See United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
  • Critical Children's Literature Studies
  • Critical Legal Studies
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Critical Realism
  • Critical Theory, the Child in
  • CRT. See Critical Race Theory
  • Cultural Capital
  • Cultural Politics of Childhood
  • Cyberbullying
  • D
  • Darwin, Charles
  • Day Care
  • Death, Children's Conceptions of
  • Death Rates, Children's, Historical
  • Deleuze, Gilles
  • Depression
  • Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Developmentality
  • Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
  • Dewey, John
  • Diaspora Childhoods
  • Dickens, Charles
  • Different Childhoods
  • Digital Childhoods
  • Digital Literacy
  • Digital Media
  • Digital Mobile Technologies
  • Disabilities
  • Disabilities, Children With—Global South
  • Disability Studies
  • Disability Studies in Education
  • Discipline and Childhood
  • Disney
  • Distributed Violence
  • Dockar-Drysdale, Barbara
  • Dolls, U.S. History of
  • Dolto, Françoise
  • Domestic Chores
  • Domestic Violence, Children's Experiences of
  • Domestic Workers, Children as
  • E
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Early Marriage
  • Ecological Approaches. See Bronfenbrenner, Urie
  • Ecology and Environmental Education
  • Education
  • Education, Child-Centered
  • Education, Co-operative
  • Education, Inclusive
  • Education and Nationalism in Late Imperial China
  • Education for All (EFA)
  • Education Versus Care
  • Emerging Adulthood
  • Emotion Regulation (Children)
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Enabling Education Network (EENET)
  • Enlightenment and the Child
  • Ennew, Judith
  • Erikson, Erik
  • Ethics
  • Ethnicity
  • Ethnography
  • Eugenics
  • Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
  • F
  • Fairy Tales in the Western Tradition
  • Family
  • Family Photography
  • Fashion, Children's
  • Fatherhood
  • Fathers/Fathering
  • Federal Indian Boarding Schools, U.S. Architecture of
  • Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
  • Feminism
  • Feral Children
  • Fetal Personhood
  • Film, the Child in
  • Folklore, Children's
  • Food Studies and Children
  • Foster Care, U.S.
  • Foster Parenting
  • Frank, Anne
  • Freire, Paulo
  • Freud, Anna
  • Freud, Sigmund
  • Froebel, Friedrich
  • G
  • Gay and Lesbian Parenting
  • Gender
  • Gender Identity
  • Gender Independent Children
  • Generation Gap
  • Generational Approach
  • Generational Conflict
  • Generationing
  • Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child 1924
  • Gesell, Arnold
  • Gifted Children
  • Girl Power
  • Girlhood
  • Girlhood Studies
  • Girling
  • Girls
  • Global North Childhoods
  • Global Politics of Childhood
  • Global Politics of Orphanhood
  • Global South Childhoods
  • Global Womb
  • Globalization of Childhood
  • Governmentality
  • Grimm Brothers (The Brothers Grimm)
  • Growing Sideways. See Queer Childhoods
  • Growth
  • H
  • Habitus
  • Hall, Granville Stanley
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Hidden Adult, in Literature
  • Hinduism
  • Hine, Lewis
  • Historical Methods
  • History of Childhood
  • Home Learning Environment
  • Homeschooling
  • Homeless Children and Youth
  • Homes, Institutional
  • Hope
  • Hug-Hellmuth, Hermine
  • Human Capital, Child as
  • Human Capital Theory
  • Human Development Index
  • Human Rights
  • I
  • Identity
  • Imaginary Companions
  • Immigrant Children
  • Immigration
  • In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
  • Inclusion in Schools
  • Indigenous Childhoods
  • Infancy
  • Infant Mortality Rate. See Child Mortality
  • Infantilization
  • Innocence
  • Institutionalization of Childhood
  • Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
  • Intelligence Testing
  • Intergenerational Learning
  • Intergenerational Relations
  • Interiority
  • International Child Saving
  • International Child Welfare Organizations
  • International Children's Aid Organizations
  • International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs)
  • Interpretive Reproduction
  • Intersectionality
  • Interviews
  • iPad
  • Isaacs, Susan
  • Islam
  • J
  • Judaism
  • Juvenile Courts
  • Juvenile Courts, U.S. History
  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • Juvenile Justice, International
  • Juvenocracy/Juvenocratic Spaces
  • K
  • Key, Ellen
  • Kindergarten
  • Klein, Melanie
  • Korczak, Janusz
  • L
  • La Leche League
  • Lacan, Jacques
  • Language, Social, and Cultural Aspects
  • Language Learning/Acquisition
  • League of Nations
  • Least-Adult Role in Research
  • Lego
  • Life Mode Interview
  • Lindgren, Astrid
  • Literacy/Literacies
  • Literature, Golden Age
  • Literature for Children. See Children's Literature
  • Locke, John
  • M
  • Mannheim, Karl
  • Material Culture, Children's
  • Media, Children and
  • Medicalization of Childhood
  • Mental Health, Child
  • Mid-day Meal
  • Militarization
  • Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
  • Milner, Marion
  • Miniature Adulthood
  • Minority Group, Children as
  • Modernity
  • Montessori, Maria
  • Montessori Schools
  • Moral Development, Cultural-Developmental Perspective
  • Mothers/Motherhood
  • Moveable Books
  • Mulberry Bush School
  • N
  • Narrative Research Method
  • Narratives, Children's
  • National Identity
  • Native American Children, Religion and Spirituality
  • Natural Growth, Parenting Style
  • Nature Versus Culture
  • Nature Versus Nurture
  • Neurocognitive Development
  • Neuroscience
  • Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
  • Numeracy Learning in Early Childhood
  • O
  • Obesity
  • One-Child Policy, China
  • Opie, Iona and Peter
  • Orphan Care
  • Orphan Homes
  • Orphan Trains
  • Orphans
  • Orphans and Orphanages as Childcare in the United States
  • Out-of-School Children
  • P
  • Paganism
  • Parental Advice Literature
  • Parenthood
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Children
  • Parenting Studies
  • Parenting Styles, History of
  • Parents of Children With Disabilities
  • Parents With Disabilities
  • Participation, Protection, and Provision Rights (Three Ps), UNCRC
  • Participation Rights, UNCRC
  • Participatory Action Research
  • Participatory Research Methods
  • Pedagogy
  • Pediatrics
  • Pedophilia. See Child Sexual Abuse and Pedophilia
  • Peer Culture
  • Peer Group
  • Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
  • Peter Pan
  • Philosophy, the Child in
  • Philosophy for Children
  • Photo-Elicitation, Research Method of
  • Photovoice, Research Method of
  • Piaget, Jean
  • Piaget's Interview Methods: From Clinical to Critical
  • Picture Books
  • Play, Theories of
  • Play Therapy and Autism
  • Playground Movement, U.S. History
  • Playgrounds
  • Playrooms
  • Pocket Money
  • Political Geographies of Youth
  • Political Rights of Children
  • Popularity
  • Popularity, Social Media and
  • Popularity and Gender
  • Postcolonial Childhoods
  • Posthumanism and Childhood
  • Postman, Neil
  • Postmodern Childhoods
  • Power Relations in Research
  • Pregnancy
  • Priceless Child
  • Private Schools
  • Professional Conversations With Children
  • Protection Rights, UNCRC
  • Provision Rights, UNCRC
  • Psy Disciplines
  • Psychoanalysis, the Child in
  • Psychosocial Studies
  • Puberty
  • Q
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Queer Childhoods
  • Queer Children, Representations of
  • Queer Studies
  • R
  • Race and Childhood in U.S. Context
  • Racial Formation
  • Racial Innocence, Child and (U.S. History)
  • Racism
  • Reality Television
  • Recapitulation Theory
  • Reflexivity
  • Refugees
  • Reich, Wilhelm
  • Relational Violence
  • Religion and Children
  • Representations of Childhood in Early China
  • Reproductive Choice
  • Residential Child Care
  • Resilience
  • Restavek
  • Riot Grrrls
  • Rites of Passage
  • Roma Children
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  • S
  • Same-Sex Parenting
  • Save the Children
  • School Desegregation, U.S.
  • School Dress Codes
  • School Readiness
  • School Story, The
  • School Uniforms
  • School Violence
  • Schooling
  • Schooling, Gender, and Race
  • Scouting, Boys
  • Scouting, Girls
  • Sea Hospitals
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Starvation. See Anorexia Nervosa
  • Sesame Street
  • Sex Education, Psychoanalysis in
  • Sexual Citizenship
  • Sexual Exploitation of Children
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Sexualities Education
  • Sexuality and Childhood
  • Sibling Rivalry
  • Slavery, United States
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • Social Exclusion and Bullying
  • Social Inclusion
  • Social Media, Children's Use of. See Digital Media; Digital Mobile Technologies; Media, Children and
  • Social Welfare Regimes
  • Social Work
  • Socialization
  • Socialization Paradigm
  • Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • Sociology of Childhood
  • Special Education
  • Spencer, Herbert
  • Spielrein, Sabina
  • Spinoza, Baruch
  • Spock, Benjamin
  • Sport
  • Stage Theories of Development
  • Standpoint Theory
  • State Socialism, Childhood During
  • Steiner, Rudolf
  • Stepparents
  • Strange Situations. See Attachment Theory; Child Attachment Interviews
  • Street Children
  • Street Children, History of
  • Structural Violence
  • Subjective Well-Being
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
  • Sully, James
  • Sunday School
  • Supplementary Schools
  • Surrogacy
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Sutton-Smith, Brian
  • T
  • Tabula Rasa
  • Teddy Bear
  • Teen Magazines
  • Teenage Fathers, United Kingdom
  • Teenage Mothers. See Adolescence Pregnancy
  • Teenager Television Series
  • Teenagers
  • Temple, Shirley
  • Theme Parks
  • Time, Concept of, in Children
  • Time and Childhood
  • Toilet Training
  • Toys
  • Toys, Digital
  • Toys, History of
  • Toys, Optical
  • Toys, War
  • Toys and Child Development: Montessori, Piaget, and Vygotsky
  • Transgender Children
  • Transitions
  • Transnational Childhoods
  • Transnational Families
  • Transnational Migration
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Tween
  • U
  • Unaccompanied Minors, Migration
  • UNCRC. See United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
  • Undocumented Children
  • United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
  • United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Universalism
  • Universalization of Childhood
  • V
  • Violence
  • Virtual Materiality
  • Visual Methods
  • Vocational Education
  • Vulnerability of Children
  • Vygotskij, Lev. See Vygotsky, Lev; Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky, Lev)
  • Vygotsky, Lev
  • W
  • Waldorf Schools
  • War and War-Affected Children
  • Watson, John B.
  • Welfare State
  • Well-Being, Children's
  • White House Conferences on Children (US)
  • Wholeness Approach
  • Winnicott, Donald W.
  • Women and Children
  • Wordsworth, William
  • Workhouses
  • Working Children
  • Working Children's Movement
  • Y
  • Young Adult (YA) Literature
  • Young Lives Study
  • Young Offenders
  • Young-Girl, Theory of
  • Yousafzai, Malala
  • Youth
  • Youth and Representation in Popular Media, U.S.
  • Youth Clubs
  • Youth Culture
  • Youth Gangs
  • Youth Justice
  • Youth Sexting
  • Youth Studies
  • Youth Studies, Birmingham School
  • Youth Work
  • YouTube
  • Z
  • Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky, Lev)