No kidding. The introduction to (new) childhood studies 24-PIE-ICS

Week 1: HISTORY: A brief history of changing social and cultural constructions of childhood.
Week 2: HISTORY: Starting points – how childhood became the subject of social sciences and humanities.
Week 3: THEORY: From “old” to“new” sociology of childhood – traditional theories, dominant models, and the new paradigm.
Week 4: THEORY: Socialisation and its discontents
Week 5: THEORY: Agency and its discontents
Week 6: CASE STUDIES: The disappearance and re-appearance of childhood, or how to navigate through the crises of childhood
Week 7: CASE STUDIES: The space of childhood (children’s geographies, global, urban, rural childhoods, cyberspace of childhood, childhood in private and public spaces)
Week 8: CASE STUDIES: The "childhoods" of childhood (queer childhoods)
Week 9: CASE STUDIES: The “childhoods” of childhood (disabled children’s childhood studies)
Week 10: CASE STUDIES: The politics of childhood (control and the discourse of care, children’s rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child)
Week 11: CASE STUDIES: Citizen child (theories and practices of children’s citizenship)
Week 12: CASE STUDIES: The child as an active social agency (theories and practices of children's participation)
Week 13: HOW TO: Methodology of childhood research. Ethics in research with children. Areas of research in childhood studies.
Week 14: CONCLUSIONS