An introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and analyzing childhood and youth, including history of childhood, and children’s literature research, this course considers the role of childhood in human life, its construction across different periods and regions, different disciplinary perspectives on childhood, and contemporary approaches to deepening the understanding of children and their own views. By examining key critical texts, it considers childhood through multiple disciplinary perspectives, as well as children’s own co-creation of the performance of childhood and children’s voice, agency, activism, and rights.
Sara Pankenier Weld
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