The course is structured around the following thematic areas:
1. Childhood as a historical, social and cultural construction and its diversity in time and space
2. Children as social agents
3. Theoretical approaches to childhood
• Classical and new theories of socialization
• Theories of developmental psychology
• New sociology of childhood
• Anthropology of Childhood
4. Methodological approaches to childhood
• Ethnographic research with children
• Child-centered and non-child-centered methodology
• Ethical considerations in research with children
5.Ethnographic Examples of Childhood
• Children and the school
• Children and work
• Children on the move
6. Social control-Discipline-Children
• School discipline
• Social media and children
• Children and technology
7. Children’s rights
• Children as a value
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Child protection
• Child and political participation
8. Childhood in the 21st century