The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies

Daniel Thomas Cook, Daniel Thomas Cook, Author

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781473942929
• eBook ISBN: 9781529721829
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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

Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over the last four decades

This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: 

Social Constructions of Childhood

Children's Rights

Politics/Representations/Geographies

Child-specific Research Methods

Histories of Childhood/Transnational Childhoods

Sociology/Anthropology of Childhood

Theories and Theorists

Key Concepts

This interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be of interest to students and researchers in:

Childhood Studies

Sociology/Anthropology

Psychology/Education

Social Welfare

Cultural Studies/Gender Studies/Disabilty Studies

Index

Entry titles and their page numbers are in bold. Page numbers preceded by 1: are in volume 1, page numbers preceded by 2: are in volume 2, page numbers preceded by 3: are in volume 3, page numbers preceded by 4: are in volume 4.

• AAI. See Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)
• Abbott, Grace, 1:7
• ABC books, 1:1–2. See also Children’s literature; Hidden adult, in literature; Moveable books; Picture books
• Abolitionists and children, 1:61–62
• Abortion, 1:2–6
  • decision making, 1:3–4
  • health and psychological consequences of, 1:5–6
  • negotiating access, 1:4
  • parental consent, 1:5
  • stigma, 1:4–5
  • See also Birth control; Fetal personhood; Reproductive choice; Sexual citizenship; Teenage mothers; Teenage pregnancy
• Aboud, Frances, 4:1344
• Absorbent mind, 3:1108
• Abuse and neglect, 1:380
• Academic perspectives
  • child study, 1:269–270
  • disability studies, 2:645–646
  • global north childhoods, 2:856–858
• ACEs. See Adverse Childhood Experiences study (ACEs)
• ACRWC. See African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC)
• ACS. See Adopted child syndrome (ACS)
• Active minority, 3:1100
• Active readers, 3:1081–1082
• Adair, John, 3:1240
• Adaptability, emotions, 2:714
• Addams, Jane, 1:6–8, 1:7 (fig.), 3:1038, 4:1661
  • biographical information, 1:6–8
  • and Dewey, 1:7
  • kindergarten, 3:1038
  • and Starr, 1:6, 3:1038
  • White House Conferences on children (US), 4:1661
• ADHD. See Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Adler, Alfred, 1:137, 4:1449
• Adler, Patricia, 3:1277
• Adler, Peter, 3:1277
• Adolescence, 1:8–11
  • discursive construction of, 1:8–9
  • mainstream views of, 1:9–10
  • Montessori and, 3:1105
  • study of, 1:10–11
• Adolescence, history of, 1:11–13
  • concept of, 1:11–12
  • scientific discovery of, 1:12–13
• Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (Hall), 1:12
• Adolescence (Hall), 1:9, 3:892, 4:1684
• Adolescence pregnancy, 1:14–17
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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Editorial Board
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editor
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• A
• ABC Books
• Abortion
• Addams, Jane
• ADHD
• Adolescence
• Adolescence, History of
• Adolesecent 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 Time Use
• Children’s Voices
• Children’s Work
• Children’s Television, U.S. History
• 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
• Critical Children’s Literature Studies
• Critical Legal Studies
• Critical Pedagogy
• Critical Race Theory
• Critical Realism
• Critical Theory, the Child in
• CRT
• 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 Mobile Technologies
• Digital Childhoods
• Digital Literacy
• Digital Media
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vygotsky, Lev
• W
• Waldorf Schools
• War and War-Affected Children
• Watson, John B.
• Welfare State
• Well-Being, Children’s
• White House Conferences on Children (U.S.)
• 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)
• Index