In the area, children and young people are studied in different cultural, social and spatial contexts such as family, preschool, school, leisure center, association life and other institutional contexts.
This includes education and policy-making processes with children and young people as the target group, as well as how children and young people create meaning around such processes in their everyday lives and thus shape their own lives and conditions as well as their own participation and identity work.
In the area, play, aesthetic learning processes, teaching, pedagogical and didactic methods as well as how they are affected by and affect children's and young people's development and learning are both investigated and developed. Children and young people are thus studied both as actors with the opportunity to influence and as dependent on the structures and contexts in which they find themselves.