In the area, children and young people are studied in different cultural, social and spatial contexts such as preschool, leisure center, school, family, association life and other institutional contexts. Here, children's and young people's values, worlds of ideas, rights and obligations are examined.
This includes cultural production with, by, and for children and young people, as well as the portrayal of children and young people in different artistic expressions and children and young people's own different cultures and identity creation.
Politics, education and policy-making processes with children and young people as a target group are also examined, 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. The starting point is to see children as actors with opportunities for participation, and at the same time depending on the structures and contexts in which they are located