Child and Youth Research
Research at the Department of Child and Youth Studies focuses on younger children, children and young people, and young adults in education and leisure time.
Children's and young people's perspectives and ways of negotiating and acting are of particular interest. Thus, Preschool, School and Schoolage Educare are examples of institutions where children's experiences and perspectives are examined.
Other important contexts where children's and young people's everyday lives and identity work are studied are, for example, the media, housing areas, families and associations. The adult children and young people they meet are also relevant to the research. Theories and methods are taken from the humanities and social sciences and based on interdisciplinary approaches.
There are two postgraduate subjects at Department of Child and Youth Studies: Child and Youth Studies and Early Childhood Education.
- Children and Young People's Living Conditions, Health / Well-being and Vulnerability
- Children and Young People’s Places and Movement
- Everyday Life, Culture and Communication in the Lives of Children and Young People
- Play, Care, Development and Learning in Preschool, School and School age educare
- Profession, Education and Practice Based Research
Children and Young People's Living Conditions, Health / Well-being and Vulnerability
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.
Children and Young People's Living Conditions, Health / Well-being and Vulnerability
Children and Young People’s Places and Movement
Here, inputs from different starting points - for example practical, theoretical, methodological or empirical - are used to study the places of children and young people. It can be physical places, digital places or imaginary and imagined places.
Children and Young People’s Places and Movement
Everyday Life, Culture and Communication in the Lives of Children and Young People
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.
Everyday Life, Culture and Communication in the Lives of Children and Young People
Play, Care, Development and Learning in Preschool, School and School age educare
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.
Play, Care, Development and Learning in Preschool, School and School age educare
