Childhood Studies: Home

Childhood Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines children's lives, experiences, and cultures from multiple perspectives. It challenges traditional developmental approaches by viewing children as active social actors rather than passive recipients of socialization.

• Children's Health and Wellbeing
• Children's Play and Material Culture
• Children's Rights and Citizenship
• Digital Childhoods
• Education and Childhood
• Gender, Sexuality, and Childhood
• Global and Postcolonial Childhoods

• Social Construction of Childhood
• Children's Rights and Agency
• Childhood & Intersectionality
• Global Childhoods
• Child-centered Research Methods

• Anthropology of Childhood
• Child Welfare
• Children's Geographies
• Education Studies
• Girlhood/Boyhood Studies
• Global Childhoods
• History of Children and Youth
• Sociology of Childhood
• Youth Studies

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Course Reserves 

Course Reserves are books and other materials that your professors have placed in a special "reserve" collection in the library for your use.  The Course Reserve Collection is located at the Library Services Desk on the library's first floor. The collection consists of materials either owned by Maxwell Library or by faculty members.  Students may borrow these materials for set amounts of time as specified by their professors.