Exploring Childhood and Youth

Victoria Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at The Open University, UK and is former Co-Director of the Children’s Research Centre. She is particularly interested in issues of identity, research methods, and children and young people's experiences living with a family health crisis.Naomi Holford is Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at The Open University, UK, and specialises in the area of gender, sexuality and class in childhood and youth.

'Exploring Childhood and Youth adds to a growing list of overview texts designed for students of childhood and youth studies. In their short introduction, editors Victoria Cooper and Naomi Holford frame the collection as an overview of core and emerging ideas relating to the study of childhood and youth, providing critical reflections on what they suggest is “now a firmly established academic field” (p. 1)... A core strength of the collection is the depth of engagement with disability across multiple chapters and from diverse perspectives.' - Kate Cairns, Teachers College Record

• 1. Fluid identities  2. Understanding the Unborn (or Becoming a Child)  3. Critical mental health  4. Everyday experiences of food  5. Everyday violence  6. Spaces for learning  7. Play  8. Young people, children and voluntourism  9. Experiences of poverty  10. How gender hurts, how gender matters  11.: Disability  12. Inequalities in further and higher education  13. The history of disabilities 14. Changing environments: plastic childhoods