Collectively, the editors bring together a strong profile in childhood and youth studies, with a range of expertise in research, curriculum development and policy and practice fields. Our approach is interdisciplinary, international and combines theoretical sophistication with applied know-how.
Our main aim is to ensure the continued success of Children and Society as the first choice publication for leading scholars, policymakers and practitioners concerned with the birth to 18 age group.
Shifting patterns of inequality point to a growing diversity in the experience of what it is to be a child. Some of the big challenges that we expect the journal to engage over the next five years include:
- Building dialogue between developed and developing world perspectives
- Making sense of the commercialisation of childhood and youth
- Responding to trans-nationalism
- Engaging with developments within the natural sciences and the influence of scientific discourse on the field
The editors are working with NCB and the publisher Wiley Blackwell to find new ways of bringing together authors and audiences - using the journal website and new social media tools such as podcasts and videocasts as well as holding events. So keep an eye on the journal website for new developments: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1099-0860.
Rachel Thomson, professor of childhood and youth studies, Sussex University
