Researchers in a range of fields have acknowledged that childhood is a construct emerging from
modernist perspectives that have not always benefited those who are younger. The purposes of
the Rethinking Childhood series are to provide critical locations for scholarship that
challenges the universalization of childhood and introduces new reconceptualized and critical
spaces from which opportunities and possibilities are generated for those who are younger.
Diverse histories and cultures are considered of major importance as well as issues of
critical social justice.
