Chapter 3 Theories and Methods for Transitioning Children
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Scholars contributing to the field of childhood studies first and foremost have an interest in children and their realities. Chapter 3 reviews this field and its breadth, including its interdisciplinary interest in sociological, psychological, biological, philosophical, and theoretical perspectives of children and their realities. It examines the field’s primary tenets and the shifts being made in recent years. The chapter argues that research in childhood studies—on children, the sociology of childhood, and child–adult relationality—reveals presuppositions that underlie a child–adult binary. It then examines developments in childist and child-oriented biblical scholarship, including a review of child-oriented biblical scholars whose work attends to Bat-Yiphtach. The perspectives offer new interpretive possibilities for Bat-Yiphtach’s narrative, including interpretations of her life stage (i.e., transitioning child) and agency.