Conceptualizing childhood in scholarship and discourse

Abstract

This issue contains two original research reports, as well as the three keynote addresses delivered at the 10th Conference of the European Network of Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children (EuNet MERYC), which took place in February 2022. This editorial includes a discussion of how childhood appears to be conceptualized within this scholarship and how this conceptualization may contrast persistent deficit views of children. Recent US political discourse regarding children and education is cited as an example of such a deficit perspective on childhood.