中文摘要：

20世纪90年代之前,儿童群体在地理学研究中一直处于边缘地位。随着来自地理学学科内部以及社会科学领域的合力推动,地理学家开始关注童年的社会空间以及儿童的地方体验。《儿童地理学——玩耍·生活·学习》一书的诞生及专刊《Children’s Geographies》的创立,表明儿童地理学作为一门新兴学科已然形成并日渐壮大。文章追溯了儿童地理学诞生的学科背景,并通过对其专刊《Children’s Geographies》及地理界三大权威期刊自创刊以来的相关文献进行分析,梳理了西方儿童地理学的两大研究议题：1）童年的社会空间：公共空间、学校和家庭中成人的规训与儿童的抵抗;2）全球化背景下多样化的童年：流动与差异。并在此基础上提出国内儿童地理学可能的研究方向。

英文摘要：

Until the 1990s, the children were marginalized in the geographical research. With the drive of both human geography and social science, the childhood＇s social space and the children＇s place experience draw human geographers＇ focus. The publication of Children＇s Geographies： playing, living, learning and the foundation of the journal- Children＇s Geographies indicated that children＇s geographies, as a newly-built branch, had come into being and was developing day by day. This review traces back the academic background to the formation of children＇s geographies, and analyses the concerned papers in the journal of Children＇s Geographies and other three authority journals in the geographic field. After the detailed review, the authors find out two main research topics： 1） the social space of childhood： the adult＇s discipline and children＇s resistance in public space, school and home; 2） the diversified childhood under the globalization： mobility and difference. Based on this review, the paper proposes the potential research trends in China, aiming at the localization of children＇s geographies and the integration with the western research.