Tornado activity: New London-area historical tornado activity is near Minnesota state average. It is 2% greater than the overall U.S. average. On 7/11/2008, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 18.4 miles away from the New London city center injured 2 people.
Childrenâs studies and the study of childhood is an interdisciplinary field of study in which pedagogy and research examines themes specific to infants, children, and adolescents. Several universities through the world are now starting to develop programs that focus only on the study of youth populations.
Whereas childhood studies claims as its major focus to understand childhood, the field of children's studies made from its beginnings the ontological claim that children must be viewed in their fullness as human beings, as a generational and social class in all their civil, political, social, economic and cultural dimensions.