Children and Society

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate policy and practices relating to children.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of different theoretical frameworks in understanding children and childhood
• Apply different conceptual approaches to understand the position of children.
• Develop transferrable and generic skills of critical thinking, essay writing.
• Critically compare and contrast different perspectives in relation to children and childhood.

This module will provide an introduction to the key theoretical frameworks and concepts in understanding children and childhood and the application of different approaches in policy-making.

The module will also examine contemporary issues related to children, such as children and migration, child labour, child abduction and trafficking in terms of understandings of children and childhood.

The lectures will be organized in four blocks:

1) Theorising childhood: the first block of the module will provide an overview of the key theoretical frameworks and concepts used to study children and childhood.

2) Contemporary debates: this block of the module will focus on contemporary issues and current debates on childhood studies. Topics will include: child labour, child abduction and trafficking, children and migration, etc.

3) Policy and practices: this block will examine the impact and consequences of some of the policy and practices concerning children i.e. children and work; child abuse;

4) Researching children: this block will introduce some of the cutting edge research on children and research ethics.

Lecture, seminar

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.