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Learning Methods
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Module Offerings
4204ECS-JAN-MTP
Aims
To enable students to develop their knowledge and understanding of children and childhood from a range of perspectives, and to reflect on sociological, historical, cultural, philosophical economic and political influences.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Review different perspectives of children and childhood through the use of theoretical, philosophical and conceptual frameworks, ideas and ideologies.
2.
Reflect on the constructs and nature of childhood across a range of times, places, cultures, and socio-economic influences.
3.
Summarise different policy influences that have shaped views of children and childhood and key issues impacting on the lives of children
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Personal histories – reflecting on own experiences of childhood Models and social theories of childhood Historical cultural, philosophical, economic and political influences. Childhood in mediaeval and Renaissance times UNCRC / Children's rights The beginnings of developing a critically reflective approach Changing images of childhood The Children’s Charter, Children Acts / First reforms and the welfare state Victorian Childhood and industrialization 20th and 21st century childhood - play Disappearing Childhood / The media’s representation of childhood Signs of Childhood in the local environment Contemporary priorities in early childhood today
Personal histories – reflecting on own experiences of childhood Models and social theories of childhood Historical cultural, philosophical, economic and political influences. Childhood in mediaeval and Renaissance times UNCRC / Children's rights The beginnings of developing a critically reflective approach Changing images of childhood The Children’s Charter, Children Acts / First reforms and the welfare state Victorian Childhood and industrialization 20th and 21st century childhood - play Disappearing Childhood / The media’s representation of childhood Signs of Childhood in the local environment Contemporary priorities in early childhood today
Module Overview:
This module enables you to develop your knowledge and understanding of children and childhood from a range of perspectives, and to reflect on sociological, historical, cultural, philosophical economic and political influences.
This module enables you to develop your knowledge and understanding of children and childhood from a range of perspectives, and to reflect on sociological, historical, cultural, philosophical economic and political influences.
Additional Information:
The revised benchmark statements (QAA, 2022) for Early Childhood Studies include an evaluation of competing positions in relation to the construction of babies and young children and childhood by different subjects, societal agents, place and culture. This module introduces the key perspectives on childhood and children by exploring sociological, historical, cultural, philosophical economic and political influences and the issues that currently impact on children lives and the module provides a scaffold for the level 5 module Global inequalities and unequal childhoods (5203ECS).
The revised benchmark statements (QAA, 2022) for Early Childhood Studies include an evaluation of competing positions in relation to the construction of babies and young children and childhood by different subjects, societal agents, place and culture. This module introduces the key perspectives on childhood and children by exploring sociological, historical, cultural, philosophical economic and political influences and the issues that currently impact on children lives and the module provides a scaffold for the level 5 module Global inequalities and unequal childhoods (5203ECS).