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![]() | 2012/3 |
![]() | Department of Education |
![]() | 6 |
![]() | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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Semester 1 |
![]() | CW 100% |
![]() | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
![]() | This unit is only available to Childhood, Youth & Education Studies students. |
![]() | Aims: The intention of this unit is to: * Extend students' knowledge of a range of contemporary issues concerned with children and young people, with a particular focus on examining the development of those issues in a social and political context. Learning Outcomes: In completing this unit students would be expected to: * Demonstrate knowledge of a range of contemporary issues concerned with children and young people, their development and the factors that have influenced those issues; * Demonstrate understanding of recent research associated with contemporary issues concerned with children and young people. Skills: * Engage in critical analysis of a wide range of texts and electronic information; * Synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding of research, policy and practice; * To communicate this information in assessment requirements; * Ability to develop rigorous arguments through the use of concepts; * Ability to apply theory to contemporary issues. Content: * Health and well being: For example, eating disorders, self image, fitness and exercise, lifestyle choices; * Young people and the law: For example, age of consent, school leaving age, issues of blame and accountability; * Culture and social roles: For example, teenage parenting, oppositional subcultures, young people as civic and political actors; * Children and young people in poverty: For example, child abuse and child protection, vulnerable children (disabled, traveller, asylum seekers and refugees) and the exploitation of children and young people. |
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ED30442 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Education
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