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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Education |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Description:
| Aims: The intention of this unit is to: * Extend students' knowledge of a range of contemporary sociological issues concerned with education, 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 sociological issues concerned with education, children and young people and the factors that have influenced those issues; * Demonstrate understanding of recent research associated with contemporary sociological issues. 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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ED20442 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Education
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