ED22008: Contemporary issues in childhood and youth: research and intervention
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Education |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 50%, CWRI 50% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Literature evaluation (CWES 50%)
- Critically justify your intervention plan (CWRI 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Examining a range of contemporary issues concerned with children and young people, their development and the factors that have influenced the issues.
- Analysing recent research associated with contemporary issues concerned with children and young people and by implication how those issues have come to be theorised.
- Developing a focused and contextualised research question on a chosen contemporary issue.
- dentifying central concepts (methodological, theoretical, practical) for designing interventions.
- Developing a systematic and reasoned plan for an intervention that takes account of, and can tackle, an identified contemporary issue.
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| Synopsis: | "Explore a range of contemporary issues concerning children and young people, focusing on how these can be understood and addressed.
You will interrogate these issues by developing the skills to shape a research question, which you will then answer by identifying, analysing and applying relevant research literature.
Following this, You will design an educational intervention that can address the contemporary issue (or problem) you previously explored.
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| Content: | The contemporary issues discussed fall within the following broad areas, though students are encouraged to incorporate topics that interest them beyond the list below:
- Health and wellbeing: for example, eating disorders, body and social anxiety, mental health issues, self-harm, technology and social relationships.
- Culture and social roles: for example, the sexualisation of childhood, young people and political apathy, pedagogical inequalities, school and residential mobility.
- Young People and the Law: for example, crime and antisocial behaviour, post separation child residence, the age of consent.
- Children and young people in poverty: for example, educational inequalities, vulnerable children (disabled, traveller, asylum seekers and refugees) and the exploitation of children and young people.
The interventions content encompasses:
- Introducing and applying multiple theoretical perspectives in relation to the design of intervention plans.
- Drawing on real-life case studies to analyse and critique existing intervention plans.
- Learning how to evaluate interventions.
- Exploring why interventions may fail.
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| Course availability: |
ED22008 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Education
- UHED-AFB20 : BA(Hons) Education with Psychology (Year 2)
- UHED-AKB20 : BA(Hons) Education with Psychology with professional placement (Year 2)
Department of Psychology
- UHPS-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Psychology (Year 2)
- UHPS-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Psychology with work placement (Year 2)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Criminology (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Criminology with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB32 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB32 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB35 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 2)
- UHSP-AFB36 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB36 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB35 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with professional placement (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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