CARE08058 2022 Children, Culture and Society

General Details

Full Title
Children, Culture and Society
Transcript Title
Children Culture and Society
Code
CARE08058
Attendance
N/A %
Subject Area
CARE - Social Studies
Department
SOCS - Social Sciences
Level
08 - Level 8
Credit
05 - 05 Credits
Duration
Semester
Fee
Start Term
2022 - Full Academic Year 2022-23
End Term
9999 - The End of Time
Author(s)
Susan McDonnell
Programme Membership
SG_HSOCI_H08 202200 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HEARL_H08 202200 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education SG_HEARM_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education SG_HSOCP_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HSOCI_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HEARL_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education SG_HSOCP_H08 202400 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HEARM_H08 202400 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education SG_WSOCI_H08 202500 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice
Description

This elective module introduces key concepts of Childhood Studies, applying them to children’s roles in society, children’s practices, and children’s creation and consumption of culture. There are no pre-requisite modules, but if you have already studied Sociology of Childhood, this module will utilize and extend your understanding in this area. Children, Culture and Society offers a critical sociological overview of perspectives on childhood, and the implications of these perspectives for children’s everyday lives, cultural activities and participation, both in western countries and in the majority world. Through reading, reflection and discussion, students will be encouraged to consider children’s lives in context, and the importance of interactions between children and adults. A particular focus will be contemporary debates around children’s material and media cultures, including relevant case studies.

This module maps to the CORU Standards of Proficiency below:

Domain 4: Professional Development

Domain 5: Professional Knowledge and Skills

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module the learner will/should be able to;

1.

Discuss key debates in Childhood Studies with regard to the conceptualization and positioning of children in western and majority world contexts (Domain 4.4, 5.1,5.2,5.4, 5.6,5.7, 5.14)

2.

Describe historical and contemporary perspectives on children's participation in society (Domain 5.1,5.2,5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 5.14)

3.

Evaluate the significance of work, play, material and media cultures in children's social worlds, with particular reference to 'new' media (Domain 5.1,5.4, 5.7)

4.

 Assess the role of key adult contributors to children's culture and of children's role in creating culture 

5.

Critically analyse children's material/ media culture with reference to concepts addressed in the module (Domain 5.7)

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lectures, tutorial discussions, learner participation

Module Assessment Strategies

This module assessment allows for assessment of CORU standards of proficiency as follows: 

(i) In pairs, you will present an outline of a journal article/ book chapter to your tutorial group, and lead discussion 40%. Methods used should promote engagement and maximize class participation. (Materials will be selected by the lecturer to cohere with course content) (Domain 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 5.6, 5.7,5.14)

 (ii) Essay: Children's culture analysis 2000 words. 60% (Domain 5.1, 5.4)

 

Repeat Assessments

Repeat project 1 and/or 2

Indicative Syllabus

  •  Defining and representing childhoods
  • Children as social actors
  • Children’s Place: Public and private
  • Rights, Participation, and Citizenship
  • Peer Cultures
  • Work and Play
  • Material culture: Toys
  • The Politics of Children and Media
  • New media and participatory cultures
  • Film, stories and books

 

Coursework & Assessment Breakdown

Coursework & Continuous Assessment
100 %

Coursework Assessment

Title Type Form Percent Week Learning Outcomes Assessed
1 Review/ presentation Coursework Assessment Group Project 40 % OnGoing 1,3
2 Essay Project Essay 60 % Week 12 2,4,5
             

Full Time Mode Workload


Type Location Description Hours Frequency Avg Workload
Lecture Classroom Flexible Seating Lecture 2 Weekly 2.00
Tutorial Classroom Flexible Seating Tutorial 1 Weekly 1.00
Independent Learning Not Specified Independent learning 3 Weekly 3.00
Total Full Time Average Weekly Learner Contact Time 3.00 Hours

Required & Recommended Book List

Required Reading
2018-12-13 Reimagining Childhood Studies Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 9781350019225 ISBN-13 1350019224

Reimagining Childhood Studies incites, and provides a forum for, dialogue and debate about the direction and impetus for critical and global approaches to social-cultural studies of children and their childhoods. Set against the backdrop of a quarter century of research and theorising arising out of the new social studies of childhood, each of the 13 original contributions strives to extend the conceptual reach and relevance of the work being undertaken in the dynamic and expanding field of childhood studies in the 21st century. Internationally renowned contributors engage with contemporary scholarship from both the global north and south to address questions of power, inequity, reflexivity, subjectivities and representation from poststructuralist, posthumanist, postcolonial, feminist, queer studies and political economy perspectives. In so doing, the book provides a deconstructive and reconstructive dialogue, offering a renewed agenda for future scholarship. The book also moves the insights of childhood studies beyond the boundaries of this field, helping to mainstream insights about children's everyday lives from this burgeoning area of study and avoid the dangers of marginalizing both children and scholarship about childhood. This carefully curated collection extends beyond critiques of specified research arenas, traditions, concepts or approaches to serve as a bridge in the transformation of childhood studies at this important juncture in its history.

Required Reading
2018-08-13 Childhood, Culture and Society SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 144629613X ISBN-13 9781446296134

Never shying away from the most pressing topics in the field, this book provides a multifaceted and extensive analysis of the study of children and childhood. Linking key concepts, themes and problems together, this text offers an interdisciplinary approach with its topical and timely case studies and illustrations which illuminate the latest research in the field. The book: Features a number of international case studies including children and military conflict, child migrants, children and networking sites, child trafficking, and children as consumers Includes questions which help you to make connections between topics and get you reflecting on your own childhood Is packed with engaging learning features including chapter aims, boxed sections, summaries and further reading suggestions

Required Reading
2021-12-24 Child and Youth Participation in Policy, Practice and Research
ISBN 0367568292 ISBN-13 9780367568290

This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth. Throughout its three parts, the book conceptualises a rights-based participatory approach; showcases constructive and innovative rights based participatory approaches across the domains of research, policy and practice; and interrogates the challenges and complexities in the implementation of such an approach. In recent times, Ireland has been at the forefront of promoting and implementing participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research focused on children and youth. This edited volume is a timely opportunity to capture previously undocumented learning generated from a wide range of innovative participatory initiatives implemented in Ireland. In capturing this learning, real world guidance will be provided to international policy-makers, practitioners and researchers working with children and youth. This book is essential reading for those interested in a rights based participatory approach, for those who want to appropriately and meaningfully engage children and youth in research, and for those wishing to maximise the contribution of children and youth in policy-making.

Module Resources

Non ISBN Literary Resources

Bragg, S. and Kehily, MJ (2013) Children and Young People's Cultural Worlds. OU/Wiley

Buckingham, D. (2007) Beyond technology: Children’s learning in the age of digital culture. Polity Press

Buckingham, D. and Sefton-Green, J. (2003) Gotta catch 'em all: structure, agency and pedagogy in children's media culture. Media, Culture and Society 25:160

Buckingham, D. (2007) Childhood in the Age of Global Media

Buckingham, D. and Tingstad (2010) Childhood and Consumer Culture

Clark, A. (2013) Childhoods in Context. OU/ Wiley Press

Corsaro, W. (2005) The Sociology of Childhood

Crowley, A. and Johnson, V. (2016) Children's Participation in Global Contexts: Beyond Voice. London, Routledge

Devine, D. and Kelly, M. (2006) 'I just don't want to get picked on by anybody' Dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in a newly multi-ethnic Irish primary school. Children and Society 20

d'Haenens,L. Vandoninck, S. and Donoso, V. (2013) How to Cope and Build online resilience? http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU Kids III/Reports/Copingonlineresilience.pdf

Foley, P. and Leverett, S. (2011) Children and Young People's Spaces

Hughes, P. and MacNaughton, G. (2001) Fractured or Manufactured: Gendered Identities and Culture in the Early Years. In Grieshaber, S. and Cannella, G. Embracing identities in early Childhood Education. Teacher's College Press

Ito, M. et al (2008) Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of findings from the digital youth project. MIT Press

Jenkins, H. (1998) The Children's Culture Reader New York University Press

Livingstone, Sonia, Marsh, Jackie, Plowman, Lydia, Ottovordemgentschenfelde, Svenja and Fletcher-Watson, Ben (2014) Young children (0-8) and digital technology: a qualitative exploratory study - national report - UK. Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Luxembourg.

Marsh, J. (2010) Young Children's Play in Online Virtual Worlds. Journal of Early Childhood Research 8(1)

Marsh, J. and Bishop, J. (2014) Changing Play: Play, media and commercial culture from the 1950s to the present day. OU Press

Matthews, S. (2007) A window on the New Sociology of Childhood. Sociology Compass

Messenger Davies, M. (2010) Children, Media and Culture OU Press

Minecraft: More than a game http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mqpgl

Renold, E. (2005) Girls, boys and junior sexualities: exploring children's gender and sexual relations in the primary school. Routledge

Stoeklin, D. and Bonvin, J.M. (2014) Children's Rights and the Capability Approach: Challenges and Prospects. Heidelberg, Springer

Sutton-Smith, B. (1997) The Ambiguity of Play. Harvard Press

Tisdall, EKM and Punch, S. (2013) Not so new: looking critically at childhood studies. Children's Geographies 10:3 249-264

Warner, M. (2014) Once Upon a Time: A short history of fairy tale. Oxford University Press

Wyness, M. (2006) Childhood and Society

 

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