Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should be able to:
• Demonstrate a sound, theoretically-informed understanding of inequalities and injustices affecting children as a group; of the intersecting inequalities and injustices which create differential experiences and outcomes for different children; and of the interaction between the global and the local in mediating the impact of inequalities on children’s lives
• Present a critical, research-informed assessment of the effects of inequalities on children's lives
• Provide explanations, informed by relevant theory and research, of the various factors contributing to inequalities affecting children within and across majority and minority world countries.
• Devise a coherent framework, informed by relevant theory and research, for helping to address inequalities and injustices affecting children.
• Communicate knowledge about the causes and consequences of and solutions to inequalities and injustices affecting children to specialist and non-specialist audiences

Indicative Module Content:

The module will examine such issues as child-adult relations; the government of childhood; the political economy of childhood; children and work; violence against children; children affected by conflict; children and environmental justice. Overall the module will provide students with a clear set of theoretical, conceptual and analytical tools for critically analysing and challenging global inequalities affecting children.

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	22
Seminar (or Webinar)	2
Specified Learning Activities	70
Autonomous Student Learning	100
Total	194

Not applicable to this module.

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Assignment: Blog	Coursework (End of Trimester)	n/a	Graded	No	30
Assignment: Critical reflection	Week 7	n/a	Graded	Yes	70

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Autumn	No

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

For the first assignment (critical reflection) students will receive feedback individually post-assessment For the blog there will be peer-review activities prior to submission of the completed assignment to the lecturer for assessment. Individual feedback will be provided by the lecturer post-assessment

SSJ 38240 CHILDHOOD & GLOBAL JUSTICE
General Reading Resources

Books:
Key Reading:
Wells, Karen (2015) Childhood in a Global Perspective (2nd edition) Cambridge: Polity Press
Supplementary Reading:
• Alderson, P. (2013). An Introduction to Critical Realism and Childhood Studies. Routledge.
• Aitken et al (2008) Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People. Routledge
• Aitken et al (2011) Young People: Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.
• Alanen, L. and Mayall, B. (2001) Conceptualizing Child Adult Relations. Routledge
• Baker et al (2009) Equality: From Theory to Action (2nd edition) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Baraldi, C., & Cockburn, T. (Eds.). (2018). Theorising Childhood: Citizenship, Rights and Participation. Springer.
• Bhabha, J. (2014). Child migration and human rights in a global age. Princeton University Press.
• Bhattacharya, T. (2017) (ed.) Social Reproduction Theory. London: Pluto Press
• Cregan, K. and Cuthbert, D. (2014). Global childhoods: Issues and debates. London: Sage.
• Cunningham, H. (2011) Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.
• Esser, F, Baader, MS, Betz, T, et al. (2016) Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies. New York: Routledge
• Gadda, A. M., & Butler, U. M. (2014). Children and young people's participation and its transformative potential: Learning from across countries. Springer.
• Hanson, K, Nieuwenhuys, O (2013) Reconceptualizing Children’s Rights in International Development: Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Heywood, C. (2018) Childhood in Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• James, A. and Prout, A. (eds) (1997) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood. Routledge
• James, A and James, A (2008) Key Concepts in Childhood Studies. London: SAGE.
• Kehily, M.J. (2015) An Introduction to Childhood Studies (3rd edition) Maidenhead: McGraw Hill
• Lancy, D. (2014) The Anthropology of Childhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Meyering et al (2015). Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity: Disciplining the Child. Lexington Books.
• Montgomery, H. (2017) Childhood Studies: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. London: Routledge.
• Nadesan, M. (2010). Governing childhood into the 21st century: Biopolitical technologies of childhood management and education. Springer.
• Oswell, D. (2012). The Agency of Children: From Family to Global Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139033312
• Parke et al (Eds.). (2019). Children in Changing Worlds: Sociocultural and Temporal Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108264846
• Qvortrup et al (eds.) (2009) The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Razy et al (2016). Children on the Move in Africa: Past and Present Experiences of Migration. Boydell & Brewer.
• Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. (2019). Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Smith, K.M. (2014) The Government of Childhood: Discourse, Power and Subjectivity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Spyrou, S. (2018). Disclosing childhoods. In Disclosing Childhoods (pp. 1-14). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
• Spyrou et al (2018) Reimagining Childhood Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academi
• Vandenhole, W, Desmet, E., Reynaert, D and Lembrechts, S. (2015) Routledge International Handbook of Children’s Rights Studies, Abingdon: Routledge
• Wells, K. (2018) Childhood Studies: Making Young Subjects. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Wells et al (Eds.). (2014). Childhood, youth and violence in global contexts: Research and practice in dialogue. Springer.

Spring
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33	Thurs 14:00 - 15:50