University of Liege | Version française
Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
ANTH0047-1  Anthropology of childhood - 1st part

Duration :  15h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits :  
Master in Anthropology, in-depth approach, 2nd year3
Master in Population and Development studies, Research Focus, 1st year3
Master in Sociology, in-depth approach, 1st year3
Master in Anthropology, Teaching Focus, 2nd year3
Master in Sociology, didactic approach, 1st year3
Master in Population and Development Studies, Professional Focus in Contemporary China , 1st year3
Master in Population and Development Studies, Professional Focus in North-South Cooperation , 1st year3
Master en sociologie, à finalité spécialisée en immigration studies, 1st year3
Master in Sociology, Professional focus in applied sociology, 1st year3
Master in Sociology and Anthropology3
Master in Education, Professional Focus in teaching, 2nd year3
Master in Education, Professional Focus in Adult Education, 2nd year3
Lecturer :  Elodie Razy
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
The anthropology of childhood and children is constructed in different ways according to academic traditions (EU, Great Britain, France, Germany, etc.). New emerging currents, particularly in Latin America, have been involved in the short history of this developing field. We will look at this by focussing on different themes and/or approaches (social and symbolic construction of the child, status of children, child development, daily life, marginalised children, the concept of the 'child-actor', childlike cultures, concepts of "agency", the position of the child in the life-cycle, etc.) in light of work conducted in different societies both in the South and in the North.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
Students will acquire a good historical knowledge of this developing field and the reasons for different developments in the EU, Great Britain and France as well as emerging trends. They will understand, through the examples studied in class, as well as conferences, symposiums, and readings, how to develop an anthropological position in the field of Childhood. They will also be able to do ethnographic fieldwork, to reconstruct and analyse ethnographical data produced during fieldwork with the theoretical tools of the anthropology of childhood.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
None.
Two awareness raising sessions on the anthropological approach will be organised for students who are not enrolled on the Masters in Anthropology course. These sessions will be based on a portfolio of specific readings and a book (on line on myULg).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Class, conferences, symposiums, videos, students' accounts, discussions and debates, readings, ethnographic fieldwork.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Lectures. The course will take place in the first term.
Recommended or required readings :  
Course material: texts, conferences, films, etc. Students will be obliged to read publications.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Students will write a final report based on their ethnographic filedwork and readings; anthropology students will also have to give a presentation orally during a "Methodology Symposium" organised during class; students from other disciplines will be required to attend this Symposium (instructions about these exercises will be given in class).
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
I meet with students between 12.pm and 1.pm on Mondays or by appointment (Elodie.Razy@ulg.ac.be).

Items online :  
Pf de textes "Anthropologie de l'enfance"
Textes à lire pour les séances du cours.

PF textes "Approches du terrain"
Textes à consulter pour la réalisation du terrain ethnographique

Program, informations & assessment
Program, informations and assessment grid are on line.



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