Anthropology of childhood, youth and education, course-seminar

Duration

30h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Elodie Razy

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course offers an introduction in the anthropology of childhood, youth and education and their links to general anthropology in different academic traditions. We will look at this history of these fields by focussing on different themes and/or approaches (categories and concepts of childhood, youth and education, social and symbolic construction of the person, development, daily life, marginalised children and youth, child and youth cultures, institutions, concepts of "agency", etc.) in light of work conducted in different societies both in the South and in the North.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

rtStudents will acquire a good historical knowledge of these fields and the reasons for different developments around the world. They will understand, through the examples studied in class, as well as conferences and readings, how to develop an anthropological position in the field of Childhood, Youth and Education and introduce the issue of childhood and youth in any anthropological work. 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 and general anthropology by writting a scientific paper.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Class, conferences, videos, students' accounts, seminar, 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: publications, conferences, films, etc.

Assessment methods and criteria

Students will conduct practical exercises, do fieldwork, do an oral presentation and write a scientific paper based on their ethnographic filedwork and readings (instructions, assessment methods and criteria about these exercises will be given on MyULg and explained in class).

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

I meet with students by appointment
Office 2.36 (B31)

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