2019-2020 / ANTH2225-1

Anthropology of childhood, youth and education, course-seminar

Duration

30h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in anthropology (120 ECTS)6 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté des Sciences sociales)6 crédits 

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 to the anthropology of childhood, youth and education and their links to general anthropology in different traditions. We shall look at the history of these fields by focusing 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, concept of "agency", etc.) in light of work conducted in different societies both in the South and the North.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Students will have acquired good historical knowledge of these fields and the reasons why they have developed differently worldwide. Through examples studied in class, as well as conferences and reading, they will know 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 carry out ethnographic fieldwork, and reconstruct and analyse the ethnographic data produced during the fieldwork using the theoretical tools of the anthropology of childhood and general anthropology, in the form of a scientific paper.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Classes, conferences, videos, student accounts, seminars, discussions and debates, reading, ethnographic fieldwork.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Lectures. The course will take place during the first quadrimester.

Recommended or required readings

Course material: publications, conferences, films, etc.

Assessment methods and criteria

Students will conduct practical exercises, do fieldwork, an oral presentation and write a scientific paper based on their ethnographic fieldwork and the material they have read (instructions, assessment methods and criteria concerning these exercises will be available on myULiège and explained in class).

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Students can arrange to see me by appointment.
Office 2.36 (B31)

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

Contacts

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

See 1st session.

Assessment methods

See 1st session.

Contacts

elodie.razy@uliege.be

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