Duration
30h Th, 30h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The anthropology of childhood and children has been constructed in different ways according to academic traditions (EU, Great Britain, France, Germany, etc.). New trends are emerging, especially in Latin America, which are part of the short history of this developing field. We will look at this by focusing 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", child cultures, concept 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 the North.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Students will have acquired good historical knowledge of this developing field and the reasons why it has developed differently in the EU, Great Britain and France as well as emerging trends. Based on examples studied in class, during conferences and in texts they have read, they will know how to develop an anthropological position in the field of childhood. They will also be able to carry out ethnographic fieldwork, reconstruct and analyse the ethnographic data produced using the theoretical tools of the anthropology of childhood.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None.
The course will start with an introduction to the anthropological approach.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Classes, conferences, videos, student accounts, discussions and debates, reading, ethnographic fieldwork (30 h).
I strongly recommend that students read the compulsory book (Godelier, M. 2004 "Au fondement des Sociétés humaines. Ce que nous apprend l'anthropologie", Paris: Albin Michel) before or at the beginning of the course.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Lectures. The course will take place during the first quadrimester.
Recommended or required readings
Course material: a book, texts, conferences, films, etc.
Students will be obliged to read publications.
Assessment methods and criteria
Students will do practical exercises (questions on the texts, ethical situation, seminar) and write a final report 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
Compulsory classes with a student monitor will be organized.
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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