Anthropology of childhood, youth and institutions, class-seminar

Duration

30h Th, 30h Pr, 30h FW

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 to the anthropology of childhood, youth and institutions and their links to general anthropology in different traditions. We shall then focus on different themes and/or approaches (categories and concepts of childhood, youth and education and care institutions, social and cultural construction of the person, development, socialization, daily life, marginalised children and youth, child and youth cultures, the concept of "agency", etc.) in light of work conducted in different societies both in the South and the North. In doing so, general methodological, ethical and theoretical issues will be addressed.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Students will acquire 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 and youth and will be able to 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, youth and general anthropology, in the form of an oral presentation, during a workshop that they will co-organize, and a scientific paper. Based on these skills, they will be able to participate in a collective research project during an interdisciplinary workshop in anthropology and educational sciences.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

It is recommended to have previously followed the general anthropology courses of Block 1 of the Master, and more particularly "Anthropology of Kinship and body" or a similar one.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course

Recommended or required readings

Instructions, readings and assessment criteria in "course materials".

Written work / report

Continuous assessment


Additional information:

Additional information:
See instructions and criteria in "course materials"


Participation in various activities: 20%.
Discussion of the text: 10%.
Understanding of the text Discussion & moderation of the discussion.
Communication: 20%.
Article: 50%.
See the evaluation form for submitted papers : at the end of the "Instructions to Authors" document of the journal AnthropoChildren: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/file/INSTRUCTION%20(ENG).pdf  

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

The  class will take place in the first semester.

Contacts

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

Association of one or more MOOCs

Items online