Course - Education and the Modern Childhood - PED1000
Education and the Modern Childhood
About
About the course
Course content
What does is mean to be a child? Is it a superfluous question? Surely, we all know what it is like to be a child. We have been one! We know childrens books and remember childhood games, TV-series and music. In spite of this, we experience that the concept of childhood changes. But how? What is it that makes childhood a changing experience, and why have the changes in our time perhaps been more marked than ever before?
The course provides a pedagogical introduction to central questions about children and childhood, questions which are important to anyone concerned with children and young persons upbringing. Examples from every day- and social life, new media, literature and music, from training in kindergarten and school will be applied to measure the nature of contemporary post-modern childhood. The course is obligatory in order to achieve full specialisation in education studies.
Learning outcome
The aim of the course is to give students insight into which social and pedagogical factors influence the understanding of modern childhood.
Learning methods and activities
2 hours of lectures per week, 1 hour seminar per week.
Form of assessment: 4-hour individual written exam.
Recommended previous knowledge
None.
Required previous knowledge
None.
Subject areas
- Education
- Social Sciences