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MBV3002

Children, families and everyday life

Credits 15
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 2 semesters
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

About

About the course

Course content

The course provides advanced knowledge of how an everyday life perspective on children and families with complex life situations provides opportunities for a complex understanding of families' life situation. Challenges in the family can be about individual, relational, social and structural conditions that affect everyday life. Emphasis is placed on how the taken for granted in everyday life is a central framework for the individual's integrity, which in turn is important for meetings between vulnerable children, family and welfare services.

The course will also focus on different theoretical everyday life perspectives as well as the implications of living conditions for children and parents' everyday lives. The course problematizes how knowledge about everyday life is important for, and sets the premises for the help that is given to children and families by the child welfare service and other welfare services.

Learning outcome

Knowledge - The student has:

  • in-depth and advanced knowledge of key theories about everyday life
  • in-depth knowledge of theories about families with compound and complex life situations in a child welfare professional context
  • in-depth knowledge of different perspectives on children and young people's development
  • in-depth knowledge of how cultural and socio-economic conditions as class affect parenting and family life
  • in-depth insight into how different knowledge perspectives can be linked to the child welfare service's work with vulnerable children, young people and families

Skills - The student can:

  • reflect on different aspects of everyday life, notions of "the taken for granted" and its significance for vulnerable children and families
  • can analyze and apply different theoretical perspectives on vulnerable children and families in complex life situations
  • can analyze and argue independently and objectively on topics related to children and parents within a child welfare professional context
  • can reflect on the importance of everyday life for vulnerable children and families' need for help

General competence - The student can:

  • analyze, reflect on and communicate about academic issues in children and parents' everyday lives within the subject area and to the general public
  • contribute to innovation by applying everyday life knowledge from children and families critically and constructively in practice and research
  • analyze relevant professional and research ethics issues

Learning methods and activities

The course consists of lectures, various forms of group work, self-study and oral presentations in seminars.

Further on evaluation

The course consists of two partial exams:

  • School exam over four hours in the autumn semester
  • Home exam over one week in the spring semester.

An overall grade is given in the course, and grade in the course is obtained when both partial exams have been passed. If partial exam I is not passed in the autumn semester, it is possible to complete both partial exams in the spring semester. It is possible to request an explanation for the grade and appeal the grade on each partial exam.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Child Welfare Work (MBVARB)

Required previous knowledge

The course has admission right requirements, which means that the course is reserved for students who have been admitted to study Master's degree in child welfare work at NTNU.

Course materials

The syllabus list is published on Blackboard at the start of the course.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
ISA3505 7.5 sp Autumn 2022
MBV3000 15 sp Autumn 2022
ISA3500 7.5 sp Autumn 2022
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Social Sciences

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Social Work

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

School exam
Weighting 1/2 Examination aids Code E Date 2025-12-02 Time 09:00 Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment
Place and room for school exam

The specified room can be changed and the final location will be ready no later than 3 days before the exam. You can find your room location on Studentweb.

Sluppenvegen 14
Room SL311 lyseblå sone
16 candidates

Ordinary examination - Spring 2026

Home examination
Weighting 1/2 Duration 1 weeks Exam system Inspera Assessment