EQ105

Year 1

Core Module BA Education Studies

Term 1

10 Weeks

3 Hours

15 CATS

1x 2 hour exam

What is this module about?

This module discusses the ways in which childhood, education and schooling are perceived in different social contexts. Throughout the module we explore a number of arenas through which children are nurtured protected and socialised, including family, peer group and the virtual world of the mass media and digital technology. These contexts are viewed as important educational sites in their own right, as well as providing crucial supportive networks for schools and children's schooling. The module focuses on the way that these social contexts have changed as well as concentrate on the expanding roles that children themslves play in their own socialisation, schooling and identityformation. We also critically analyse the impact of class, poverty, gender and ethnicity on education and childhood.

Sample reading list:

Arnot, M Mac an Ghaill, M. (eds) (2006) The Routledge Reader in Gender and Education, Routledge.

Boyden, J. and Bourdillon, M. (eds) (2012) Childhood Poverty: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches, Blackwell.

Fleer, M. Hedegaard, M.and Tudge, J. (eds) (2009) Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalisation: Practices at Global and Local Levels, London: Routledge, pp: 1-20

Lareau, A. (2011) Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life, second edition, University of California press

Percy-Smith, B. and Thomas, N. (eds) (2010) A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: perspectives from theory and practice, London: Routledge.

Thorne, B. (1993) Gender Play: girls and boys in school. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Ball, S. (2003) Class strategies and the education market: the middle classes and social advantage, London: Routledge Falmer.

Evans, G. (2006) Educational failure and working class white children in Britain, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Wyness, M (2012) Childhood and Society, second edition, Palgrave.