Welcome to the Warwick MA Childhood in Society

You will be taught by world-class scholars and researchers in the field of Childhood Studies, who include Professor Alan Prout; Professor Pia Christensen and Professor Carol Aubrey. For more information on our team, please click here

Junyi Wu, MA Childhood in Society Graduate, talks about her experience of the course

Overview:

The MA Childhood in Society is interdisciplinary and addresses the UN definition of childhood in the age-range 0 - 18 years.

Your studies will include:

• global issues of children’s rights, participation, development and care;
• international perspectives on the child, family and children’s learning
• the changing, and future of globalising childhoods
• research methodologies

 Who is it for?

The Warwick MA Childhood in Society is designed to develop the needs of both new and experienced scholars and practitioners who are either already working, or who intend to work, with children in educational, social, health or psychological settings, and/or are interested in the debates and issues of childhood as an academic discipline.  

The Institute of Education (WIE) is a vibrant Department in one of the UK’s Top Ten universities for teaching, research and innovation. The University of Warwick is geographically located in central England. There are easy, direct and frequent rail links to take you to London, Oxford, and the English Lake District; and we are only 26 kms from Shakespeare’s Stratford upon Avon. The City of Birmingham and Birmingham International Airport are 19kms North of the University with easy rail or road links.

We look forward to welcoming you to this lively, innovative, forward-looking course that is at the cutting-edge of Childhood Studies.