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ED32013: Contemporary issues in childhood and youth: theory and practice

[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]

Academic Year: 2025/26
Owning Department/School: Department of Education
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CWES 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Contemporary Issues essay (CWES 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: 1. Explaining how a range of contemporary issues concerned with education, children and young people are played out in the professional and political spheres. 2. Critically appraising the social dynamics associated with those issues to examine the causes, dynamics, effects and possible preventions. 3. Critically evaluating the extent to which social theories can provide plausible explanations for the emergence of contemporary issues facing children and young people.


Synopsis: "Extend your knowledge of a range of contemporary issues facing children and young people. You will explore social theories that provide explanations for aspects of these issues and how current issues in childhood and youth are addressed in policy and practice. This unit includes a range of real-world insights from practitioners. "

Content: Examine issues experienced by children and young people, including in relation to questions of prevention/intervention. We will explore: 1) What might be the underlying social dynamics that lead to the issue, and what social theories can best explain these? 2) Which practitioners may be involved in relation to the issue? 3) What kinds of constraints and strategies might they encounter? Contemporary issues may include:
* Health and well being: eating disorders, self image, lifestyle choices
* Young people and the law: age of consent, school leaving age, issues of blame and accountability, youth offending
* Culture and social roles: teenage parenting, oppositional subcultures, young people as civic and political actors
* Children and young people in poverty: child abuse and child protection, vulnerable children (disabled, traveller, asylum seekers and refugees) and the exploitation of children and young people

Course availability:

ED32013 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Education
  • UHED-AFB20 : BA(Hons) Education with Psychology (Year 3)
  • UHED-AKB12 : BA(Hons) Education with Psychology with Professional Placement (Year 4)
Department of Psychology Department of Social & Policy Sciences
  • UHSP-AFB34 : BSc(Hons) Applied Social Studies (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Criminology (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Criminology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB32 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB35 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
  • UHSP-AFB36 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 3)
  • UHSP-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)

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