International Childhood Studies

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The MSc International Childhood Studies aims to:

* Provide students with a critical historical and international perspective on the construction of childhood.
* Enable students to understand childhood as a site of social inequalities that are racialised, classed and gendered.
* Provide students with the skills to produce high-quality independent research.

This programme will be of particular interest to anyone working with or intending to work with children in service provision or policy development, particularly in culturally diverse settings, or who has an interest in cultures of childhood. The Programme Director Dr Karen Wells´ researches the impact of globalisation on childhood and the material and visual cultures of childhood with a particular interest in `race´. She is the author of Childhood in a Global Perspective (Polity Press 2009).

It is taught by a range of methods including: lectures, seminars, presentations and visual and one core module which is assessed by a 3 hour examination paper. There are two core modules, Social Studies of Childhood: key concepts and issues; and Political Economy of Childhood. PG Diploma and MSc students also take two option modules. Option Modules currently offered include Visual Cultures of Childhood and Children, Rights and Childhood. Classes in Research Methods for Dissertation are taught with the Msc Development Studies which gives students an opportunity for academic exchange with students working in the development sector. It is taught over two years, part time. The PG Cert/PG Dip may be taken part time over one or two years.