Department of Education, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: The intention of this unit is to: * Extend students' knowledge of a range of contemporary issues concerned with children and young people, with a particular focus on how current issues are played out in the area of prevention. Learning Outcomes: In completing this unit students would be expected to: * Provide explanations of how a range of contemporary issues concerned with children and young people are played out in the professional and political spheres; * explore the social dynamics associated with those issues to examine the causes, dynamics, effects and possible preventions. Skills: * Engage in critical analysis of a wide range of texts and electronic information * Interpersonal skills : for initial planning and subsequent relationships with professional * Data collection and analysis: qualitative * Synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding of research, policy and practice * To communicate this information in assessment requirements * Ability to develop rigorous arguments through the use of concepts * Ability to apply theory to contemporary issues. Content: Examining the following issues in relation to questions of prevention/intervention: 1) Who (which professionals would be involved)? 2) What might they do in the situation? 3) What kinds of constraints and strategies might they encounter? * Health and well being: For example, eating disorders, self image, fitness and exercise, lifestyle choices * Young people and the law: For example, age of consent, school leaving age, issues of blame and accountability * Culture and social roles: For example, teenage parenting, oppositional subcultures, young people as civic and political actors * Children and young people in poverty: For example, child abuse and child protection, vulnerable children (disabled, traveller, asylum seekers and refugees) and the exploitation of children and young people. |
| Programme availability: |
ED30443 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Education
ED30443 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Psychology
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