Childhood and Youth

The Childhood and Youth program from Bangor University , offers new ways of thinking about the position of children and young people in society and creates a critical bridge between theoretical perspectives, policy and practice.

This course may be of particular interest to those working with/for children and graduates of childhood studies, health, social policy and education who wish to deepen their knowledge and child-centred research expertise.

Careers

Students of this course will be thoroughly prepared to enhance practice within the children’s work force.

This could include education, children’s advocacy, youth justice, research, family support work, health or any aspect of work with and for children and young people.

Courses included:

• Social and cultural representations and meanings of childhood in the 21st century

• Children’s Rights in local and global contexts

• The complex interactions between the spaces children and young people inhabit

• Surveillance and policing of children in society

• Youth vulnerability, exploitation and development

• Children’s lives in the context of the changing nature of families and family life

• Researching children’s lives