Title: EDST 502A Growing Up in History: Critical Approaches to Children and Youth
Term: Summer 2 July 2 to July 18th, 2024, Monday -Thursday, 9:00am to 12:00pm
Description: This accelerated summer course surveys cutting edge research in the field of critical approaches to children and youth. Drawing on scholarship in a variety of fields, including history, sociology, geography, cultural studies, and education, we’ll delve deeper into a series of themes. These include theory and conceptual frameworks in the study of young people; Global North and Global South childhoods; representations of children and youth in popular culture; the experience of Indigenous youth; the role of education in young lives; transnational migrations; the role of gender, ability, class, and other markers of identity in shaping children and youth. Some of the questions we’ll consider include:
- Is childhood an historical invention?
- Who gets a “childhood”?
- How does childhood and “being young” shift across time and space?
- How and why are youth represented as “the future”?
- How and why does ‘race’, gender, class, and ability shape youthful experiences?
- How do researchers engage ethically with young participants?
The course is open to all graduate students
Instructor: Mona Gleason (please contact for more information) mona.gleason@ubc.ca
