Global Perspectives on Childhood and Youth

Question 1. The article says that traditionally research and policy has constructed children in the Global South in ways which may be too narrow to form an accurate picture of their lives. How do you think views have changed since 2003?

Question 2. The article talks about issues of globalisation and how progress and development still tend to be viewed as expanding a version of childhood from the global North. What are your views about this claim?

Question 3.The article argues that UK children are even more severely affected than adults by the social welfare spending policies of the current government and claims that the voices of children are being overlooked in debates about these issues. What do you think?

Question 4. How do the views of these children about themselves and their society compare with the views of British children?

Question 5. The views of children in this article challenge our traditional views about childhood and child labour. What are your views about the claims the article makes?

Section B. Analysis Tasks

The analysis tasks in this section assess your ability to identify key concepts or debates and to apply them to peer-reviewed academic documents. This is a crucial skill, which will be particularly useful when you are completing your research project in your final year.

The short analysis format encourages you to focus on a single concept explored within the module, and to use this to discuss and analyse a document. In doing so, you will demonstrate a range of key skills at FHEQ level 5.

When marking your each of analyses, we will consider:
• Is your chosen concept appropriate for analyzing the chosen document?
• Have you been able to explain the concept (concisely and accurately)?
• How well have you been able to use the concept to analyse the document?
• Are you able to make specific points, grounded in evidence, to support your claims?
• Have you used academic literature to help you to establish your points?
• Is there a sense of what you are trying to say about the document?

You do not need to analyse the chosen documentin its entirety. You only have 750 words so you will need to be carefully focused on the argument you want to make and select the relevant parts of the document to help you to make that point. You have had regular opportunities to practice these kind of analysis in the asynchronous tasks for each week.

Instructions

Please choose TWO of the following documents to analyse. You will write separate analyses for each document. Do not attempt to analyse them together.

Reading B1Kazeem, A (2012) Children's Work in Nigeria; Exploring the Implications of Gender, Urban-Rural residence, and Household socio-economic status. Review of Black Political Economy 39 pp 187-201

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Reading B2Grech, S (2011) Recolonising debates or perpetuated coloniality? Decentring the spaces of disability, development and community in the Global South. International Journal of Inclusive Education 15 (1) pp 87-100

OR

Reading B3Bach, D and Christensen, S (2017) Battling the Tiger Mother; Preschool Reform and Conflicting norms of parenthood in Singapore Children and Society 31 pp 134-143

OR

Reading B4Phiri, D.T and Abebe, T (2016) Suffering and thriving: Children's perspectives and interpretations of poverty and well-being in rural Zambia. Childhood 23(3) pp. 378-393

OR

Reading B5Twum-DansoImoh, A. (2016) From the singular to the plural: Exploring diversities in contemporary childhoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Childhood 23(3) pp. 455-468

Referencing style is "Harvard reference style"

Attachment:- Global Perspectives on Childhood.rar