School Of EducationContemporary Childhoods (Block)Western Sydney University Unit Code: 500073.1
Discipline: TEACHER EDUCATION: EARLY CHILDHOOD
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
102048 - Contemporary Childhoods, 700289 - Contemporary Childhoods
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in course 7181 – Undergraduate Certificate in Early Childhood Studies.
About this Unit
In this unit students will engage in an exploration of what it means to be a child in a postmodern world and how different theoretical approaches influence ways of understanding children’s lives. Alongside questions of how gender, sexuality, ethnicity, 'race', language, class, ability and religion are constituted through a child’s identity, students will explore the notion of a child’s subjectivity. A child’s subjectivity is the conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions of the child, their sense of self, their body and their way of understanding their relationship to the world. Building on this knowledge, students will also explore the four key child-environment identities of the physical child, the social child, the learning child and the natural child and by analysing a variety of scholarly and non-scholarly texts around childhood, children’s bodies and behaviour will reflect on a child’s individuality and emerging identity.
Courses| 7181.1 | Undergraduate Certificate in Early Childhood Studies | CURRENT |