Duration
30h Th, 30h Pr, 30h FW
Number of credits
| Master in anthropology (120 ECTS) | 10 crédits | |||
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of social sciences) | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course offers an introduction to the anthropology of childhood, youth and institutions and their links to general anthropology in different traditions. We shall then focus on different themes and/or approaches (categories and concepts of childhood, youth and education and care institutions, social and cultural construction of the person, development, socialization, daily life, marginalised children and youth, child and youth cultures, the concept of "agency", etc.) in light of work conducted in different societies both in the South and the North. In doing so, general methodological, ethical and theoretical issues will be addressed.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Students will acquire good historical knowledge of these fields and the reasons why they have developed differently worldwide. Through examples studied in class, as well as conferences and reading, they will know how to develop an anthropological position in the field of childhood and youth and will be able to introduce the issue of childhood and youth in any anthropological work. They will also be able to carry out ethnographic fieldwork and reconstruct and analyse the ethnographic data produced during the fieldwork using the theoretical tools of the anthropology of childhood, youth and general anthropology, in the form of an oral presentation, during a workshop that they will co-organize, and a scientific paper. Based on these skills, they will be able to participate in a collective research project during an interdisciplinary workshop in anthropology and educational sciences.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
It is recommended to have previously followed the general anthropology courses of Block 1 of the Master, and more particularly "Anthropology of Kinship and body" or a similar one.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Classes, conferences, videos, student presentations, seminars, discussions and debates, reading, ethnographic fieldwork.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
Instructions, readings and assessment criteria in "course materials".
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Additional information:
See instructions and criteria in "course materials"
Participation in various activities: 20%.
Discussion of the text: 10%.
Understanding of the text
Discussion & moderation of the discussion.
Communication: 20%.
Article: 50%.
See the evaluation form for submitted papers : at the end of the "Instructions to Authors" document of the journal AnthropoChildren: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/file/INSTRUCTION%20(ENG).pdf
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The class will take place in the first semester.
Contacts
Students can arrange to see me by appointment.
Office 2.36 (B31)