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3749 PointsProgram Description
As part of the master in Anthropology of Childhood, Youth, Education (MSc), you will look at historic perceptions of childhood in the West to the development of European rights of protection, compared to childhood experiences in other parts of the world, like the street children of Brazil.
In a module on learning and education, you will compare physical development stages, including how knowledge is acquired and universal patterns of play, to the range of ways children are prepared or educated to fit cultural expectations.
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Course Content
You will study a set of modules focussing on childhood, youth and education alongside foundational modules in social and cultural anthropology and on conducting anthropological research.
In your second term you have a choice of options from anthropology as well as from related disciplines such as globalisation and development.
You will also have the opportunity to conduct your own dissertation fieldwork anywhere in the world according to your anthropological interests.
Teaching and Learning
You will learn through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials as well as through your own reading. You will also be encouraged to attend the department’s calendar of lunchtime research meetings where guest speakers share insight from their own research and experience.
Anthropology of Childhood, Youth and Education is taught by a team of Brunel experts who have worked in many countries across the globe, including South, West and East Africa, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka, as well as Britain.
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