General provisions

This is a course in the Master's Programme in Educational Science. It is also offered as an elective course. The course is taught in English.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. Proficiency in English equivalent to the general entry requirements for first-cycle (Bachelor's level) studies.

Learning outcomes

The course purpose is to examine structural and experienced inequalities in the spaces and places of children's lives.

Upon completing the course students will be able to:

• Show knowledge and understanding of inequalities in childhood spaces
• Describe and critically discuss the spatial processes, practices and discourses through which inequalities are shaped and encountered in childhood spaces
• Identify and analyse the spatialities of children's everyday lives in relation to children's agency as well as to age, social class, ethnicity and gender.

Content

• Introduction to the field of children's geographies within the interdisciplinary field of Child and Youth studies.
• Children's and young people's diverse everyday lives in differing times, places and circumstances.
• Different conditions in childhood spaces, such as homes, schools and neighbourhoods.
• Children's agency and social structures in children's unequal geographies.

Instruction

The teaching consists of lectures and seminars. Seminars are mandatory and require active participation.

Assessment

The course is assessed by individual written examinations and oral presentations.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed with another method. An example of such a special reason may be a certificate from the university's disability coordinator that states that special pedagogical support is needed.