To help you best prepare, your Programme Director has identified some pre-reading materials which will give you a head start on your programme. Year 2Tisdall, E.K.M., Davis, J., Fry, D., Konstantoni, K., Kustatscher, M., Maternowska, C., & Weiner, L. (2023) Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectives. (1 ed.) Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-childhood-studies-9781350163218/And associated videos for Chapter 2: Watch the videos (on Bloomsbury Online)Year 3Lareau, A. (2018) Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life. In 'Inequality in the 21st Century'. Routledge. pp. 444-451.Kustatscher, M., Hancock, J., Taylor, A. & Tisdall, E.K.M. (2026) Which children, whose childhoods? Global Studies of Childhood https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20436106261421709#tab-contributorsLindgren, T. (2019) The figuration of the posthuman child. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 41(6), 914–925. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2019.1576589Year 4Children’s Rights and the UNCRC in Scotland (on YouTube) Livingstone, S. et al. (2017) Children’s Rights in the Digital Age. In ‘The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights’. 1st edition. Routledge. pp. 104–113.Reynaert, D. et al. (2012) Between ‘believers’ and ‘opponents’: Critical discussions on children’s rights. The International journal of children’s rights, 20(1), 155–168. https://doi.org/10.1163/157181812X626417 This article was published on Monday 7 October 2024