Useful reading

To help you best prepare, your Programme Director has identified some pre-reading materials which will give you a head start on your programme.

Children and Childhoods

Balagopalan, Sarada (2019) Teaching “Global Childhoods”: form a Cultural Mapping of “Them” to a Diagnostic Reading of “Us/US.” In Twum-Danso Omoh, A., Bourdillon, M. and Meichsner, S. (eds) Global Childhoods Beyond the North-South Divide. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan.  pp 13-34

Gittens, D. (2015) The historical construction of childhood.  In Kehily, Mary Jane (ed) An introduction to Childhood Studies. 3rd Edition.  Maidenhead; McGraw-Hill Education, Open University Press. P 35-49

Pressler, Shirley J. Construction of Childhood: The building blocks.  In Kassem, D., Murphy, L. & Taylor, E. (2010) Key Issues in Childhood Studies: A Reader in Perspectives of Childhood.  London: Routledge. *

Smith, Kylie. Deconstructing Discourses to Rupture Fairytales of the “Ideal” Childhood. In Wyn, Johanna and Cahill, Helen (eds) (2020) Handbook of Children and Youth Studies.  Singapore: Springer. *

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