2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5867M Children's family and personal relationships

30 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Dr Delyth Edwards
Email: D.Edwards@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module will introduce students to the study of children’s relationships, respectively exploring narrower and broader conceptions of ‘family’ and ‘personal life’. This module will explore multiple notions of ‘the family’. It will consider emergent ideas which question a narrow concept of the ‘family’ and instead encourage a broader focus on personal life. Personal life does not describe an individual’s life, but rather their social lives; it emphasizes children’s connections with a range of others, and as such, you will study the significant relationships children and young people form in their homes, schools and communities including with parents, siblings, wider kin, friends, peers, teachers, neighbours and others. Personal life focuses on how children and young people feel connected to one another, ways of relating to - and maintaining relationships with others. We will look at a series of empirical case studies throughout the module, including but not limited to for example, children’s views on and experiences of everyday relationships with siblings, parents and step parents, divorce and separation, Care Experience, friendships, death, bereavement and remembering, privacy and intimacy and domestic violence. We also look at biography and how children have biographies that consist of their past, present and future. We will explore how we can used a biographical approach to understand childrens personal lives.

Objectives

This module provides an introduction to the emerging field of personal life, with a focus on children’s relationships. Its objectives include to:

- Support students in exploring an emerging sub-field in the sociological study of childhood, youth and families

- Encourage students to consider the relevance of notions of family and personal life for understanding children’s relationships at home, in school and the community, and to policy and practice.

- Assist students in acquiring analytical skills for evaluating ideas about the family and personal life.

- Introduce students to real life case studies and engage them in critically analysing issues using ideas presented in the module.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject. On completion of this module students will be able to:

1. Evaluate and explain why narrower ideas about ‘the family’ are criticised and replaced by broader ideas which focus on personal life.

2. Critically evaluate theories and concepts within the fields of family and personal life and outline how these theories and concepts help us to understand children’s personal relationships and biographies.

3. Evaluate and identify issues or problems in children’s relational lives to which they can apply a personal life approach.

4. Discuss and evaluate with peers the merits and limitations of family and personal life approaches.

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

1. Appraise and share ideas, arguments and concepts related to children and young people’s personal lives and biographies clearly, coherently, and concisely in written and oral forms.

2. Critically evaluate theories to examine children and young people’s personal lives and biographies.

3. Apply creativity, independence, autonomy and self-direction in planning and completing assessments.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	11	2.00	22.00
Private study hours			278.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Formative assessment is conducted during the activities and discussion conducted in the weekly sessions. These will enable students to ask questions, clarify issues and the tutor to monitor student progress. Specific support for the assessment assignment will be provided in two of the lectures, and students will have the opportunity to seek support on the assignment through 1-1 contact with the teaching staff and specifically module leader

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework	50.00
Assignment	Coursework	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

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