TEAC2009 CONTEMPORARY CHILDHOODS AUTUMN 2023

LEARNING AND TEACHING SCHEDULE

Semester Week & Reading and other Links to
Week of  Topic  Learning Activities  Preparations Outcomes
Textbook: Wyness, M. (2019). Childhood and society. Red 1,2
Globe Press.
ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS
1 Module 1: What does it mean to be a • Ch. 1: The social meaning of childhood – pp.1-25
6th Mar child? What is childhood? Truong, S. (2015). Pre-service teacher identities and
Activity: Your beliefs about childhood the social construction of childhood. In T. Ferfolja, C. Jones
Diaz & J. Ullman (Eds.), Understanding Sociological Theory
for Educational Practices (pp.25-41). CUP.
Textbook: Wyness, M. (2019). Childhood and society. Red 2,3
Globe Press.
ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS
2 • Ch. 2: Theories of growing up: Developmentalism
Module 2: Childhood overtime and socialisation theory – pp.26-48.
13th Mar Activity: Different experiences of childhood;
Corsaro, W. A. (2018). The sociology of childhood (5th ed.).
your experience of childhood
Sage.
• Ch. 1: Social theories of childhood - pp. 5-27.
Textbook: Wyness, M. (2019). Childhood and society. Red 1,2,3
ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS Globe Press.
3 Module 3: Influences on views of • Ch. 3: Childhood and social structure.
20st Mar childhood Activity: Analyse an image and an Instagram Sorin, R. (2005). Changing images of childhood -
statement reconceptualising early childhood practice. International
Journal of Transitions in Childhood, 1, 12-21.
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Review – Prerecording Review Tutorial 1: Childhood constructions and quiz (Assessment 1) due by 9.00pm 31 March 2023
27th Mar
Wyness, M. (2018). Childhood, culture and society. Sage. 1,5,8,

ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS • Ch.24: Children’s use of space - pp. 257-272

5 Module 4: Children’s environments – Malone K. (2018). Children in the Anthropocene: Rethinking
3rd Apr Connections and encounters Sustainability and Child Friendliness in Cities. Palgrave
Activity: Map environments – public and private
Macmillan.
• Ch 3: Cities of Children - pp. 50-87.
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Intra-session break
10th Apr
7 Module 5: Children and educational Textbook: Wyness, M. (2019). Childhood and society. Red 2,7,8
17th Apr settings ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS Globe Press.
TEAC2009 CONTEMPORARY CHILDHOODS AUTUMN 2023

Semester Week & Reading and other Links to

Week of  Topic  Learning Activities  Preparations Outcomes
• Ch. 8: Schooling children and childhood – pp.157-
179.
Activity: Home-schooling vs mainstream Ruscoe, A., Barblett, L., & Barratt-Pugh, C. (2018). Sharing
schooling power with children: Repositioning children as agentic
learners. Australasian journal of early childhood, 43(3), 63-
71.
Textbook: Wyness, M. (2019). Childhood and society. Red 2,7
Globe Press.
• Ch. 10: Children: Their right and politics - pp.201-
225.
Quennerstedt, A., Robinson, C. & I’Anson, J. (2018). The
ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS UNCRC: The Voice of Global Consensus on Children’s
Module 6: Children’s rights and the
Rights?, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 36(1), 38-54, DOI:
8 political context
Activity: Critically analyse agency and rights 10.1080/18918131.2018.1453589
24th Apr Or
Vucic, B. (2014). Children and fish have no voice. In A.
Odrowąż-Coates and M. Kwiatkowski (eds.). The future of
education and society through the eyes of social
researchers. (pp. 207-225). APS

Assessment 2: Draft to Turnitin: Wednesday 26th April / Final due to Turnitin: Friday 28th April 11.59pm

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Review – Prerecording Review Tutorial 2: Contextualised childhoods and quiz (Assessment 1) due by 9.00pm Friday 5th May 2023
1st May
Wyness,M. (2018). Childhood, culture and society, Sage. 3,4,6
• Ch.23 – Children and identity formation pp. 242-
ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS 256.
10 Module 7: Children’s sense of self – Robinson, K., & Jones Diaz, C. (2005). Diversity And
diverse identities and subjectivities Difference In Early Childhood Education: Issues For Theory
8th May
Activity: Learning and social identities And Practice. McGraw-Hill Education.
• Ch.11 – Revisiting the challenge of diversity and
difference in childhoods – pp.237-250.
Orlando, J. (2021). Technology and the digital childhood. In 5,7,8
J. Arvanitakis (Ed.) Sociologic: Analysing Everyday Life and
ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS Culture. https://west-sydney-
11 primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/afm582/UWS-
Module 8: Technology and childhood ALMA21317960510001571
15th May Activity: Tensions between the public and
private realms of the digital world Chang-Kredl, S., & Kozak, S. (2018). Children using
Facebook: Teachers’ discursive constructions of
childhood. Learning, Media and Technology, 43(2), 211-215.
TEAC2009 CONTEMPORARY CHILDHOODS AUTUMN 2023

Semester Week & Reading and other Links to

Week of  Topic  Learning Activities  Preparations Outcomes
Textbook: Wyness, M. (2019). Childhood and society. Red 5,7,8
Globe Press.
ATTEND TUTORIAL CLASS • Ch. 9: Children’s social worlds: Culture, play and
Module 9: Culture and Consumerism technology – pp. 180-200.
12 Activity: Children as powerful consumers Hine, B., Ivanovic, K., & England, D. (2018). From the sleeping
22nd May princess to the world-saving daughter of the chief:
Examining young children’s perceptions of ‘old’ versus ‘new’
Disney princess characters. Social Sciences, 7(9), 161.

Review – Prerecording Review Tutorial 3: local and global childhoods and quiz (Assessment 1) due by 9.00pm Friday 26th May 2023

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29th May
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Assessment 3 Draft to Turnitin: Monday 29th May / Final due to Turnitin by 11.59pm Monday 5th June
5th June