该专业硕士学位是英国为数不多的在国际背景下专注于儿童和青年研究的学位之一。您将探索如何在不同的时间，地点和文化中定义和体验童年和童年的经历。您将对各种文化如何建构不同的童年形成一种社会学的理解，还将研究社会内部更广泛的变化如何影响和塑造童年。本课程侧重于国际背景下的儿童，童年和青年，因此您将考虑包括社会与经济，国际发展和战争在内的全球力量如何塑造全球儿童和年轻人的经验。您还将探索影响童年的其他因素，包括阶级，性别和种族。在课程结束时，您将对全球和本地的复杂互动如何影响童年的体验有更深入的了解。
This specialist Master's degree is one of the very few in the UK that focuses on childhood and youth studies within their international context. You will explore how childhood and the experience of being a child are defined and experienced in different times, places and cultures. You will develop a sociological understanding of how childhood is constructed differently across cultures and we will also look at how childhood is influenced and shaped by wider changes within societies.The course focuses on children, childhood and youth in an international context, so you will consider how global forces, including society and economy, international development and war, shape the experiences of children and young people worldwide. You will also explore other factors that shape childhood, including class, gender and ethnicity. By the end of the course, you will have an advanced understanding of how the complex interaction of the global and the local shape the experience of childhood.This course will be of interest to anyone working, or intending to work, with children in service provision, in social policy or in international development, particularly in culturally diverse settings, or anyone who has an interest in cultures of childhood. You will study in an environment of active research, taught by world-leading scholars in the field, and you will develop the skills you need to design and produce high-quality, independent research.<br> <br>Graduates go on to careers in education, international development and social policy settings. Possible professions include social worker, community development worker, or learning mentor. This degree can also be useful in becoming a learning mentor or youth worker.<br><br>We offer a comprehensive Careers and Employability Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London's top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.