CHYS 1F90 Lecture : lecture 1.doc

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Rebecca Raby

Document Summary

Must hand in five, but can hand in a sixth. Quote, comparison, question shifting by seminar and by week (sheet on sakai) A socio-cultural perspective: disciplinary influences, context, social policy/action, critical lens. Constructionist and postmodernist: modernism, the enlightenment, truth via science, emphasis on rationality and reason, link to progress, link to rights and equality, looking at childhood. How can policy better reflect scientific knowledge about young people: critical theory, links to modernism, grounded in materialism: base and superstructure, ideology. How can these inequalities be addressed: social constructionist and postmodern positions, culture and language filter the material world, perspective and context are central, power is linked to the authority to create and define knowledge. Example: skins vs reginald bibby: deconstructing categories and binaries, knowledge shaping action, links to childhood. What are some consequences or effects of current knowledge and social practices in relation to children: concern .