Rationale
This module explores children’s everyday lives within various cultures, spaces, places and environments that they inhabit as such understanding is critical to making their worlds safer, facilitating their participatory roles in society, and implementing policies relevant to their geographies. The past few years have witnessed a proliferation in academic work and research into the children’s lives that examine the diverse experiences of children in numerous spatial locations. These include historical and contemporary constructions of childhood, drawing on sociological, cultural and anthropological theories, discourses and ideologies. There will be a focus on providing core theoretical frameworks for the consideration of a wide variety of conceptual issues have emerged recently from a variety of academic perspectives which are important to understanding children’s everyday lives and therefore, to students of ECS.