Children’s geographies

Timetable

Meetings will be held from the middle of the semester on Wednesdays at 12:00 in room L-108 in Collegium Geographicum.

First meeting: 20 November

Module aim (aims)

The module aims to introduce participants to children's geographies. The most important issues related to this sub-discipline will be discussed (see syllabus). The module consists of lectures and workshops. During the workshop, participants will work on designing their own research agenda connected with children's geographies and referring to their interests.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

English language skills at a level enabling participation in discussions and reading the proposed literature.

Syllabus

 Introduction to children’s geographies – history, beginnings

 Who is and who isn`t a child?

 Key theoretical issues (2 lectures)

 (Un)popular methods and tools

 Research with, by, for, and about Children

 Ethics in children’s geographies

 Trends in children’s geographies

 

Reading list

Aitken S. C., 2018, Children's geographies: Tracing the evolution and involution of a concept. Geographical Review, 108(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/gere.12289

Holloway S. L., Valentine, G., 2004, Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood. In Children's Geographies (s. 1-22). Routledge. eBook ISBN9780203017524

Holloway, S. L., & Valentine, G. (Eds.). (2004). Children's geographies: Playing, living, learning. Routledge.

Matthews H., 1995, Living on the edge: children as ‘outsiders’. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 86(5), 456-466. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01867.x

Matthews H., 1998, The geography of children: Some ethical and methodological considerations for project and dissertation work. Journal of geography in higher education, 22(3), 311-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098269885723

Yarwood R., Tyrrell N., 2012, Why children's geographies?. Geography, 97(3), 123-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2012.12094350

Van Blerk, L., & Kesby, M. (Eds.). (2013). Doing children’s geographies: Methodological issues in research with young people. Routledge.

Christensen, P., & James, A. (Eds.). (2008). Research with children: Perspectives and practices.

Freeman C., 2020, Twenty-five years of children's geographies: a planner's perspective. Children's Geographies, 18(1), 110-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2019.1598547