CYP5065 - Sustainability of Children’s Rights

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

In this module you will examine key national legislation and national/ international principles relating to policy for children and families, including the impact of key perspectives on children’s rights and the UNCRC. This will involve exploring key tensions and complexities involved in the legal construction of children in national and international policy, for example, between rights and obligations, autonomy and protection, capacity and development, welfare and autonomy. There is opportunity for you to critically explore tensions and complexities reflected in legislation and policy, particularly contemporary tensions between English law and the UNCRC. This module provides an opportunity to reflect critically on the different constructions of children present in law and the way in which law both reflects and influences wider social, cultural, political and localised practices. Future iterations of the UNCRC will be debated and the future constructions of childhood within the timescale of your own professional career.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Formal scheduled teaching and learning activities. This module will be taught using a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, some of which will be student-led. Formative assessment by self and peers will be integrated into the sessions.
Hours: 25
Intended group size: 50

Guided independent study
Hours: 125

Further details relating to assessment

Students will complete an individual rationale, this should include an outline of the key legal frameworks governing practice, international comparisons and key rights against which the practice should be judged and critical assessment of the extent to which the practice meets the rights of children and recommendations for future development.

All students will have an opportunity within the modules for formative assessment support, to incrementally aid the completion of summative assessment tasks. Formative assessments may take the form of peer review, guided self-reflection, tutorial, draft feedback, and where relevant employer feedback.

Assessment:

001 Rationale; 2,000 words; semester 1 100%

Fact File

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Level - 5
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5S1

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