The aim of this module is to enable students to develop a critical, multidisciplinary, child-centred perspective on inequalities in the global context. Inequalities between children and adults as well as divisions which cut across childhood such as socio-economic difference, gender and race/ethnicity will be examined in the broader context of the disparities in resources and opportunities between children in poorer majority-world countries compared with those in richer minority-world countries. There will be a particular emphasis on the interaction between the global and the local in terms of the political, economic and cultural conditions which shape childhoods around the world. The module will examine such issues as child-adult relations; children’s rights; child poverty; school/work; child trafficking; children affected by conflict. Overall the module will provide students with a clear set of conceptual and analytical tools for critically analysing and challenging global inequalities between children.
We encourage you to search for other School of Social Justice modules. Graduates who have completed at least 15 credits of undergraduate electives offered by the School of Social Justice will have this noted on their UCD transcripts as the completion of Structured Electives in Social Justice.