One two-hour examination [75%]. 

This course aims to equip students with an advanced knowledge and critical understanding of the research that has been conducted into children’s and adolescents’ understanding, attitudes, feelings and behaviour in relationship to race, ethnicity and nation. The course covers the principal research methods which have been employed by researchers in this field, the principal findings of the empirical research which has been conducted, and the theoretical fra meworks which have been proposed in order to explain these empirical findings.

·      An advanced knowledge and understanding of the nature and scope of research in this field  

·      An ability to review critically research findings and theoretical assumptions in this field  

·      An ability to evaluate the relevant theoretical fra meworks in relationship to the available evidence  

·      Awareness of the current literature and the latest ideas in this field

Week 1: An introduction to the principal themes of the course: the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation and state.

Week 2: The development of racial and ethnic attitudes in childhood.

Week 3: Racial and ethnic identifications and acculturation in adolescence.

Week 4: Identifications and cultural practices of children and adolescents of mixed-heritage.

Week 5: Children’s and adolescents’ understanding of countries.

Week 6: The development of national identifications and national attitudes.

Week 7: Children’s and adolescents’ political understanding of the state.

Week 8: The development of active citizenship in childhood and adolescence.

Week 9: The development of intercultural competences and intercultural citizenship.

Lectures, supplemented by seminars for which students are expected to read original journal articles in advance.

Ali, S. (2003). Mixed-Race, Post-Race: Gender, New Ethnicities and Cultural Practices. Oxford: Berg.  

Barrett, M. (2007). Children’s Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.  

Weller, S. (2007). Teenagers’ Citizenship: Experiences and Education. London: Routledge.  

Alred, G., Byram, M. & Fleming, M. (Eds.) (2006). Education for Intercultural Citizenship: Concepts and Comparisons. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Barrett,M.&Buchanan-Barrow,E(Eds.) (2005). Children's Understanding of Society. Hove,UK: Psychology Press.
Berry,J.W.,Phinney,J.S.,Sam,D.L.& Vedder,P.(Eds) (2006). Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition. Mahwah,NJ: Erlbaum.
Parker,D.& Song,M.(Eds) (2001). Rethinking 'Mixed Race'. London:Pluto Press.
Tizard,B.& Phoenix,A.(2002).Black, White or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage (revised edition).London:Routledge.
Zukin,C.,Keeter,SAndolina,M.,Jenkins,K.&Delli Carpini,M.X.(2006). A New Engagement? Political Participation,Civic Life,and the Changing American Citizen.New York: Oxford University Press.
Faulks,K.(2000).Citizenship.London: Routledge.
Byram,M.(2008). From Foreign Language Education for Intercultural Citizenship. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Students are also expected to consult original journal articles in this field. Two special issues of journals which have recently appeared are:  

Child Development, Volume 77, Number 5 (2006). Special Issue on ‘Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Child Development’.  

International Journal of Behavioral Development, Volume 31, No. 5 (2007). Special Issue on ‘Social Identity and Intergroup Attitudes in Children and Adolescents’.  

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Social Development

International Journal of Intercultural Relation

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