About the specialisation
Our world is rapidly changing, bringing about new opportunities as well as risks and uncertainty. Major social changes such as digitalisation, blurring of boundaries between formal and informal learning, migration and new forms of inequalities are intensifying. In this context, no country can afford to neglect their younger generation’s education, upbringing and general wellbeing as future citizens.
Do you want to examine the current and emerging issues that concern children and youth? Do you want to explore innovative ideas and perspectives to educate children and young people?
Education and Social Change: Childhood and Youth Studies (ESCY) is one of the specialisations in our international Master’s in Education programme. It focuses on international studies of children and youth with reference to the ‘Nordic Education Model’, and treats childhood and youth, the two formative phases in life, as a continuum.
We will address topics and issues such as:
- The implications of growing up in a digital culture
- The making of new social inequalities concerning children and youth
- The impacts of migration on children and youth
- Long-term and sustainable policy concerning children and youth
You get the opportunity to study under the guidance of excellent academic experts in childhood and youth studies. The specialisation has teaching staff from the following research groups at our department: