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Education at Child Studies

Child Studies provides education about children, childhood and the family, with a focus on children’s and young people’s social interaction and language, culture and consumption, and how childhood changes across time and space. With increased knowledge about children and young people, we can better understand their perspectives on the world around them.

The international, interdisciplinary master’s programme Child Studies offers the opportunity to explore the diverse social, cultural and material conditions of children’s lives. The programme provides advanced expertise on issues concerning children and their life conditions, and develops critical analysis of childhood as both an idea and a practice in different contexts.

Single-subject courses on children and childhood

Child Studies offers single-subject courses in areas such as the history of childhood, children’s perspectives and the child perspective, children’s rights, and more. These are suitable whether you are already a working professional, wish to complement your degree, build your own programme of study, or are simply keen to broaden your knowledge.

Contributions to many programmes

In collaboration with other departments, we contribute to teacher programmes and to education in social work, social anthropology, political science, special needs education, and more.

Single-subject courses

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Children's Cultural Heritage at Museums, 3 credits

How are children made visible at museums? This distance course provides tools to analyse how children are represented and engaged within cultural heritage institutions – and how museums can work in more inclusive ways.

More single-subject courses, in Swedish

Listening to children: Children's perspective and child perspective, 7.5 credits

The History of Childhood in a Changing World, 7.5 credits

Children, Culture, and Leisure, 7.5 credits

School and sexuality – from child to youth, 7.5 credits

Children and Young People as Health Actors, 7.5 credits

Children's Rights in Policy and Practice, 7.5 credits

International master's programme

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Child Studies, Master's Programme, 120 credits

Students learn to critically scrutinise, analyse and discuss political, cultural and scientific statements and assertions about children and childhood. Prepares you for work in organisations that deal with living conditions for children.

About studying at LiU

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Why study at Linköping University? LiU offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. Our students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

Single-subject courses

Linköping University offers courses at both undergraduate and master’s levels in a variety of study fields.

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Programme Director

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Lina Söderman Lago

Associate Professor, Docent

Director of Studies

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Judith Lind

Associate Professor

Administrator

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Ulrika Sjöberg

Administrator

Our unit and department

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Child Studies (TEMAB)

Education and research at Child Studies is about childhood and family with a focus on interaction and language, children's culture and consumption, and childhood over time and space, all to better see the perspectives of children and young people.
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Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)

In an increasingly complicated world, there is a need for researchers that can handle both breadth and depth, and can collaborate across disciplinary borders. Major societal questions are studied from an interdisciplinary perspective at TEMA.

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