Childism and Archiving the Climate Movement (ECM180)


Course description for study year 2025-2026. Please note that changes may occur.

See course description and exam/assesment information for this semester (2024-2025)
Facts

Course code

ECM180

Version

1

Credits (ECTS)

5

Semester tution start

Spring

Number of semesters

1

Language of instruction

English

Content

This challenge asks participants to propose future solutions that could help historians write about child and youth contributions to the early 21st-century climate movement. Although children and youth play important roles in social change, their voices and age remain marginal in most historical research. The difficulty often lies in the limited access to sources about and created by children and youth. Participants will therefore engage, investigate, and propose ideas for how future historians could better capture these contributions and forms of activism.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

The candidate has knowledge of

- critical developments in the history of children and childhood.

- early 21st century children’s climate activism

- the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) method.

- basic archival work (collecting materials, cataloging, giving keywords, etc.)

 

Skills:

The candidate can

- apply critical knowledge to read historical scholarship and analyze primary historical sources.

- apply the CBL method to propose an online archive of children's part in the climate movement.

- use an online platform to present the results and primary sources collected to the public and/or future historians.

 

General outcome:

The candidate can

- understand the challenges faced by historians of children and childhood and the importance of including age an analytical category in historical analysis.

- can apply the CBL method to finding multidisciplinary solutions.

Required prerequisite knowledge

None

Recommended prerequisites

No prerequisites

Exam

Learners will be assessed based on a total of three assignments:



  • One online team presentation with jury feedback,


  • One team submission in a digital format,


  • One individual process report of 1000 - 1200 words.


All assignments are obligatory to complete the course and must be passed. In case candidates or teams do not pass a particular assignment, they can resubmit it without having to do all the assignments again. All assignments have equal weight and will only result in an overall pass/fail grade i.e., there is no further grading system.

Each team will make a 10-minute online presentation for a jury and receive feedback. The teams shall revise their presentations considering the feedback and submit it in a digital format. Teams can have a maximum of 5 participants. Each participant will submit an individual process report separately based on guidelines that will be given in the introductory session.

Coursework requirements

Participation in the 5-day programme at the University of Stavanger, Arkivenes Hus and Barn Museum Stavanger and online sessions are compulsory activities. Self-study assignments are designed to support participation and multidisciplinary work aimed at resolving the challenge. Students who do not participate in minimum 80% activities will not be permitted to take the course exams. Hybrid participation is possible.

Course teacher(s)

Course coordinator:

Tanu Biswas

Study Adviser:

Kjetil Endresen

Open for

Exchange programme ECIU University

Course assessment

The faculty decides whether early dialogue will be held in all courses or in selected groups of courses. The aim is to collect student feedback for improvements during the semester. In addition, a digital course evaluation must be conducted at least every three years to gather students’ experiences.

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