Childhood and youth studies is one of the uks fastest growing academic disciplines the ou is a pioneer in this field and over the last 15 years has developed this wide ranging interdisciplinary degree for anyone working with children and young people or with a general interest in the field. The open university uk is a pioneer in this field and over the last 15 years has developed this wide ranging interdisciplinary childhood and youth studies honours degree for anyone working with children and young people or with a general interest in the field. To link theory to praxis by engaging students in multidisciplinary opportunities for research advocacy and professional development in traditional non traditional and emerging areas of children and youth studies. Childhood and youth studies liberal studies childhood and youth studies engages the issues concepts and debates that illuminate the lived experience of children and the wider social economic cultural and political factors that condition that lived experience as well as childhood itself as a social and historical construct. The module introduces you to the sociology of childhood and youth in particular core sociological theories the historical and contemporary construction of childhood and key concepts such as class and stratification gender and ethnicity will be explored