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Children's Health and Quality of Life: A Rights-Based Perspective
Nori Peter: Inuit Children
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This course provides a critical analysis of children's health in the broadest of conceptualizations. Students will explore multiple influences on children's health, as impacted upon by contemporary culture and children's culture. The ethos of this course is the respect of children and youth as human beings, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child (UNCRC) is viewed as the most important social determinant of health for children. Concepts including ageism, human rights and citizenship underpin all course conversations. Students will engage in experiential education/ community activism regarding children's health, i.e. there will be some field work associated with this course. Areas of inquiry include but are not limited to: advocacy, children's rights to health, to health care and within health care institutions/settings, consent and capacity, autonomy, paternalism, racism, ageism, youth-centered care, violence/abuse, mental health, body image/sizeism, sexuality, identity, gender roles, homelessness, education, marginalization as violence, indigenous children and youth movements. The course will involve community based learning, direct learning from youth, tests, and creative/aesthetic expressions of student scholarship in the form of film, photography and other creative modalities.
Course Concepts Include:
- - Child, Children, Youth
- - Health
- - Children's Rights
- - Quality of Life
- - Social Determinants of Health
- - Health Promotion, Advocacy, Healthy Public Policy
- - Community Development and Activism
- - Child and Youth Centredness
- - Social Justice
- - Age, Ageism, Citizenship
- - Consent and Capacity
- - Voice
- - Thinking Upstream
- - Marginalization, Oppression and Health
- - The intersectionalities of gender, race, class, abilities, sex and sexualities, age, religion, etc
- - Sizeism, Heterosexism, Classism, Racism, Ableism, Eurocentrism
- - Gender as a Social Construct
- - Power/Freedom/Agency/Authenticity
- - Intersectionality
- - Consciousness Raising
- - The Personal is Political
