This is a question we are often asked by prospective students and offer holders!
We love that enthusiasm 🙂
Every module you study at the university will have its own reading list and all the materials on that list will be available to you in the university library – often/usually also in e-book format.
There is no particular ‘course reader’, although any introductory book relating to Childhood and Youth might be found helpful. This is one such recent text from our EDU1025 ‘Introduction to Childhood and Youth’ reading list. We also recommend this study skills guide (and study skills are well supported at the university through ‘skillshub’ and by our Learning Development and library colleagues, as well as course tutors).
So, let’s say you wanted to get a head start and begin reading up before the course began… what might you do?
There are some key websites that will be useful for staying abreast of current related issues. For example:
The Children’s commissioner’s website: LINK
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG): LINK
Young Minds website: LINK
The Department for Education: LINK
And you may wish to keep your finger on the pulse of current issues relating to children and young people through media reporting, through – for example – looking for ‘young people’ in the ‘society’ section of an online newspaper such as The Guardian: LINK
We hope these will give you some good options for getting you started with your course-related reading.