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This course will focus on the interlinked modernity projects in China, Japan, and Korea and the historical, political, and economic forces that link the education of youth with projects of national development and international economic competition. Education as broadly conceived is not limited to activities that take place in the institutional context of schooling but it also includes pedagogies of citizenship and programs of human engineering in the reform of populations as a project of national development. This course will focus on how the time of childhood and youth has been synchronized into universalizing conceptions of development and modernity at different moments in the history of East Asia: under the banner of "civilization and enlightenment" in the early part of the 20th century, in the modernization projects of mid-century,and more recently in debates about "globalization." Although the emphasis of the course will be on contemporary debates about youth and globalization, these national histories will be introduced as a necessary background for understanding the present.

Winter 2007 • Jane Dyson • SISSA 490A

This interdisciplinary course explores childhood and youth in South Asia. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part — ‘Orientations’ — we discuss theoretical approaches to studying childhood and youth in South Asia. The second part of the course is built around a set of themes relevant to an understanding of children’s and young people’s lives in the South Asian region, namely: work, education, violence, and health. The final part of the course — ‘Representing Youth’ — is concerned with issues of how young people are represented and represent themselves, and the political implications of these representations.

Autumn 2006 • Craig Jeffrey • GEOG 343/SISSA 343a

This course examines how young people are responding to processes of global change. It examines how three “key global processes” — increased formal education, economic restructuring, and changing health regimes — are reshaping people’s experiences of youth, with particular reference to the US, South Asia and South Africa.

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Autumn 2006 • Ann Anagnost and Andrea Arai • ANTH 469/SISEA 490a

This comparative course on East Asia (China, Japan and Korea) explores the historical, political, and economic forces of international competition that link education with projects of national development in East Asia and the U.S. A focus on the converging crises of youth, education, and labor will provide undergraduates in their senior year with a deeper historical understanding of how these interconnections have been constituted and how their own futures are intertwined with those of East Asian youth.

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