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Welcome to the master Youth, Education and Society (YES).
This information is meant for students who have chosen to study the programme Youth, Education and Society.
At this page you can find all the information that is needed to successfully participate in the Master’s programme, for example: the set-up of the programme, the courses, the elective parts, the rules within the programme and a lot of more specific information.
We recommend to extensively read this page. You can consult the STIP when you still have practical questions after reading concerning for instance, registration study result issues. For more content related questions about the programme you can consult the secretary of YES via Master.YES@uu.nl.
‘Youth, Education and Society’ (YES), in Dutch: Maatschappelijke Opvoedingsvraagstukken (MOV) is an academic Master's programme in the field of youth and education, focusing on social and policy issues that connect education, youth issues and child care to issues relevant to the society as a whole.
Systems, facilities, and policies aimed at youth at large are studied in the light of ever-changing societal and socio-cultural contexts. Important questions surrounding changing demands imposed on identities, social relationships, competences and qualifications of children, adolescents and their educators are analysed in this Master’s programme.
As part of this analysis, socio-critical, ethical, and philosophical aspects play an important role. In addition, we focus on professionals’ conduct within these systems and the policies surrounding childrearing.
Within the Master's programme students can choose between three tracks:
- Youth Policy, Education and Prevention (YEP)
- Pedagogy and International Development (PID)
- Education For Inclusive Societies (EFIS)
All students follow the same courses, however the following courses have track specific elements.
- YES01: Paradigms & Practices: your seminars are track specific, but not the lectures
- YES05: Academic Professional: track specific master classes
- YES06: Internship (12,5 ECTS): track specific internship offers
- YES07: Thesis (20 ECTS): track specific choices to make
- YES08: Practical (2,5 ECTS): you do the practical with students from your track
The aim of this programme is to gain specialised knowledge, skills, and insights in the field of youth, education and society.
Our goal is…
- to teach you to become a critical thinker in pedagogy, able to distinguish, evaluate and apply theoretical perspectives and to train you as an interdisciplinary pedagogue, making links to anthropology, sociology, psychology, and educational sciences;
- to become a skilled academic researcher;
- to enable you to make the link between scientific knowledge and practice and to enable you to contribute from academic knowledge to practice related issues such as intervention programmes and policy issues;
- to be able to analyse, research and apply your expertise from an international and global perspective.
The competencies specific to the profession include:
- analysing issues related to youth, education and society based on academic insights;
- conducting and evaluating scientific research;
- designing, implementing, and evaluating policies and interventions relating to youth, education and society issues;
- preparing for academic professional practice as a pedagogue in the field of youth, education and society.
The following is intended with the programme:
- to acquire specialised knowledge, skills and understanding in the field of youth and education as related to societal issues. The specialised skills concern:
- analysing issues of youth and education in the context of societal perspectives based on scientific insights;
- conducting and evaluating scientific research;
- designing, carrying out and evaluating policy and interventions youth and education as related to societal issues.
- preparing for scientifically informed pedagogical professional in the area of youth and education as related to societal issues.
Knowledge and understanding
Graduates of the Master’s programme Youth, Education and Society have knowledge and an understanding of the key current issues in the field of Youth, Education and Society, including those in which the student gains practical experience during the Master’s programme:
- objects of study are collective behaviour (behaviour of young people, parents, professionals), pedagogical infrastructures (systems of childcare, education, care, sports, recreation), policy and regulations as related to youth, education and society and public opinion and public debates related to youth, education and society;
- theories and models in the field of Youth, Education and Society, that build on the knowledge gained during the Bachelor’s programme and surpasses/intensifies the final level of the Bachelor’s programme. This concerns knowledge of theories on collective behaviour and effective strategies for changing collective behaviour; knowledge of theories on organisations and effective strategies for innovation in organisations; knowledge of theories on policy, policy development and effective strategies for policy change. Moreover, it concerns knowledge of the different paradigmatic approaches in these fields;
- the way in which interventions, programmes, and policies with regard to (inter)national social and pedagogical issues are designed, evaluated, and analysed;
- how theories and models, as well as interventions, programmes, and policies in the field of youth, education and society can be applied in an intercultural, comparative, and global context;
- ethical aspects of performing at the level of an academic professional, including those related to issues of diversity, inequality, and inclusion;
- the position of theories, topics, interventions, policies, and research related to youth, education and society in an internationally comparative perspective.
Application of knowledge and understanding
Graduates of the Master’s programme in Youth, Education and Society are able to:
- analyse issues of Youth, Education and Society as an interaction of various socio-ecological systems, both theoretically and empirically;
- analyse (the pedagogical principles underlying) policy papers, legislation, regulations, and public debates on (inter)national issues in the domain of Youth, Education and Society;
- design, carry out and evaluate pedagogical and educational interventions at project, system, and policy levels;
- steer organisations and networks of organisations, and coordinate professionals;
- report on analysis, intervention, and evaluation for scientific, professional, and public administration/political audiences;
- analyse (inter)national issues of Youth, Education and Society based on scientific insights;
- conduct and evaluate scientific research;
- design, carry out and evaluate policy and interventions geared towards (inter)national issues of Youth, Education and Society;
- apply ethical aspects of performing at the level of an academic professional, both scientifically and professionally.
Opinion forming
Graduates of the Master’s programme in Youth, Education and Society are able to:
- contribute in a critically reflective way to public debates on (inter)national issues of Youth, Education and Society in popular media;
- reach a scientifically valid opinion on complex and/or relatively unknown situations in the field.
Communication
Graduates of the Master’s programme in Youth, Education and Society demonstrate:
- an honest and critical attitude concerning research projects and results;
- a respectful, inclusive, business-like, and responsible attitude towards (culturally or otherwise diverse) colleagues, clients, respondents, and the general public.
Learning skills
Graduates of the Master’s programme in Youth, Education and Society have:
- insight into and the ability to reflect on their own conceptual framework, their own academic schooling and social position, taking account of different social and cultural contexts;
- the willingness to continue to learn, further develop themselves and contribute to the field of study as their career progresses;
- an understanding of and the ability to reflect on their own learning process and academic career, and the ability to link consequences to both by adding to their competencies.
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