DOCTORATE PROGRAM IN SOCIAL SCIENCES: CHILDHOD AND YOUTH at Colombia
DOCTORATE PROGRAM IN SOCIAL SCIENCES: CHILDHOD AND YOUTH
Resolution 1454 of May 31, 2000 of the Colombian Ministry of National Education
Offering entities:
CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
National Participating Institutions:
Autonoma University of Manizales – University of Caldas – National Pedagogical University - University of Antioquia – UNICEF – Central University – Pontifical Javeriana University – Distrital University
International Participating Institutions
University of the Andes, Venezuela - Central University of Venezuela – Universidad del Nordeste de Argentina – Diego Portales University, Chile – Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil - Silva Henríquez Catholic University, Chile – Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Brazil – Latin American College of Social Sciences, FLACSO
- To skill autonomous researchers in the field of Social Sciences with an emphasis in Childhood and Youth, who will contribute to the construction of scientifically valid universal knowledge and particular knowledge characterized by its relevance and pertinence to
- To articulate research practice with research lines and programs that, at the same time, will contribute to the advance of knowledge in Social Sciences in the particular fields of Childhood and Youth, and that will contribute to the formulation of policies and design of programs with an impact in the standards of living of boys, girls and youths in Latin America.
- To promote the participants’ written production culture, the publication and public confrontation with academic peers in both national and international scenarios.
- To provide the participants with a deep knowledge about successful projects and practices in the fields of childhood and youth in
- To advance and prioritize the fields of childhood and youth in the public agenda by defining an impact on public policies from knowledge generated in the doctorate program.
CONCEPTUAL AXES
- The “Epistemological – Methodological” guiding axis that is developed in the course of the program works on various epistemological, scientific, anti-scientific and anti-epistemological reflection frameworks that will serve the group as an interpretative point of departure and that will allow to determine mediation, potentialities and obstacles to the obtaining, interpretation and application of research information concerning childhood and youth. This axis develops those research approaches, models and methods that will contribute to the advancement in social sciences and in cultural studies.
The four conceptual axes that will develop the theoretical perspective of the doctoral program are as follows:
- The “Childhood and Youth: Contexts and Policies in Latin America and Colombia” axis deals with the generation of knowledge that will promote the comprehension of reality and the construction of attention policies for childhood and youth, that, at the same time, will simultaneously permit to overcome exclusion conditions and to create the conditions that the country needs to fairly and continuously participate in the globalization and change processes that characterize contemporary society. This axis is developed into two topics: “Context and national and international policies in childhood and youth” and “Theories, approaches and models of development and social management”.
- The “Childhood and Youth from the Perspective of Integral Human Development” axis, from an integral perspective (social, affective, physical, cognitive, political, etc.), is oriented towards the configuration of a theoretical and methodological framework that will contribute to the generation of policies and the design of innovating care programs for childhood and youth based upon human development. Concomitantly, this axis aims at generating knowledge concerning development profiles, child rearing guidelines and childhood socialization processes as the basis to design pertinent programs. It is developed into two topics: “neurosciences and cognition” and “Identity construction, moral development and political socialization”.
- The “Education, Communication and Culture” axis is oriented towards the reflection on the role of the education-communication-culture combination in the development, modernization and acculturation of the country and of Latin America in the XX century, thus, inviting to approach such a relation in an integral way and to project it creatively and critically towards the various spaces of society that are directly related to it. It defines a dialogue of scenarios such as the school, family, mass media and the various practices of daily culture with the imaginaries of boys, girls and youths in the cultural reordering processes. The axis is developed into two topics: “Comprehension framework to approach the articulation of education, communication and culture” and “Intervention alternatives that articulate the education-communication-culture relation with the childhood and youth work: Practices and scenarios”.
- The “Childhood and youth as knowledge objects” axis is oriented towards the analysis and reflection on contemporary developments on the childhood and youth categories from transdisciplinary perspectives, with reference to boys, girls and male and female youths as agents in the processes dealing with the construction of their own subjectivity, their interaction plots, the contexts and scenarios where they exert their full citizenship, such as the historical processes concerning the configuration of conditions that visibilize nowadays these categories as knowledge objects in social sciences. It is developed into two topics: “Childhood: A Contemporary Perspective” and “To be young today: a reflection from the perspective of cultures-subjectivities-powers relation”.
PARTICIPANTS’ ADMISSION, STAY REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLING EXPECTATIONS
The participants in the “Doctorate Program in Social Sciences, Childhood and Youth” are considered aspirants until the third year of study when they will have met the following requirements:
To have passed all the courses in the first two years of the program, have demonstrated their reading comprehension ability in English, to have had their research project approved by national and international juries and have submitted a scientific circulation article that can be published concomitantly with their thesis project. From this moment the aspirants are considered doctoral candidates.
This program is open to Colombian and Latin American professionals in social sciences, education and health sciences, who have complied with all admission requirements, with a Master’s degree in any area related to the doctoral program, and who
- are seriously involved in any of the following fields: knowledge production, human talent training, policymaking, program administration and execution of projects in
- have previous experience in research and development work, connected to institutions and innovating projects or programs concerning processes of Human, Educational and Social Development of Colombian and Latin American Childhood and Youth,
- are open-minded and interested in knowing about new ideas and points of view and are willing to interact with national and international academic peers and whose interest in research, learning processes and their impact on the standards of living of Colombian and Latin American boys, girls as well as male and female youths is greater than the interest in getting a doctoral degree as a requirement for social promotion.
- have the time availability required by the program with reference to study, research, academic production, mentories, tutories, virtual activities, attendance to four two-week yearly gatherings each. Foreigners are required to attend only two yearly gatherings, although their participation in the four events is desirable.
CURRICULAR COMPONENTS
The program is developed in eight articulated curricular components:
- The individual DISSERTATION by each participant all along the program, as an original contribution to expand knowledge frontiers.
- The individual TUTORY with a doctor to each participant aiming at the development and confrontation of their dissertation, along with the advisory of an international specialist, through permanent contact in personal meetings or by virtual means.
- The RESEARCH LINE SEMINARS, with theoretical, methodological and individual production confrontation goals, from the perspective of the permanent work with the program-related academic community.
- The INTERNATIONAL PRACTICUM as an experience to widen each participant’s perspective and to enrich their theoretical and practical search as a contribution to their dissertation.
- The DISSERTATION SEMINAR that is implemented permanently in the third year of the program. It is entirely oriented towards the development of the dissertation from the dissertation project approved by national and international peers, as one of the main conditions to become a doctoral candidate.
- The INDIVIDUAL STUDY of bibliography suggested by the faculty staff or resulting from each participant’s specialized searches as preparatory work or as a way to deepen in the conceptual bases and developments of the core subjects and field work according to the character of the dissertation.
- The SEMINAR SESSIONS with national and international presenters in the first two years of the program, while the required course subjects are being developed.
- The WRITTEN PRODUCTION in the protocols concerning each participant’s seminars, papers, essays, monographies and other documents, with the aim to demonstrate the achievement of competences in the various themes and in the advance of the dissertation.
DEGREE CONFERRED UPON
Minimal duration: three (3) years
Enrollment Fee:
Abroad: US160
September 3rd, 2008
