# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- demonstrate greater specialist knowledge and understanding of children’s and young people’s lives
- have a greater understanding of the social, historical, political, geographical, demographic, cultural and philosophical influences on young people’s lives
- draw on contemporarily relevant knowledge of how issues such as age, geography and class affect children and young people.

OpenLearn - Young lives: is now a good time to be young?
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