| 1 | 1. To make visible the difference between an approach that treats the child as an object of care and protection and one that treats the child as a rights-holder, and to establish the rights-based perspective as an analytical criterion throughout the course. |
| 2 | 2. To convey that childhood is not merely a biological stage but a historically and socially constructed category, and to make students aware that there is not one childhood but many, differentiated by class, gender, ethnicity, disability and place of residence. |
| 3 | 3. To enable students to relate the social and cultural value ascribed to children to family structure and to policy choices. |
| 4 | 4. To develop the analytical capacity to read Türkiye's child policy through its constitutional framework, development plans and strategy documents. |
| 5 | 5. To enable students to use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child — together with its four general principles and its monitoring mechanism — not as a text to be memorised but as a standard against which practice is tested. |
| 6 | 6. To introduce the principal legal instruments concerning children and their recent amendments, and to enable students to discuss critically the tension between the protective and the punitive orientations within this legislation. |
| 7 | 7. To develop an ecological perspective that locates risk not in the child but in the web of relationships surrounding the child, and to cultivate sensitivity to the stigmatising use of the label "child at risk". |
| 8 | 8. To instil the principles of a form of communication that is developmentally appropriate, non-leading, and centred on the child's own voice. |
| 9 | 9. To provide a comprehensive introduction to the network of child services and institutions in Türkiye, and to cultivate an awareness of the coordination required to prevent a case from being lost between systems. |
| 10 | 10. To develop the capacity to connect professional roles with the micro, meso and macro levels of intervention in social work practice with children. |