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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Lecturer in Education – Univ. of Stirling
Lecturing Post available
SUMMARY:
Location: University of Stirling
Full Time Lecturer in Education
Grade 8
Closing date is midnight on 12 June 2014
The School of Education at University of Stirling, Scotland is seeking a Lecturer in Education with an Early Years and / or Childhood Studies specialism.
The Primary and Early Years Faculty is one of four faculties within the concurrent Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme at the University of Stirling.
This Faculty is unique in offering three specialisms in Early Years, The Environment and Modern Languages.
The successful applicant will contribute to research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. You will have a background in and enhanced knowledge of teaching in relevant contexts. You will need to demonstrate that you will have developed effective strategies to enhance teaching and learning. Proven ability to lead on curriculum development and work collaboratively with other practitioners and organisations to raise students’ achievement is essential. You will have a strong record of engagement in research and publication.
Play, Toys, War and Conflict conference, University of Greenwich, UK
“Play, Toys, War and Conflict”
Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation,
University of Greenwich
with the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past
May 16th 2014, 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Old Royal Naval College, SE10, 9LS, Queen Anne 075 and 080
This one-day conference relates the ongoing commemoration of the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and any aspect of war and conflict, to the themes of the Centre , and the associated “Multi-Cultural Toys” project. Themes include play and national and political identity, children’s competition over playthings, to war games, the psychological value or otherwise of enacting conflicts, and play as a survival strategy in war time. Stereotypes of gender and race, sexuality and disability will be considered.
Draft Programme
9.30 a.m. Registration and coffee Queen Anne 075
10 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
10.10 a.m. Dr Kathryn Gleadle (University of Oxford) “Playing at soldiers and doll volunteers: British loyalism and juvenile identities”
10.55.a.m. Dr Adrian Seville (Independent) “Changing Attitudes to War – the Evidence of Printed Board Games from France”
11.30 a.m. tea and coffee
11.50 a.m. Dr Jeff Bowersox (University of Worcester) “War Games, Colonialism, and Progressive Pedagogy in Germany before the First World War”
12.30 p.m. . Dr Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich) ,”War and Empire: Children’s materials and experiences, 1898-1919”
1p.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch
2 p.m. Alice Kirke (Institute of Education) “ Leisure, education and rural regeneration in the Young Farmers’ Club Movement, 1920-1940”
2.30 p.m. Anne Daniels (University of Virginia) “Why We Speak of War to You”: Coverage of World War II in Brazilian Children’s Periodicals
3.00 p.m. Panel: Toys, Play and Memory: Grimsby, Lebanon and Poland post-1945
Dr John Smith (University of Greenwich) Education and Play in Post-War Grimsby
Rania Hafez (University of Greenwich) Playing on the boundary: a childhood across cultures and borders
Dr Ewa Sidorenko (University of Greenwich) Play: Making Do without consumerism in Cold War Poland
4.15 p.m. tea and coffee
4.30 p.m.
Piotr Czosnyka, (Anglia Ruskin University) “A Toy Soldier in Britain 1945 to 1972: A Cultural History”, followed by:
Round Table discussion on toys, war, memory, and the future of play materials.
The conference will be followed by a networking event from 5.30 p.m. to which ALL are welcome.
To book a place at the conference, and/or networking event, or for any other queries, please e-mail playandrecreation@gre.ac.uk
CFP: Research Initiative on Young Children in Refugee Families
Call for Papers: Research Initiative on Young Children in Refugee Families
Submission deadline: May 30, 2014
The Migration Policy Institute’s (MPI) National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy is launching an interdisciplinary research initiative to examine the circumstances and well-being of young children in refugee families. While young children account for about one-fifth of U.S. refugee arrivals each year and many U.S.-born children live with refugee parents, research on refugees in the United States has largely focused on adults and their access to employment and social services. Less is known about the children of refugees and the risk and protective factors that promote their healthy development and academic success. The goal of the MPI research initiative is to encourage and support research on young children (birth to age 10) who are themselves refugees or who are the U.S.-born children of resettled refugee parents (i.e., the second generation).
As part of this work, MPI is soliciting papers by both established and young scholars working in forced migration, child development, education, public health, demography, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, economics, public policy, and other relevant fields. Papers documenting how these children are faring in the United States are welcomed, as are those offering comparisons between young children of refugees in the United States and other countries of resettlement, and those that shed light on the pre-resettlement experiences of first-generation refugee children resettled in the United States.
Support for this project has been provided by the Foundation for Child Development (FCD).
Paper Topics
The project’s broad areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to, the topics below. Suggestions for other topics are welcomed and encouraged.
- The living circumstances and well-being of young children of refugees, including family structure, housing conditions, caretaker human capital and employment, family income and poverty, and food security.
- Geographic patterns of resettlement, including geographic isolation/concentration, residential segregation, secondary migration from initial resettlement locations, quality of early care and education as well as elementary education in receiving communities, and availability of health and social services.
- Physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes for young children in refugee families, refugees’ children with disabilities, physical and mental health of parents and other members of the extended family as they relate to caretaking, child health insurance coverage, health-care utilization, and utilization of mental health services.
- Cognitive and socioemotional development of young children of refugees, their experiences in early care and education, preparation for school, and early experiences as well as achievement in school.
- Educational progress and, for English Language Learners (ELLs), language acquisition and maintenance of home language.
- Examination of the capacity, effectiveness, and changing roles of refugee resettlement agencies and other public and private institutions that integrate refugees and their children.
- Climate of reception for refugee families, including discrimination, perceived discrimination, and their effects on identify formation and child/family well-being.
- Evaluations of programs and interventions for young children of refugees, including programs specifically for refugees and their children and programs serving children of refugees as well as other children.
- Studies of children in refugee families in the United States as compared to other countries of resettlement.
- Predeparture living circumstances and experiences of refugee children later resettled in the United States, including access to formal education, health services, refugee camp experiences, and trauma exposure.
In all topic areas, papers that draw on data obtained through quantitative or qualitative methods with a national, local, or international comparative focus are welcomed.
Research Symposium and Publication
Selected papers will be presented at an interdisciplinary research symposium for scholars of this topic, hosted by MPI and FCD in November or December 2014, and subsequently widely disseminated as MPI publications. Authors will be expected to work with MPI staff both before and after the symposium to edit and finalize papers for publication.
Timeframe for Paper Proposals
All submissions must be made by May 30, 2014, with final drafts of selected papers due in September 2014.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit the following:
- Preliminary title
- Abstract up to 500 words
- Brief description of data sources (qualitative or quantitative)
- Brief description of population studied (age range, country of origin, and receiving country) and, if applicable, any comparison populations
- Current CV or brief biography indicating any current affiliations for each author*
*Papers with multiple authors will be considered.
Honorarium: An honorarium of $2,000 will be offered for completed papers presented at the symposium.
Submit paper proposals and any questions electronically to:
Kristen McCabe
Migration Policy Institute
kmccabe@migrationpolicy.org
202-266-1933
New Book – Tweening the Girl
Tweening the Girl: The Crystallization of the Tween Market.By Natalie CoulterPeter Lang: Mediated Youth Series. Tweening the Girl, challenges the accepted argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label, “tweens” and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of “capitalism’s most valuable customers”. Tweening the Girl, expertly traces the emergence of tween during this era as she slowly became known to the consumer marketplace as a lucrative customer, market and audience. It clearly illustrates how ‘tweenhood’ which is often assumed to be a natural category of childhood is actually a product of the industries of the youth media marketplace that began to position the preteen girl as a separate market niche that is notched out of the transitory spaces between childhood and adolescence. Relying predominantly upon a textual analysis of trade publications in the 1980s and early 1990s the book eloquently maps out the synergistic processes of the marketing, advertising, merchandising and media industries as they slowly began to take interest in the girl and began to define her as a tween; an empowered female consumer who is no longer a child but not quite a teen. |
| Natalie Coulter is an assistant professor of communication studies at York University. She is a founding member of ARCYP (Association for Research on the Cultures of Young People) and has published in a number of journals including the Canadian Journal of Communication and Juenesse. |
New Book: Kids on YouTube
Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies
by Patricia G. Lange | Left Coast Press, 2014
https://www.lcoastpress.com/
The book describes what kids learn (and what they don’t) when they hang out on the ‘Tube.
Henry Jenkins did a multi-part blog interview series with the author:
Part one: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/
Part two: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/
Part three: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/
Part four: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Ways With Video | 8
Chapter 2 Video-Mediated Friendships: specialization and Relational expertise | 32
Chapter 3 Girls Geeking out on YouTube | 63
Chapter 4 Mediated Civic engagement | 97
Chapter 5 Video-Mediated Lifestyles | 126
Chapter 6 Representational ideologies | 157
Chapter 7 On being self-Taught | 189
Chapter 8 Conclusion | 216
Appendix: Studying YouTube: An ethnographic Approach | 231
CFP – The media’s evolving role in sex education – Sex Education Journal
Sex Education journal — Special Issue
The Media’s Evolving Role in Sex Education
Entertainment media have long been identified as having a key role to play in education about sex and relationships.
All too often in studies of sexual learning the media have been assessed for their potentially negative effects on young people. For example, studies have correlated consumption of particular media forms with early sexual intercourse or teenage pregnancy, while parents and schools have been seen as providing a positive corrective.
However empirical research shows that this simple binary is not always accurate: in some instances entertainment media may offer positive information and representations while school or parents often offer more moralizing or conservative perspectives. For example, a young person growing up in a homophobic family may see happy queer characters in a sitcom; or young people attending a school thatemphasizes young women’s role as gatekeepers and controllers of men’s sexuality may find helpful TV dramas that explore women’s active sexual agency.
This special issue of the journal Sex Education will engage with these and related concerns, pausing to take stock of where we are now, especially with respect to the positive role that old and newer forms of media can play in learning about sex.
Papers may focus on any aspect of the entertainment media, and on any aspect of healthy sexual development – including, but not limited to, open communication about sex, assertiveness, sexual agency, sexual identity, or an acceptance that sex can be pleasurable.
If you are not sure whether your article is appropriate for this special issue, please feel free to send an abstract in the first instance toa.mckee@qut.edu.au
Peer review:
Articles for the special issue will be subject to normal peer review in line with the procedures of the journal.
Timeline:
You should submit yourarticle for review by the 24th October 2014. You can find the journal’s instructions for authors at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/
When you submit your article will be asked whether you are submitting for a special issue. Please use the pull-down menu to note that you are submitting your paper for the special issue The Media’s Evolving Role in Sex Education.Please also note in the manuscript of your article that you are submitting it for this special issue.
If you have any questions about the mechanics of submitting a paper for Sex Education you should find the answers in the guidelines for authors mentioned above.
More on the guest editors
Alan McKee is a Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, and leads the ‘Promoting Healthy Sexual Development’ research group at QUT. He is particularlyinterested in the relationship between media consumption and healthy sexualdevelopment. He has published in the Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior,International Journal of Sexual Health and Sex Education.
Sara Bragg is a Senior Research Fellow in the Education Research Centre at the University of Brighton. She is co-author of many books, reports and articles on young people’s cultures including Young People, Sex and the Media (with David Buckingham, 2004); co-editor of Children and Young People’s Cultural Worlds (with Mary Jane Kehily, 2013) and of Rethinking Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media (with Buckingham and Kehily, 2014) .
Tristan Taormino is an award-winning writer, sex educator, speaker, filmmaker, and radio host. She is the editor of 25 anthologies, author of seven books, and co-editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. As the head of Smart Ass Productions, she has directed and produced sixteen sex-ed films. Tristan’s work, writing and films are routinely used in college courses to explore the complex issues of relationship and sexual diversity, politics, and media.
CFP: Children and Young People in Times of Conflict and Change: child rights in the Middle East and North Africa, 5/15/14
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of Global Studies of Childhood
Children and Young People in Times of Conflict and Change: child rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Guest Editors: Debbie Watson (University of Bristol), Kristen Cheney (International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam) and Heba Raouf Ezzat (University of Cairo)
The aim of this special issue of the journal Global Studies of Childhood (Volume 5 Number 2 2015) is to bring together papers from established and emergent academics and practitioners who have direct experience and empirical data on the lives of children in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions, particularly since the Arab Spring revolutions. A critical focus will be on the role of children and young people in influencing political and cultural change in the region and the impacts upon them of conflict and political change.
There is an emergent academic literature and debates on the Arab Spring, children are largely absent from this literature. Although examples can be found in the works of Campante and Chor (2012); Gibbons, (2012); Joffe (2011); Nada and El Daw, (2010); Elkoussi and Bakheet, (2011); Ezbawy (2012); Ammar, (2009); Kotb et al, (2011), most of this literature focuses on either reporting the atrocities and poor quality of life of children in the region, or has a specific focus on the role of social media in the revolutions (Hassan, 2012, Stepanova, 2011, Herrera, 2011) and in particular the role of youth in political action (Youniss et al., 2013, Ezbawy, 2012, Wardany, 2012).
There is a need to tell the multiple unheard children’s and young people’s stories that have emerged in respect of their rights, their participation, and their diverse and varied childhoods within the contexts of political changes and conflicts in the region. This proposed special issue aims to provide a forum for these issues to be reported.
We are seeking abstract submissions that address the following objectives:
• Detail unheard research stories of children and young people’s lives in the MENA region;• Recognise the diversities of childhood experiences in the region related to dimensions of difference and intersectionality;• Challenge pathologising and stereotyped understandings of children and young people living in MENA countries;• Problematise media representations of young people’s involvement in political struggles in the region;• Identify and understand challenges in respect of children and young people’s rights and universal rights-based approaches based on the UNCRC in the MENA countries;• Consider ways in which professional education can enhance rights-based practices with and for children and young people;• Explore ways in which it is possible to effect policy changes for children and young people in the MENA region.
Please submit proposed titles and abstracts of no more than 500 words to Debbie Watson (corresponding editor) who will also be happy to discuss abstract ideas with potential authors.
Schedule
Abstracts submitted (500 words) May 15th 2014
Decision on papers to be included and notification to authors June 2014
Submission of first draft of paper Sept 30th 2014
Decision on papers and feedback to authors Nov 2014
Authors to submit final papers to editors Jan 30th 2015
Review all papers and finalize March 2015
To the publisher by April 15th 2015
References
AMMAR, N. H. (2009) The Relationship Between Street Children and the Justice System in Egypt. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 53, 556-573.
CAMPANTE, F. R. & CHOR, D. (2012) Why was the Arab world poised for revolution? Schooling, economic opportunities, and the Arab spring. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26, 167-187. ELKOUSSI, A. & BAKHEET, S. (2011) Volatile substance misuse among street children in Upper Egypt. Substance Use & Misuse, 46, 35-39.
EZBAWY, Y. A. (2012) The Role of the Youth’s New Protest Movements in the January 25th Revolution. IDS Bulletin, 43, 26-36.
GIBBONS, J. (2012) Roadmaps for social transformation: Arab spring. The Second ISA Forum of Sociology (August 1-4, 2012). Isaconf.
HASSAN, K. (2012) Making Sense of the Arab Spring: Listening to the voices of Middle Eastern activists. Development, 55, 232-238.
HERRERA, L. (2011) Egypt’s Revolution 2.0: The Facebook Factor, Jadaliyya
JOFFE, G. (2011) The Arab spring in North Africa: origins and prospects. The Journal of North African Studies, 16, 507-532.
KOTB, A. M., MOHAMED, A. G., ABDEL KHALEK, E. M. & YONES, D. A. (2011) Agricultural Labor among School Children in Rural Assiut, Egypt. Life Science Journal, 8, 332-339.
NADA, K. H. & EL DAW, A. S. (2010) Violence, abuse, alcohol and drug use, and sexual behaviors in street children of Greater Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. Aids, 24, S39-S44.
STEPANOVA, E. (2011) The role of information communication technologies in the Arab Spring. PONARS Eurasia, 1-6.
WARDANY, Y. (2012) The Mubarak Regime’s Failed Youth Policies and the January Uprising, IDS Bulletin, 43, 37-46.
YOUNISS, J., BARBER, B. K. & BILLEN, R. M. (2013) Children in the garden of democracy: The meaning of civic engagement in today’s Egypt. JSSE-Journal of Social Science Education, 12.