The Children’s Studies Program, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, welcomes applications for a full-time, tenure-stream, Assistant Professor position in Children’s Studies (Contemporary Global Youth Cultures). The application deadline is October 31, 2014, with a start date for the position of July 1, 2015. Continue reading Full-Time Tenure-Stream Assistant Professor Position – Children’s Studies (Contemporary Global Youth Cultures) – York University, Toronto, Canada
Yearly Archives: 2014
CFP: New Worlds of Adoption
Calling all Presentation Submissions – DEADLINE – Nov 3, 2014
LEARN MORE & APPLY HERE
Keynote:
Ann Masten, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, will highlight research on resilience in development with a focus on transitions to adulthood. Dr. Masten will be joined by three adult adoptees who are now in significant professional positions serving the adoption community:
— Astrid Dabbeni, Executive Director of Adoption Mosaic, Portland, OR
— Judith Eckerle, M.D., Pediatrician and Director of the Adoption Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota
— Nathan Ross, Project Coordinator for the Community Champions Network at the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
Conference will also include:
Panel Discussions, Topical Concurrent Sessions, and Posters Displaying Research and Programs.
Social Work CEU’s & Psychology CE’s will be available.
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* Please refer to our website for information about scholarship, poster & presentation submissions.
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CFP: “School Memories” International Symposium in Spain
New Trends in Historical Research into Education: Heuristic Perspectives and Methodological Issues
September 22-23, 2015 Seville, Spain
International Standing Conference on the History of Education (ISCHE)
Download the call for papers here.
Submission deadline is Dec. 31, 2014.
CFP: 1st New Zealand Childhood Studies Colloquium
Aotearoa’s trials and tribulations of UNCRC’s ‘play grounds’ in the past 25 years
Childhood Studies Colloquium
14 November 2014 9.30am – 4.30pm
Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland
New Zealand
Keynote address:
Emeritus Professor Anne B. Smith, University of Otago
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New release – Growing Up In Poverty: Findings from Young Lives
Edited by Michael Bourdillon and Jo Boyden
Palgrave MacMillan, 2014
This new book brings together the latest findings from Young Lives on how poverty affects children’s development and how children and their families respond to poverty in their daily decisions and daily lives. The book shows how, amid general economic growth, many poor children are being left behind despite, the promises of the Millennium Development Goals. While the universalisaton of education now means that most children attend school, at least for a while, children from disadvantaged backgrounds often experience poor-quality education and learn least in school, creating inequality of opportunity.
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ACYIG blog needs you!
We welcome submissions from ACYIG members for our blog!
The blog is a less formal venue for budding ideas, thoughts on critical issues that might not fit elsewhere, and a time-sensitive way to engage with a broader community of scholars and the public.
The topics are open, but here are a few ideas and possible themes:
- children/youth in the news — Experts on topics that are coming up a lot in the current news write about their take on current events, parse out the news coverage or what isn’t being addressed, give deeper ethnographic insight into what is at stake, perhaps provide historical perspective, etc.
- important issues related to children/youth that are NOT in the news — Things we know about as researchers that we wish had media coverage, and why.
- photography from the field / brief photo essays
- questions of ethics and the IRB — specifically in relation to research with minors and protected populations
- the “anthropology of childhood and youth” outside of typical anthropology departments
- status and future of being an “anthropologist of childhood/youth” in the U.S.; job advice & related
- “why study children?” – novel perspectives and creative applications for thinking about the relevance of our discipline
- notes from the field — open-ended reflections on research w/ kids
- kids’ perspectives on participating in research
- childhood and youth in popular culture, etc.
- summaries of discussions that occur on our listserv (or other such community resources)
Please note that submissions are screened internally and decisions about posting pieces are made quickly, so this is of course not a formal academic publication nor is it to be considered peer reviewed. It is, however, a great way to get more people to view your ideas and publicize your work, and to help publicize the anthropology of childhood and youth!
For more information on submitting to our blog, please contact Bonnie Richard at bonnie.olivia@gmail.com.
Seminar @ UCLan: Intersectionality in Young Men’s Accounts of Domestic Violence
Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm
University of Central Lancashire – School of Social Work
4 November 2014, 4-5.45pm, Brook Building room 8
Intersectionality in Young Men’s Accounts of Domestic Violence
Professor David Gadd
Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice Manchester University Law School
This paper argues for approaches to explaining domestic violence that are sufficiently nuanced enough for most men to be able to see both similarities and differences between themselves and other men who have described perpetrating assaults on women. It begins by outlining the instrumentalist assumptions that continue to inform key feminist approaches to explaining perpetrator behaviour. It then elaborates on how conceptual developments in the study of masculinities have challenged instrumentalist explanations without fully transcending the social determinism implicit in them. Using three young men’s narrative accounts the paper shows how domestic violence can be both instrumental and expressive at the same time – controlling and defensive – and that the meaning of such behaviours can often only be grasped by being alive to the gendered nature of social discourses, many of which are easily infused with racialized, disablist and class-based assumptions.
Professor David Gadd is Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Manchester University Law School. David has 15 years of experience of conducting and analyzing in-depth interview research with offenders, and has written extensively on the subjects of domestic abuse, masculinities and crime, racial harassment, offender motivation and desistance from crime. His first book, Psychosocial Criminology (co-written with Tony Jefferson) was published by Sage in 2007. His second book, Losing the Race (co-written with Bill Dixon) was published by Karnac in 2011. David is lead editor of the (2012) SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods (co-edited with Susanne Karstedt and Steven Messner).
Seminar is free. All welcome. Brook Building room 8. Refreshments provided.
To reserve a place go to EventBrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connect-centre-seminar-intersectionality-in-young-mens-accounts-of-domestic-violence-tickets-13026190687
Position in Early Childhood at U of Arizona
The University of Arizona College of Education announces a tenure-track position in Early Childhood Education. For more information, download the job posting here.