Peter Hollindale’s Signs of Childness in Children’s Books (1997), 20 years on.
Day Symposium, 05/05/2017
Department of Education, University of York (UK)
H/G21, The Eynns Room
I wish to argue here that childness is the distinguishing property of a text in children’s literature, setting it apart from other literature as a genre, and it is also the property that the child brings to the reading of a text. Continue reading CFP – Symposium: Any Signs of Childness?
Hi ACYIG members! Have you been looking for a creative new course assignment to get students excited about the anthropology of children and youth? Or have you felt like your anthropology students’ written submissions could benefit from a broader audience? How about asking students to write and comment on blog posts? The ACYIG blog can publish your students’ work in a special student blog series. Continue reading Seeking Student Contributions for the ACYIG Blog
Children’s and teenagers’ food practices in contexts of poverty and inequality
Guest Editors: Wendy Wills (University of Hertfordshire) & Rebecca O’Connell (Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL)
Contemporary concern with food security and nutritional diets indicates that food and eating are particularly important for children and young people. Children’s and young people’s consumption of food is materialised and made manifest in their physical, emotional and mental health, and intersects with self-esteem and body image, both of which become more salient as they mature. Continue reading CFP: Special issue of Children & Society 2018
First issue of 2016 now out, with a section on the second Research Seminar
Journal of Playwork Practice (JPP), published in association with Common Threads, is the first academic journal in the playwork field and provides an international platform for the publication and dissemination of scholarship relevant to playwork practice. The journal is available as a print journal with an online version. Continue reading Journal of Playwork Practice: Vol 3 No 1 now out
Continue reading Conference: Children’s and Young People’s Rights in the Digital Age
In Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call “style” anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Tamil Nadu, Nakassis explores the complex ways that acts and objects of style such as brand fashion, English slang, and film representations express the multiple desires and anxieties of this generation, who live in the shadow of the promise of global modernity. Continue reading New book – Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India 
The Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) seeks an Associate Editor for the Journal of Research in Childhood Education (JRCE). ACEI seeks a highly respected education researcher for this position, which will be a volunteer, professional appointment within the field. Continue reading Call for Applications – Journal of Research in Childhood Education Associate Editor
We are pleased to announce the third Journal of Playwark Practice Research Seminar, Playwork: Law and Lore, to be held at the University of Buckingham on 5th November 2016. We have a great line-up of speakers and the event will also include playwork’s first SIG, which will explore how researchers and playwork practitioners can work together. Continue reading Research Seminar – Playwork: Law and Lore