Transnational Social Review — A Social Work Journal (TSR) is accepting submissions for a special issue on the topic “Transnational Childhoods.”
For more information, download the call here: Call_for_Papers_Transnational_Childhoods
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CPP — Teaching Disability (Transformations special issue)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE,
TEACHING DISABILITY
TRANSFORMATIONS: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
Deadline: August 15, 2014
Sarah Chinn, Guest Editor
The editors seek articles (5,000-10,000 words) and media essays (overviews on books, film, video, performance, art, music, websites, etc. 3,000 to 5,000 words), and items for the “Material Culture of Teaching” section, that explore teaching disability. This issue will be guest edited by Sarah Chinn.
Submissions should explore strategies for teaching about disability in the classroom and in non-traditional spaces (such as the media and public discourse). We welcome jargon-free essays from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Transformations is a peer-reviewed semi-annual journal published by New Jersey City University which invites college teachers to take pedagogy seriously as a topic of scholarly articles.
Transformations publishes only essays that focus on pedagogy.
For submission guidelines go to: http://web.njcu.edu/sites/transformations/
Deadline: August 15, 2014
Queries welcome.
Possible topics for pedagogy-related articles:
- The politics of teaching disability
- Teaching about representations of disability in literature, film, and other arts
- Education and the ADA
- Teaching disabled veterans
- Teaching about disability in cross-cultural and international contexts
- The politics of special education
- Teaching disability activism
- Disability in the K-12 classroom
- Teaching disability in different disciplines
- Teaching disability in historical perspective
- Issues for disabled teachers/disabled students
- Teaching disability and gender
- Teaching disability and sexuality
- Teaching with/about/to cognitive and psychiatric disabilities
- Teaching race and disability
- Educating communities on disability
- Teaching Braille, teaching with audio texts
Past issues of Transformations include: Teaching Popular Culture, Teaching and Religion, Teaching Food, Teaching Feelings, Teaching Digital Media, Teaching Sex, and Teaching Earth. Please familiarize yourself with the journal before submitting. Read articles in previous journals. You can find them online via Proquest and Wilson.
Visit our website to order past issues.
Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format (7th ed.) as attachments in MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text format to: Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber Garvey, Editors, transformations@njcu.edu. Author(s) name and contact information should be included on a SEPARATE page.
CFP: Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts (CSAC) is a multidisciplinary international journal that publishes papers on children’s development in diverse social and cultural contexts in Asia Pacific region. CSAC’s paramount aim is to examine biological, emotional, cognitive, social, and cultural development of children; the role of social and cultural contexts, such as family, educare setting, school, and community, in children’s development; the interaction between development and context; and its theoretical and practical implications, including social policies for children.
We publish in February and August and are now accepting papers for
The submission deadline for publication in the August issue has been extended to July 30, 2014.
To submit, please visit our homepage at www.e-csac.org
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Editorial Board: http://www.e-csac.org/
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Important Features of CSAC:
Committed to SPEEDY review and publication
One of the most important features of CSAC is speedy review and rapid publication.
For all submitted manuscripts, we strive to complete the first round review within 3 weeks and publish and accepted manuscript within 6 months of initial submission.
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Authors’ Guidelines: http://www.e-csac.
- All manuscripts must be prepared in English.
- Review paper is warmly welcome.
- Submit your paper through the CSAC website: www.e-csac.org
- To expedite the review process, please format your reference as the guideline.
- Please visit journal homepage for more information and to view our issues.
New book series — Children and Youth in Popular Culture
New book series from Lexington Books, edited by Debbie Olson
More info
CFP: The Child in Media
Red Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org), an online, peer-reviewed,
international and interdisciplinary journal of the child image, seeks
submissions for the Fall 2014 issue (deadline September 15th, 2014).
Red Feather Journal seeks well-written, critical articles on any aspect of
the child image or image of childhood. The journal welcomes submissions that
examine a broad range of media: film, Television, the Internet, print
resources, art, or any other visual medium. Some sample topics include, but
are certainly not limited to: studies of images of children of color; child
as commodity; images of children in international films; political uses of
the child image; children in advertising; childhood as myth, visual
adaptations of children¹s literary works; child welfare images; images of
children and/in war or conflict; the child image in video games; images of
children and material culture; or any other critical examination of the
child image, or childhood, in a variety of visual mediums. Red Feather
Journal welcomes international submissions.
Red Feather Journal will also consider submissions of tasteful photo essays
or artistic works. Copyright information, including permission for use of
each image, must be included with the submission. Red Feather will not use
any image without the express written consent of its copyright holder.
Submissions to Red Feather Journal are accepted on a rolling basis. Red
Feather Journal is published twice a year and adheres to the MLA citation
system. Authors are welcome to submit articles in other citations systems,
with the understanding that, upon acceptance, conversion to MLA is a
condition of publication. Red Feather Journal is indexed through EBSCO host
and MLA bibliography.
Interested contributors please submit the paper, an abstract, and a brief
biography (with full contact information) as attachments in Word to
debbieo@okstate.edu
Deadline for submissions for the Fall 2014 issue is September 15th, 2014.
Childhood Explorer – CFP
ACEI’s new online publication, Childhood Explorer, is a wonderful way to provide the story behind your work in childhood studies. Please see the call for manuscripts.
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
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.