• 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.

Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights: 

Inaugural Issue:  Call for Submissions

Looking Back, Moving Forward:  Reflecting on 25 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.‏

The Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the topic of children’s rights. The Journal offers a forum for exchanging ideas and engaging in conversation regarding a range of issues relating to children’s rights. The Journal is international in scope and content and encourages diverse approaches to the subject.

We are currently accepting  manuscripts to be considered for the Journal’s inaugural issue that reflect a range of contributions including case-studies, comparative analyses, advocacy, and policy articles. We welcome manuscripts in English and French from academics, researchers, community partners and young people. Each manuscript submission will undergo a peer review process.  The editors will review youth submissions to verify their appropriateness to CJCR’s focus and scope.

The inaugural issue will commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).  For this Special Issue to be published in the fall 2014, we invite authors to consider the impact of the UNCRC for children’s lives in particular contexts from the past, in present circumstances, or to look ahead to how to envision the UNCRC in the future.

Proposals should consist of an abstract of 250 words and up to six keywords describing the article together with a short bio (300 words) and contact information for the author.

Original manuscripts should be approximately 8000 words plus references, double spaced, 12 point font, and using endnotes. We ask that manuscript submissions follow the American Psychological Association style guide. Consult the following link for details:

 http://www.library.carleton.ca/sites/default/files/research/subject-guides/library-guides/APA_2013.pdf

Please submit manuscripts to Virginia Caputo, CJCR managing editor (virginia_caputo@carleton.ca ).  They will be accepted on an ongoing  basis.  For the inaugural issue, the  deadline is  June 15, 2014.   For upcoming issues, we  will maintin  a rolling deadline structure  in order to maximise the potential of our digital platform.

Feel free to contact either Virginia Caputo at virginia_caputo@carleton.ca  or Landon Pearson at landon_pearson@carleton.ca with any questions. See journal page at:  https://journals.carleton.ca/cjcr

Greetings:

I am the book reviews editor for the Alberta Journal of Educational Research. “The Alberta Journal of Educational Research (AJER) is a quarterly journal, published in Canada, devoted to the dissemination, criticism, interpretation, and encouragement of all forms of systematic enquiry into education and fields related to or associated with education” (as cited athttp://ajer.synergiesprairies.ca/ajer/index.php/ajer/index). I am currently in search of book reviewers. If you are interested, please let me know. And, if you know of PhD students and candidates and colleagues able to review, please send along my request to them or send me their names. I ask that prospective reviewers send me their CV, a brief covering letter that lists affiliation (independent scholars welcomed!), regular mail address, contact information (especially e-mail address and telephone number), and book review interests. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or of anyone to whom I could send this call.

Thank you!
Best wishes,
Jon

Please see link below to download the call for papers for a thematic issue of Maternal and Child Health Journal considering maternal and child health in mountain communities. 

MACI Call for Papers – Mountain Communities[2]

Romanian Journal of Population Studies, a biannual pier-reviewed
publication, is looking for manuscripts about childhood in former European
communist countries for a special number scheduled to be printed in December
2014. The guest editor Luminita Dumanescu is looking for authors focused on
childhood in Hungary, Germany, former Czechoslovacia and former Yugoslavia.
Scholars from Russia, Poland, Albania and Romania announced their
participation in this editorial project.  The deadline for sending papers:
September 1st.
See our submission guidelines, current issue and back issues at:
http://centre.ubbcluj.ro/csp/rjps.html
Please contact Luminita Dumanescu (luminita_dumanescu@yahoo.com) for further
information.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

ISSN: 2288-601X

www.e-csac.org

 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 publication in the 2014 August issue.

To submit, please visit our homepage at www.e-csac.org

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Editorial Board: http://www.e-csac.org/html/sub02_01.asp

CHIEF EDITOR

Soon Hyung Yi, Seoul National University, Korea

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Catherine McBride-Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Feng-Ming Tsao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Gisela Trommsdorff, Universitat Konstanz, Germany

Ingrid Schoon, University of London, United Kingdom

Jean Phinney, California State University at Los Angeles, USA

Joseph Tobin, Arizona State University, USA

Judi Mesman, Leiden University, Netherlands

Jung-Sook Lee, University of New South Wales, Australia

Katariina Salmela-Aro, University of Helsinki, Finland

Kenneth H. Rubin, University of Maryland, USA

Leher Singh, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Marc H. Bornstein, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA

Masako Ishii-Kuntz, Ochanomizu University, Japan

Min Ju Kang, Yonsei University, Korea

Mutsumi Imai, Keio University, Japan

Myoung Soon Kim, Yonsei University, Korea

Paul E. Jose, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Robert E. Emery, University of Virginia, USA

Sara Harkness, University of Connecticut, USA

Sing Lau, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Yanjie Su, Peking University, China

MANAGING EDITOR

Grace Chung, Seoul National University, USA

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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.org/html/sub03_01.asp

+ 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.

Best Regards,

Editorial Office of CSAC

www.e-csac.org

Email: email.csac@gmail.com

UNRISD invites contributions from postgraduate students (Master’s degree and higher) to its Young Scholars Think Piece Series. The Series aims to provide promising young researchers with an opportunity to present their research on social development on a wider platform than is possible within a university setting, thereby contributing to the diversity of ideas within the development community. Preference is given to original pieces offering alternative perspectives, highlighting marginalized viewpoints and bringing neglected issues to the fore. Think pieces can be based on previously written essays, dissertations or theses. The think pieces are published on the UNRISD website and promoted through its social media networks. Successful participants will also receive a certificate, in pdf, to print out or use electronically.

Why participate?

There are good reasons for Young Scholars to send in a contribution to the Think Piece Series:

• Get feedback from UNRISD social development experts from a informed, critical point of view.
• Get published on the UNRISD website, which has over 40,000 subscribers.
• Get connected with the UNRISD network of academics, policy makers and civil society activists.
• Get recognized as a contributing scholar to United Nations research on social development.

Photo: Kent Yoshimura via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) 

First Edition: Extractive Industries

Calls for contributions to the Young Scholars Think Piece Series take place in thematically organized, time-bound editions. This current first edition has a submission period from February to 21 March 2014 and is based on the theme of Extractive Industries and Social Development.

To enable young scholars to feed into debates in this field, UNRISD invites think pieces that speak to issues relevant to social development in mineral-rich contexts and/or related to extractive industries such as:

• Human rights
• Environment
• Business/Corporate Social Responsibility
• Migration
• Gender
• Children
• Social Policy
• Social Development
• Communities/Local Development
• Indigenous Peoples

For background on related UNRISD work, please visit the following research project pages:

• Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development (www.unrisd.org/pdrm)
• Mobilizing Revenues from Extractive Industries: Protecting and Promoting Children’ Rights and Well-Being in Resource-Rich Countries (www.unrisd.org/eiandchildren)
• Mineral-Rents and the Financing of Social Policy (www.unrisd.org/publications/mineral-rents).