The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation
www.uclan.ac.uk/cypp

Monday 12 May
4-5.30pm, Harrington Building room 337

Embedding children and young people’s participation in health and social care, presented by Louca-Mai Brady, University of the West of England

Using youth led research to create change in the NHS, presented by Dan Moxon, People Dialogue and Change

This seminar is free and refreshments are provided.  Seminars usually finish by5.30pm and are followed by an informal meeting of The Centre, at which all are welcome.

To reserve a place go to Eventbrite at:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-centre-seminar-embedding-cyp-participation-change-in-the-nhs-tickets-10332939099  Reservation will assist us with ordering refreshments and notifying you of late changes.

For all other queries email thecentre@uclan.ac.uk

Dear Colleagues,

The « Sciences de l’enfance, enfants des sciences » group is pleased to invite you to the Ateliers Campus Condorcet, a series of workshops on “Epistemology, methods, and history of the sciences of childhood.”

The first two workshops will be held on March 27 (“Feelings and Emotions“) and April 7 (“Kinship and Parenthood“) from 14h to 17h, at the bâtiment Le France, 190 av de France 75013 Paris, 638 room.

Registration is required (sciencenfance@gmail.com)

Please see the attched program, and kindly disseminate it in your networks.

We are looking forward to meet you there.

Best,

the organizing committee,

Giuseppe Bolotta (U. de Milan Bicocca) giuseppeitaly@hotmail.it

Damien Boone (U. Lille 2/Ceraps) damien.boone@yahoo.fr

Gladys Chicharro (U. Paris 8, EXPERICE) gladys.chicharro-saito@univ-paris8.fr

Natacha Collomb (CNRS, CASE) natacha.collomb@cnrs.fr

Dorothée Dussy (CNRS, Centre Norbert Elias) ddussy@ehess.fr

Alice-Sophie Sarcinelli (EHESS/Iris) sarcinel@ehess.fr

Children and the City

The 5^th Annual Conference of the Program for the Master Degree in the Research of Child and Youth Culture with The Sha’ar Zion – Beit Ariela  Municipal Library

March 25^th, 13:00-18:30 Tel Aviv University

From Athens to the White City: A History of Urban Childhood

March 26^th, 13:00-18:45

Childhood and Youth in Urban Culture

The Program for the Master Degree in the Research of Child and Youth Culture and the Sha’ar Zion – Beit Ariela Municipal Library cordially invite the public to a two day conference titled Children and the City. The first day of the conference will explore the history of urban childhoods, from Athens through Victorian London to 20^th century Tel Aviv. The second day will provide a panoramic picture of childhoods in contemporary Tel Aviv, as a case study for modern urban childhoods.

*the conference will be conducted in Hebrew*

For further details and full program: http://tinyurl.com/nm35xbs

Please join us for the final seminar in the series: Childhood, rights, research ethics and critical realism: New ways to research childhood with Priscilla Alderson, Professor Emerita of Childhood Studies, Institute of Education:

New ways to research childhood: Research ethics and critical realism

Thursday 13th March, 5.30-7.30, Room 736, IOE, 20 Bedford Way, London

Are justice, respect and avoiding harm universal concepts, or are they simply local ideas that vary in time and place? How can critical realist concepts of being and knowing, and of the four planes of social being, inform research ethics and how they are applied? How do ethics in natural science and in social science research overlap or differ?

To register and for more information contact Rachel Rosen: r.rosen@ioe.ac.uk.
For more information about the MA Sociology of Childhood and Children’s Rights:http://www.ioe.ac.uk/study/PMA9_CHD91M.html

Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation
University of Greenwich
Multi-Cultural Toys seminar series

Wednesday, February 26th, 2-3:30p.m. – Dr Marianna Papadopoulou (University
of Greenwich)
Avery Hill Campus, Bexley Rd, London SE9 2PQ

“Intentionality and cultural evolution: young children’s play themes in a
Greek reception class”

This study examines the evolutionary function of childrenąs pretence. The
everyday, cultural environment that children engage with is of a highly
complex structure. Human adaptation, thus, becomes, by analogy, an equally
complex process that requires the development of life skills. Whilst in role
play children engage in Śmimesisą and recreate the ecology of their world in
order to gradually appropriate its structures, role play enables them to
create their group cultures, through which they communally explore and
assign meaning to their worlds and themselves within it.

The research took place in a Greek state school and employed participant and
non-participant observation of the childrenąs role play sessions. The
findings, grouped under four thematic categories, may reflect the playersą
adaptation and evolutionary processes but also the expression of their
deeply rooted, existential concerns at that particular stage of their
development.
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I am writing with details of a seminar on Global Learning and Global Citizenship to be held at The V&A Museum of Childhood on Monday 3rd March 2014.

– Global Learning and Global Citizenship: discussions on the roles of fundraising and campaigning in schools

– Intellectual Frameworks Seminar at the V&A Museum of Childhood
– 3 March 2014

– 5.30pm-7.45pm

This seminar has been convened as part of the AHRC ‘Child in the World’ collaborative programme between the Museum of Childhood and Queen Mary.

The seminar interrogates the way in which ‘Global Learning’ is shaped by campaigning and fundraising activities in schools, and how this impacts on children’s ‘Global Citizenship’. Discussions will focus on NGO approaches, teaching approaches and the progress of the DFID funded ‘Global Learning’ programme in schools.

Speakers include Dr Alex Standish from the Institute of Education, education practitioners from the Association of Citizenship Teaching and the Royal Geographical Society, and NGO practitioners from Comic Relief and Plan International UK.

For more details on the schedule and the speakers, please see: http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/whats-on/events-and-activities/seminar-global-learning-and-global-citizenship

To book a free place, please e-mail mocbookings@vam.ac.uk or phone  020 8983 5205

I hope you can come along. Please could you also forward this to any colleagues and students who may be interested, and to any relevant networks.

Please join us for the second seminar in the series ‘Childhood, rights, research ethics and critical realism: New ways to research childhood’ with Priscilla Alderson, Professor Emerita of Childhood Studies, Institute of Education

Children’s rights, citizenship and critical realism 

11^th February 2014 (NB. Date has changed from original announcement), 5.30-7.30

Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London

Do universal rights really exist, or are rights simply local ideas that vary in time and place? When do ‘human’ rights begin in life? Do they gradually develop up towards adulthood, or can babies have human rights and be citizens? How can critical realist concepts of being and knowing, and of the four planes of social being, inform research about rights and citizenship?

To register for the seminar and for more information contact Rachel Rosen: r.rosen@ioe.ac.uk.