The Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that the 2013 Winter Issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is now available.

The following sections are open access:

– Editorial, “The Child of Nature and the Home Child” by Mavis Reimer
– Review essays by Rose-May Pham Dinh, Naomi Hamer, and Laurel J. Felt

Articles in this issue include:

– Zetta Elliott’s “The Trouble with Magic: Conjuring the Past in New York City Parks”

– Virginie Douglas’s “Charlotte Sometimes de Penelope Farmer, entre Histoire nationale et histoire individuelle, identité collective et identité personnelle”

– Frosoulla Kofterou’s “Mickey Mouse Gas Masks and Wonderlands: Constructing Ideas of Trauma within Exhibitions about Children and War”

– Christa Jones’s “Sufi Mysticism and Dreams in Nabil Ayouch’s Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets“

– Teya Rosenberg’s “Cultural Preservation and Metropolitan Transformation: Folk-Tale Traditions and The Queen of Paradise’s Garden, a Newfoundland Jack Tale”

– Rachel Conrad’s “’We Are Masters at Childhood’: Time and Agency in Poetry by, for, and about Children”

Housed in the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) and produced under the sponsorship of the Vice-President (Research) and the Dean of Arts at the University of Winnipeg, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is an interdisciplinary, refereed academic journal whose mandate is to publish research on and to provide a forum for discussion about cultural productions for, by, and about young people.

More information on how to submit papers and how to subscribe can be found on our website:http://jeunessejournal.ca.

To recommend Jeunesse to your institution’s library, download our form.

We’re proud to announce the inaugural newsletter from the Institute for Child and Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge.  This will be second post for some, but the web link should allow for easier viewing.

The inaugural issue of the University of Lethbridge’s Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS) Newsletter is available here: http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/node/48333.

We’re also on Facebook; please take a look at our page and give us a like! https://www.facebook.com/ULethICYS

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Research is vital to understanding how we can improve children’s lives and create a better future for all. Methods of research involving children are expanding rapidly and changing the way we think about children and what they have to tell us about issues relevant to their lives. But how can we ensure these research approaches are ethically sound, children are respected and their views and perspectives gathered and reported with integrity? Faced with dilemmas and challenges, researchers often struggle to find adequate guidance and strategies.

While a range of guidance materials on research involving children is available, it was considered timely and important to bring together the best thinking internationally about key ethical issues and how these might be addressed in different research contexts. This extensive evidence is underpinned by an explicit emphasis on the important role of reflexivity, rights and relationships in progressing ethical research.

The Ethical Research Involving Children Project is intended to provide both guidance and a forum for discussion offering advice and possible solutions. A joint initiative by the UNICEF Office of Research, the Childwatch International Research Network, the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University and the Children’s Issues Centre at the University of Otago, the Ethical Research Involving Children Project avoids a prescribed approach and encourages greater consideration of ethical issues as part of a reflective process between researchers, children and other stakeholders.

Nearly 400 members of the international research and NGO communities have contributed to this project that has developed a range of resources to provide clear guidance on ethical issues and concerns that can be applied in multiple research contexts. The resources include:

• An International Charter for Ethical Research Involving Children;
• A Compendium on ethical issues and challenges, including a collection of over 20 case studies as well as structured questions to guide ethical research involving children (called ‘Getting Started’);
• A website www.childethics.com specifically designed to provide a rich repository of evidence-based information, resources and links to journal articles to guide and improve research involving children and to provide a platform for further critical reflection and dialogue.

We hope that these resources will support you and your organisation to further develop, enrich and sustain high quality, ethical research that will contribute to improving the lives of children. Please join us in this effort and share your ideas and experience on www.childethics.com.