The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden, New Jersey, USA is proudly sponsoring Society for the History of Children and Youth Ninth Biennial Conference on the theme Transition, Transaction, and Transgression, to be held June 21-23, 2017. Continue reading CFP: Transition, Transaction, & Transgression
New book: Children on the Move in Africa
Elodie Razy and Marie Rodet, eds.Table of Contents
Preface, by Benjamin N. Lawrance
Introduction – Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues and New Perspectives, by Marie Rodet and Elodie Razy
Post-docs and PhD studentship
Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings
Brunel University London is seeking to appoint two post-doctoral research fellows and a PhD student to work on the above project. (A further post-doctoral research fellowship will be advertised shortly at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.) The research, which is funded by the ESRC-DFID raising learning outcomes scheme and led by Dr Nicola Ansell (Brunel), Dr Peggy Froerer (Brunel), Dr Roy Huijsmans (ISS) and Prof Ian Rivers (Strathclyde), will examine the relationship between aspiration and schooling in remote rural areas of Lesotho, India and Laos. Continue reading Post-docs and PhD studentship
Registration now open: Horrible Histories? Children’s Lives in Historical Context
General registration is now open for the inaugural conference of the Children’s History Society. Hosted at King’s College London from 16-18 June inclusive, the theme is ‘Horrible Histories? Children’s Lives in Historical Contexts’.With keynotes from David Pomfret and the schoolchildren of Bethnal Green and Pimlico Academies, the conference features over 100 speakers from across the globe. Continue reading Registration now open: Horrible Histories? Children’s Lives in Historical Context
Time and bodies in grandparenthood
by Josien De Klerk Continue reading Time and bodies in grandparenthood
Neos highlights – Discovering the Kid Researcher
Have you considered how prior relationships with your research participants influence their experience in the research process? Or how friendships between participants influence the research process? See how researcher Cynthia Maurer dealt with these issues in “Discovering the Kid Researcher,” pp. 8-9 of the February 2016 issue of Neos (https://acyig.americananthro.org/neos/current-issue/).
Last Opportunity for ACYIG Invited Session
There is still room for an ACYIG invited session at the AAA annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN. This session will have “invited status” and increased promotion and exposure by ACYIG. Continue reading Last Opportunity for ACYIG Invited Session
Conference – Juvenile Justice in Europe: Past, Present and Future?
26-27 May 2016 – Liverpool, UK
The conference will be addressed by many of Europe’s leading juvenile justice researchers. Continue reading Conference – Juvenile Justice in Europe: Past, Present and Future?