CFP – Journal of Playwark Practice

Journal of Playwork Practice aims to advance playwork research and practice by providing the first ever interdisciplinary platform for the publication and dissemination of scholarship relevant to the practice of playwork. We therefore encourage the submissions of papers for peer-review from the broad range of disciplines from which the playwork field draws its theoretical foundations.

For more information about the range of topics JPP publishes on, please see our most recent call for papers here or email the Editors for further information jpp@commonthreads.org.uk .

Child and Family Graduate Programs at Syracuse University

The CFS department at Syracuse University is seeking motivated graduate students for our M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. programs. Please see the attached flier (PDF) for more information and/or contact Deborah Golia, our Recruitment Specialist at 315.443.5555.

You can read more about our exciting programs and faculty research on our department website: http://falk.syr.edu/ChildFamilyStudies/

International conference – Media Cultures of Early Childhood

The “Youth and Media Studies Center” (Centre détudes sur les Jeunes et les Médias)

in partnership with EXPERICE (Paris 13 University) and GREMS (Université Catholique de Louvain)

are organizing the international conference: “Media cultures of early childhood”

on April 7-8th, 2016

Place: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) Nord, Paris-La Plaine Saint-Denis

– Call for Participation –

How can we understand children’s media culture, especially among the 0-7 year-olds? Based on what uses and practices, and in what contexts? What media constructions and media strategies (pertaining to formats, contents or audiences) nourish children’s media culture(s)? What (formal or informal) teaching and learning processes do these media practices imply?

Research direction #1: Media uses and practices during childhood

Research Direction #2: An Exploration of Children Media Contents

Research direction #3 : Formal and informal learning with media

Calendar :

Deadline for submissions: December 28, 2015

Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2016

Conference: April 7 and 8, 2016

For publication:

Sending texts for evaluation: June 1, 2016

Notification of Assessment: September 30, 2016

Submission of final texts: November 10, 2016

Expected Publication: Spring 2017

Scientific committee:

Ana Nunes de Almeida (University of Lisbon, Social Sciences Institute)
Benoit Berthou (Université Paris 13, Labsic)
Aurélie Brouwers (Université Catholique de Louvain, GReMS)
Stephane Chaudron (European Commission, Joint Research Centre)
Ana Dias Chiaruttini (Université Lille 3, CIREL)
Thierry De Smedt (Université Catholique de Louvain, GReMS)
Pierre Fastrez (Université Catholique de Louvain, GReMS)
Matthieu Letourneux (Université Paris Ouest, CSLF)
Eerik Mantere (University of Tampere)
Jackie Marsh (University of Sheffield)
Nicola Pelissier (Université de Nice, I3M)
Nathalie Roucous (Université Paris 13, Experice)
Régine Sirota (Université Paris 5, CERLIS)
Serge Tisseron (Université Paris 7, CRPMS)

Organization committee:

Isabelle Feroc Dumez (Université de Poitiers, ESPE, Laboratoire TECHNE)
Sébastien François (Labex ICCA, Universités Paris 13 & Paris Descartes)
Marlène Loicq (Présidente du Centre détudes sur les jeunes et les médias)
Isabelle Rigoni (INS HEA, Grhapes / Centre Émile Durkheim / MICA)
Aude Seurrat (Université Paris 13, Labsic)

Contact:

Marlène Loicq, marleneloicq@gmail.com

Infos on the “Youth and Media Studies Center” website www.jeunesetmedias.fr

CFP – Ethnographic Encounters with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in Educational Contexts

IV INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Ethnographic Encounters with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in Educational Contexts
&
I INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
of Qualitative Research with the Participation of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

UNIOESTE – Campus de Foz do Iguaçu
Brazil
April 28 and 29, 2016

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

Regina Coeli Machado e Silva – Brasil – UNIOESTE – Campus de Foz do Iguaçu

Ángeles Clemente – México – Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca

Maria Dantas-Whitney – USA – Western Oregon University

Alba-Lucy Guerrero – Colombia –  Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá

Diana Milstein – Argentina – FACE/Universidad Nacional del Comahue y CIS-COMICET/Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social

BACKGROUND

The IV International Symposium “Ethnographic Encounters with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in Educational Contexts” intends to strengthen the research threads developed in the three previous symposia about ethnography with children and youth that took place in November 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October 2011 in Bogotá, Colombia, and in November 2013 in Oaxaca, Mexico.

In Buenos Aires, the symposium opened a space for discussions on the role of children and adolescents in the production of social knowledge. In Bogotá, the event featured ethnographic investigations on how children, adolescents, and youth become involved in social, educational, political and cultural dynamics, and how these actors exercise their agency to propose alternative possibilities for the transformation of their identities and everyday lives. In Oaxaca, the presentations focused on the dynamic involvement, agency, and commitment of all participants in ethnographic research: investigators, children, adolescents, young adults, and other actors.

A selection of papers from the 2009 symposium was published in 2011 by Miño y Dávila; and a second selection of papers from the 2011 symposium is in the process of publication by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. A publication of selected papers from the third symposium is in its planning stages.

For this forth symposium, we have expanded the call for papers to include all forms of qualitative research. We hope to foster dialog among investigators employing different methods for advancing knowledge about educational processes with the participation of children, adolescents, and youth.

OBJECTIVES

  • To bring together results of ethnographic research studies (completed or in process of completion) which examine and problematize political and cultural processes in educational contexts.
  • To develop epistemological, theoretical and methodological discussions about the involvement of children, adolescents and youth as collaborators in social qualitative research in general, and in ethnographic research in particular.

THEMATIC THREADS AND OPEN QUESTIONS

We invite papers that explore and problematize issues related to educational processes in diverse sociocultural and geographic contexts through collaborative research with children, adolescents, and youth. Relevant topics include:

  • Spaces, times, and everyday life
  • Bodies and ways of knowing
  • Cultural construction of identities/subjectivities
  • Political praxis and citizen formation in educational contexts
  • Language and cultural processes
  • Mediated and virtual contexts of socialization
  • Educational experiences in rural and urban contexts
  • Ethnographic praxis
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Social class, nationality and religion
  • Age and generation
  • Violence, resistance, and peaceful resolution

We hope to engage in discussions centered on the following questions:

  • How do we understand intercultural interaction in schools and in other spaces of socialization?
  • How can or do children, adolescents, and youth participate in the process of social research?
  • How are ethnographic/qualitative reflexive processes integrated with the children’s, adolescents’, and youth’s ideas, works, dreams and actions?
  • What is the benefit of ethnographic/qualitative research in the construction of subjectivity among children, adolescents, and youth?
  • What are possibilities of adult research with children, adolescents, and youth for transforming educational and cultural processes?

FORMAT OF THE SYMPOSIUM

Papers may be summited in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. The complete papers will be available in advance for all symposium participants. In that way, sessions can be devoted entirely to discussions on issues, and approaches of the papers. The number of papers will be limited (40 papers maximum) in order to maintain a high level of interaction during the two days of the symposium. It is important that abstracts provide clear evidence of their theoretical and methodological contributions to the themes of the symposium. Members of the Academic Committee will work during 2017 on the compilation of a book containing selected studies from the symposium.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 2, 2016

Deadline for notification of acceptance of abstracts: February 12, 2016

Deadline for submission of full papers: April 10, 2016

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

The abstract must be attached as a Word file not exceeding 500 words. It must state the title of the paper, authors’ names, and institution affiliation, as well as:

  • Topic and issues being addressed
  • Purpose of the investigation
  • Theoretical and methodological references, with particular mention of the collaborative aspects of the research
  • References to field work and preliminary analysis
  • Relevance of the study

Please send your abstract via email to encuentrosetnograficos@gmail.com. Only one proposal per each presenter will be accepted. Notification of accepted papers will be made on February 12, 2016 via email.

SUBMISSION OF COMPLETE PAPERS

If your abstract is accepted, please submit your complete paper as a pdf file on April 10, 2016 via email to encuentrosetnograficos@gmail.com. Complete papers should not exceed 8,000 words; and they should include an abstract, which can include minor changes from the original abstract previously submitted. For the complete paper, please include: (1) introduction, where objectives and theoretical framework are stated; (2) specific methodological aspects highlighting collaborative work with children, adolescents and/or youth; (3) description of field work, data, and analysis; (4) discussion and exploration of results and implications; (5) conclusions, which must be brief and clear; and (6) reference list, including only the cited documents within the paper.

LOGISTICS OF PRESENTATIONS

Presentations will be done in sessions lasting 30 minutes each. Only one paper will be presented and discussed in each session. The authors will have 10 minutes to present their paper orally; and the remaining 20 minutes will be used to ask questions and exchange ideas about the papers. Chairs for each presentation will be chosen among the symposium participants. The role of the chairs is to manage time and facilitate discussion.

PARTICIPANTS MUST READ THE PAPERS BEFORE THE PRESENTATIONS. Therefore, the papers will be made available as of April 15, 2016.

Workshop
Collaborative research with children, adolescences and youth: Possibilities and limitations

A workshop will be offered to all participants from both symposia to engage in discussions about ethnographic/qualitative research in collaboration with children, adolescents and youth.

ROUNDTABLES

Two roundtables will be conducted at the end of each working day. They will be open to the public. Topics and participants will be organized according to the accepted papers.

Journal of Playwark Practice – new issue just released

Second issue of 2015 now out

Journal of Playwork Practice (JPP), published in association with Common Threads, is the first academic journal in the playwork field and provides an international platform for the publication and dissemination of scholarship relevant to playwork practice.  The journal is available as a print journal with an online version.

You can follow the journal on Twitter at @jpp_journal.

Send this email onto your library and recommend that they subscribe. A 3 month online trial for libraries is available or to subscribe, contact Turpin Distribution email: custserv@turpin-distribution.com.

For information about submitting a paper to Journal of Playwork Practice, please email jpp@commonthreads.org.uk.

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IN THE CURRENT ISSUE: Volume 2 No 2

Editorial (free to read)
Shelly Newstead

Engaging children in activities beyond the classroom walls: a social–ecological exploration of Australian primary school children’s enjoyment of school play activities 
Brendon Hyndman, Barbara Chancellor

The Possible Futures for Playwork project: a thematic analysis 

Pete King

Preliminary development of a new method for exploring the acceptability of playwork interventions with children: the Day Reconstruction Method – Child version (DRM-C) 
Rebecca Jenkin, Ian Frampton, Mathew White, Sabine Pahl, Niky Dix

Practice: searching and re/searching 
Jennifer Cartmel

There’s no full stop after playwork: co-creating space on an adventure playground 
John Fitzpatrick, Bridget Handscomb

The efficiency of playwork as a universal service 
Ross Podyma

Assessing play sufficiency in Wrexham, Wales 
Mike Barclay, Ben Tawil

Early reflections from the Play Works project 
Tilean Clarke

Janet Dalglish, MBE (1919–2007) 
Ute Navidi

New play opportunities in a Papua New Guinean school 
Kym Simoncini, Victoria Carr Sue Elliott, Elisapesi Manson, Lalen Simeon; Joros Sawi

 Book Reviews

Latest issue – Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights

The Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights/Revue canadienne des droits des enfants has just published its latest issue at http://journals.carleton.ca/cjcr/index.php/cjcr. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to read articles and items of interest. It is also available from a link at: landonpearson.ca

Thanks for your continuing interest in the Journal.

Virginia Caputo, PhD 
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6
Phone (613) 520-2600 Ext.1342
virginia_caputo@carleton.ca

Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights/Revue canadienne des droits des
enfants
Vol 2, No 1 (2015): Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights/Revue canadienne des droits des enfants

Table of Contents
http://journals.carleton.ca/cjcr/index.php/cjcr/issue/view/5

Articles

From the Editor
Virginia Caputo
A Child Rights and Social Justice Framework for Analyzing Public Policy
Rita Nathawad,  David L Wood,   Jeffrey L Goldhagen
Approaches to promoting ideas about children’s rights and participation:
Can the education of undergraduate students contribute to raising the
visibility of the child in relation to child participation in Canada?
Sam Frankel,    Sally McNamee,  Alan Pomfret
Situating Children’s Rights in Cultural Perspectives on Childhood:
Intermedial Dialogue.
Sandra J.T.M. Evers,    Jennifer Vadeboncoeur,  Barbara Weber
Justiciability of Children’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in
Botswana
Emmanuel Kopang Botlhale

Moving Children’s Participation Forward Through Article 31 – the Right To Play
Emma Colucci,   Laura Wright
The Creation of a Book Award to Encourage Child Activism
J Cynthia McDermott
The “Voice”
Charles Nicholas Oberg

Youth Submissions

A Person is a Privilege
Clara Pottie
Seventeen
Willow Cioppa
I Will Dance
Emilly Renaud

Neos highlights—Teaching Race Awareness in Young Children

Are you feeling inspired by the AAA Meeting to bring new texts and tools into your classroom? As you plan next semester’s classes, consider Richard Zimmer’s argument to include one of the classics: Mary Ellen Goodman’s Race Awareness in Youth Children. Check out Zimmer’s tips on how to use this text to get your students thinking critically about their own racial biases in the October 2015 issue of Neos (pp. 11-12): http://acyig.americananthro.org/neos/current-issue/.

Interested in writing for the February 2016 issue of Neos? Email ACYIG.Editor@gmail.com this week with your submission (see http://acyig.americananthro.org/neos/neos-submission-guidelines/ for submission guidelines).

 The Children, Youth and Environments Journal  just published a special issue, “Child-Friendly Cities: Critical Perspectives” available on:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.25.issue-2

An overview article discusses recent developments and develops a typology of the roles of children and youth as users, consumers, entrepreneurs, and co-producers of cities in a globalizing world. Other articles cover accreditation of child-friendly cities, spatializing children’s rights, qualitative vs. quantitative standards for play space, appropriation of public spacesparticipatory planning with children, and connectedness to nature, among others.  The issue includes papers from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Sweden, India, Ireland, and New Zealand.  It also includes several excellent book reviews and thoughtful critique of Robert Putnam’s new book “Our Kids:  The American Dream in Crisis.”

Children, Youth and Environments  (CYE) accepts 25% of submissions for publication after a double-blind peer-review process. It has readers in over 150 countries who annually make more than 35,000 requests for full-text downloads.  Articles published in CYE from 2003 through the end of 2011 were cited on average 17.2 times.