Training/Education

Master of Childhood and Youth Studies, SCU Australia

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Master of Childhood and Youth Studies

Southern Cross University, Australia

Accepting applications now

The Graduate Certificate and Masters of Childhood and Youth Studies are designed to meet the needs of people working, or intending to work, with children, young people and their families. These courses are targeted toward professionals from fields as diverse as social work, welfare, family services, health, education, family

dispute resolution, sport and recreation, law, juvenile justice, international community development, research and policy development. The Masters course includes studies in:

  • Child protection and participation
  • Young people’s social and emotional wellbeing
  • Children’s rights
  • Young people and the law
  • Supporting children through difficult times
  • Drugs, alcohol and sexual health
  • Embracing diversity
  • Program evaluation
  • Research with and for children
  • Workplace leadership
  • Professional portfolio development.

The courses are offered externally/online allowing you to apply your learning immediately in your workplace. There is a strong focus on authentic and professionally-relevant assessment – no written examinations. You can enrol in a full award, or undertake single units as accredited professional development and continue on to the awards at a later date. Students who have completed a Bachelor degree in a similar discipline may receive advanced standing towards the Masters award.

We are always very happy to talk to you about the course and whether it would meet your professional needs, or those of others in your organisation. Contact us directly on edpostgrad@scu.edu.au and we will forward you a more detailed Prospective Student Guide.


Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: AAA Panel on Displaced Childhood

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Dear all,

I am thinking of organising a panel for the AAA [AAA is the American anthropological association and is being held this year in Washington DC from 3rd to 7th December] on the theme of displaced childhoods – children who were displaced from their birth families due to wars, social engineering practices and state led racial policies and international adoption is a central process that we seek to look at in this panel. I am writing to explore if any of the members of this listserve might be willing to present their research as part of this panel.

I am starting a bit late on this – so apologies for that. But I would really appreciate hearing back from you as soon as possible/latest by 11th April this Friday as that would be very helpful for me to decide about the panel. We all have to pay and register for the AAA by 15th April [next Tuesday] so I need to know soon about your intention to participate.

Look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Best wishes, Nayanika

Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee | Associate Professor/Reader in Socio-Cultural Anthropology |
Department of Anthropology | Durham University | Durham DH13LE | UK
email: nayanika.mookherjee@durham.ac.uk
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/academic/?id=9355

 

Events, Resources

Atelier Epistemology of the sciences of childhood, 07/04 (Kinship and Parenthood) et 5/5 (Politics)‏ + website

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We are glad to inform you that our group « Sciences de l’enfance, enfants des sciences » (SEES) is now officially on the net.

Our website, http://sciences-enfances.org/ is now open! Please feel free to have a look at it and don’t hesitate to send us informations for the blog!

 

Meanwhile, SEES is pleased to invite you to the 2nd and 3rd workshops of the Ateliers Campus Condorcet, a cycle of seminars on “Epistemology, methods, and history of the sciences of childhood.”

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

Registration is required (sciencenfance@gmail.com)

 7 April 2014, 14h – 17h

« Kinship and Parenthood »

Aurélie Fillod-Chabaud (Institut Universitaire Européen)  

« Enfance et séparation conjugales. La question des parents non gardiens et de leurs enfants »

Yann Favier (Université Rennes 2)

« Réflexions sur le dualisme parenté/parentalité et sa traduction juridique »

Francesca Nicola (Università di Milano Bicocca)

« Politics of parenting in a post-welfare era. The case of parents of kids with ADHD in the USA »

Discutantes : Natacha Collomb et Gladys Chicharro

 5 May 2014, 14h – 17h

« Politics »

Isabelle Konuma (Centre d’Etudes Japonaises)

« Comment définir l’ “intérêt de l’enfant” en droit japonais ? Les acteurs dans l’énoncé du bien-être de l’enfant. »

David Lancy (Utah State University)  

« Children as a Reserve Labor Force »

Damien Boone (Ceraps), « La politique racontée aux enfants : des apprentissages pris dans des dispositifs entre consensus et conflit. Une étude des sentiers de la (dé)politisation des enfants »

Discutante : Alice Sophie Sarcinelli (EHESS/Iris)

 

 

 

 

Calls for Papers: Conferences

Final Reminder – AAA Panel Proposals seeking ACYIG sponsorship – April 1 deadline

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If you are organizing an AAA session and would like ACYIG sponsorship for your session, please alert ACYIG by midnight on Tuesday April 1. Please email, as one document or pdf file, the following (send it toesobo@mail.sdsu.edu):

a.       Session organizer names, affiliations, and contact information

b.      Session title

c.       Session abstract (250 words or less)

d.      Names/affiliations of confirmed participants & their paper titles

The organizers of selected sessions will be notified regarding the status of their submission within a week.

Regards,

ACYIG