CFP: Changing Families in a Changing World

CRFR 3rd International Conference
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
16th-18th June 2010
We live in times of enormous change on personal and global levels. Families are more diverse and more likely to change, with divorce, separation, stepfamilies, international adoption, increased life expectancy in some parts of the world and decreased in others, and a growing divide between rich and poor at local and global levels all becoming more prevalent. What happens to families in this changing word? How do they deal with the way in which global changes impact upon their lives? What do we know about these changes and how they play out in and across different parts of the globe?
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Call for reviews: CHILDHOOD

Childhood: A journal of global child research is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed journal that publishes empirical and theoretical articles on children in a variety of geographic, social and cultural contexts.  We are currently seeking book reviewers for forthcoming issues.  Please find, attached, a list of titles currently available for review; if you would like to request a copy to review, please contact the review editior: 
Tom O’Neill  [e-mail: toneill@brocku.ca]
Department of Child and Youth Studies
Brock University 
St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1

See list of titles currently available for review here

EASA 2010 - CFP: Lifeworlds of children and youth in times of crisis

Workshop W093: Lifeworlds of Children and Youth in Times of Crisis
Convenors: Anna Streissler (University of Vienna) & Elise Guillermet (Lyon II)
Short Abstract: This workshop focuses on the impacts of "crises" on the lifeworlds of children and youth and how they perceive and actively cope with them. Young people's perceptions of "crisis", their agency and place-making in crisis and adults' reactions towards the young in "crises" are addressed.
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CFP: World Summit on Media for Children and Youth

Karlstad, Sweeden
June 14-18, 2010
World Summit on Media for Children and Youth Karlstad Sweden 2010 will be a summit for 2000 delegates from 100 countries preparing with children and youth for a new media world in the 21st century. It will offer you great opportunities to network, to be part of debates, to be interactive and to be part of workshops to share your perspective, experience and expertise. Ler mais...

CFP: Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines

University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand
17 - 19 November 2010
Deadline for Abstract Submission 16 April 2010
This quadrennial ethnography conference and hui welcomes all forms of engagement in ethnographic disciplinary practice, and aims to stimulate rich intellectual discourse. Researchers and practitioners from across the disciplines of law, anthropology, education, health, management, business, psychology, sociology, cultural, and gender studies - and any other discipline where ethnography advances our understanding of the way groups and individuals interact and live their lives into being - are invited to submit papers. Contributors will be invited to experiment with traditional ethnography, as well as new methodologies and with new presentational formats such as drama, performance, poetry, autoethnography, and fiction. Presenters’ papers will be considered for a peer-reviewed compilation of four to five presentations per thread.
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Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives

Chamada para Artigos
This anthology will explore the topic and experiences of mothering from a cross-cultural perspective. Although the collection will primarily focus on cultural anthropological work, we welcome submissions from all four fields in anthropology (linguistic, physical/biological, archeology, and cultural). We encourage writings of recent fieldwork, welcoming the representations of local and global perspectives, and writings that represent all points of the insider-outsider spectrum, including auto-ethnography. Writing styles may vary from field notes to ethnographic fiction to traditional academic writing to poetry to photographic representations. While ethnographic (research-based) submissions will make up the majority of the volume, theoretical submissions are also welcome. Ler mais...

CFP: Infância, Juventude e Relações de Gênero na História da Educação

VIII Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de História da Educação
São Luis – Maranhão, Brasil
22-25 de Agosto 2010

A produção histórica no campo da educação tem apresentado um descompasso entre objetos, notadamente, os que contemplam a infância, a juventude e as relações de gênero. Recuperar e reescrever os silêncios dos sujeitos dessas questões, com a partilha dos múltiplos olhares luso-brasileiros constitui avanço nos temas históricos, além do acolhimento dos sem-voz e dos sem-vez de uma escola, que precisa ser investigada, a partir de outras oposições, dicotomias e argumentos.
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CFP: Education et Homophobie: une discrimination dans le système educatif

Alors que la lutte contre l’homophobie et toutes les formes de discrimination fait l’actualité nationale et internationale, le colloque « Education et homophobie » propose d’établir un état des lieux de la situation française contemporaine, à la lumière des initiatives d’ici et d’ailleurs. Deux objectifs réunissent les acteurs politiques, associatifs et scientifiques autour de cette question : fédérer les initiatives déjà menées et aboutir à l’élaboration de nouveaux outils pédagogiques d’éducation à l’acceptation. Ensemble, nous pouvons bâtir une société encore plus juste, bienveillante et équitable pour tous.  Ler mais...

Colóquio “O Conflito Familiar: Pais e Adolescentes”

Forum Européen en Mediation Familiale, Recherche et Formation
22 de Janeiro de 2010
Auditório do Gabinete para a Resolução Alternativa de Litígios Ministério da Justiça
Av. Duque de Loulé, 72 - 1050-091 Lisboa
http://www.mediarcom.com/

CFP: European Conference on Educational Research

ECER 2010, “Education and Cultural Change”
Helsinki, Finland, 23 - 27 August 2010
EERA, European Educational Research Association and the University of Helsinki invite Educational Researchers to participate in and to submit proposals for the European Conference on Educational Research 2010, in Helsinki, Finland.
The conference theme “Education and Cultural Change” brings to the forefront the view that educational institutions need to take cultural contexts into consideration in their policies and activities. It emphasizes how cultural changes impact the way children, adolescents and adults are educated in both formal and informal education.
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CFP: Cooperação no âmbito da Educação entre Portugal e os PALOP

O Centro de Estudos Africanos do ISCTE-IUL, na continuação do 1º colóquio NRedes e em colaboração com a ESECS de Leira está a organizar um Congresso Científico sobre Cooperação no âmbito da Educação entre Portugal e os PALOP que se realizará nos dias 29 e 30 de Março de 2010. Este Congresso reunirá, responsáveis políticos, promotores e agentes de acções de cooperação, professores e investigadores que se debruçam sobre as temáticas subjacentes a este tema. Constituirá por isso, um momento privilegiado para o aprofundamento do debate científico, sistematização de informações, de conhecimentos e de reflexões sobre as diferentes políticas, assim como para a avaliação das diversas acções até hoje realizadas no âmbito da cooperação entre Portugal e os PALOP no âmbito da Educação.

Convidamos todos os interessados a enviar propostas de comunicação até ao dia 30 de Janeiro de 2010. Para informações mais detalhadas sobre o programa, calendário de apresentação de propostas, regras para submissão dos resumos e inscrições por favor consultar o site www.coopedu.cea.iscte.pt.

Perspectivas de Investigação em Estudos da Criança

No âmbito do Ciclo de Conferências Doutorais, organizado pelo IEC/Instituto de Estudos da Criança, realiza-se no dia 22 de Janeiro de 2010, às 17 horas, a conferência intitulada Perspectivas de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, com a Professora Teresa Anguera da Universidade de Barcelona, Espanha. A entrada é livre.
Audiório do Centro Multimédia - Edifício da Educação
Universidade do Minho

Opening for a research associate in children's policy

This position is affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the University of Memphis and housed at The Urban Child Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. The institute is a privately funded nonprofit organization committed to improving the well-being of young children in Memphis by promoting optimal early brain development. The department is especially interested in candidates who are familiar with research literature on early childhood development; risk and protective factors influencing long-term developmental outcomes; familiarity with large data-base applications; statistical application packages; desk-top publishing; new/social media applications strongly desired.

The listing can be found here
Please contact:  Doug Imig
(901) 678-1360; 678-3369
http://www.theurbanchildinstitute.org/cucp

CFP: Children & Knowledge Production

Children & Knowledge Production
International Conference in Childhood Studies &
The 3rd Finnish Childhood Studies Conference
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
9-12 June 2010
The deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to January 31, 2010.
Present societal changes are inviting fresh views on how to promote children’s participation in knowledge production whether the interest is in planning new social practices or research. This conference will focus on how these developments are supported in the multidisciplinary field of child/childhood studies and what the consequences are both for research settings, methods, analysis and interpretation, and for the dissemination of knowledge. Read more...

Comparative Educational Pathways

INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL COMPARATIVE EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS
11 - 16 April 2010, York, UK

The Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice (CRESJ), University of York and the Educ8 Group are pleased to announce an international spring school for early career researchers to be held at the University of York, UK in April 2010. The theme for the spring school is comparative educational pathways, with a focus on youth transitions.
Complete info and CFP

Seminar: Opportunities of child-oriented research methods

15 January 2010, 13.30-15.50hrs
Venue: VU University (Amsterdam), Metropolitan Building, Room Z-113

Conducting research with children requires a reconsideration of common, adult-centred means of data collection. Margaret Mead, already in the 1920s, gathered 32.000 'spontaneous drawings' of Manus children. Drawing has subsequently evolved into a prime methodological instrument aimed at elucidating children's perspectives. The process of drawing is believed to underline children's agency and to stimulate their ownership of the research process. However, it is still undefined how data from drawings ought to be processed, how elicitation based on drawings could best be designed and how they actually contribute to theoretical knowledge on children's lives. The current seminar seeks to address these quandaries. During the discussion we will confront challenges and explore opportunities of child-oriented research methods, in order to set out an agenda for further development in this field.
Please register for this seminar by sending an e-mail to childrenseminar@hotmail.com.
For more information, contact Mienke van der Brug (m.van.der.brug@fsw.vu.nl) or Erik van Ommering (e.van.ommering@fsw.vu.nl)

read more: www.anthropologyofchildren.net

CFP: Childhood and the Production of National Ideals

Hi all,

I am working to put together a panel proposal for next year's American
Studies Association conference, which will take place in San Antonio
Texas in November 2010. Please see the CFP below for information. And
please forward as appropriate.

Thanks,
Cynthia

Childhood and the Production of National Ideals

This panel seeks papers that examine the ways in which children are
positioned during national moments of crisis. Building upon recent
scholarship that interrogates the placement of the child at the center
of political debates in the U.S., we aim to understand how childhood
functions as a key site in the production of national ideals. How do
children - both in their conceptualization and their actualization -
provide the chain that binds the family and the nation? Which children
are thought to embody the future and thus must be saved for the sake
of the nation, and which children are imagined to pose a perverse and
degenerative threat to familial and national futurity? In what ways
are some children seen as working to preserve the nation either
through participating in activist campaigns with their parents or
through learning the qualities of “good citizens” from their teachers?
How does the management of children’s agency - by simultaneously
celebrating their creativity and exploiting their malleability -
secure the role of the child in relation to the national body? When
might the child’s playful engagement with citizenship open space for a
critique of the nation-state? We encourage papers that investigate
questions of children and childhood in relation to the intersections
of gender and sexual identities, structures of class, racial
formations, and hierarchies of dis/ability.

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words, a CV, and any
questions to lizmontegary@ucdavis.edu.

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2010.

JOYCE M. MORRIS ARTICLE AWARD

HISTORY OF READING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
JOYCE M. MORRIS ARTICLE AWARD

GUIDELINES FOR 2010 AWARD YEAR

The History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association sponsors a triennial award for an outstanding article on the history of literacy. A prize of $100 (US) will be awarded to the single or coauthored article that represents the best scholarship on the history of literacy, broadly defined to include the history of authorship, books, instruction, audiences, publishing, spelling, libraries, reading, and writing.

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