CPF Global Studies of Childhood

CFP - special issue: Actualization of Children’s Participation Rights (PDF)

Global Studies of Childhood (GSC) is a peer-reviewed, internationally focused, online research journal. The journal provides an opportunity for researchers, university and college students and professionals who are interested in issues associated with childhood in education, family, and community contexts from a global perspective to present, share and discuss their work. GSC aims to present opportunities for scholars and emerging researchers to interrogate the ways in which globalization and new global perspectives impact on children’s life experiences.

Projecto Olhares em Foco

Adolescent Ambassadors

March 23 - 24, 2012
Workshop at the GHI

German Historical Institute

Washington DC

Adolescent Ambassadors 
20th Century Youth Organizations and International Relations

This workshop seeks to add to the burgeoning historiography on non-state actors in international relations by focusing on youth and youth organizations. Parallel to the proliferation of inter- and transnational organizations around the turn of the century, Western scientists invented the concept of adolescence to demarcate an intermediate period between childhood and adulthood. The contention that adolescence was an unstable life phase, a developmental stage marked by extreme vitality and insecurity, persuaded policymakers across borders to establish domestic institutions designed to shape, educate, and improve an allegedly erratic youth. But...

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Colóquio - Investigação Participativa com Crianças

Instituto de Educação - Univ. do Minho,  
Sala 0020 - Entrada livre
Sábado, 02-07-2011


Contacto: Doutora Natália Fernandes
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Este colóquio destina-se, preferencialmente, a alunos de mestrado que estejam na fase de elaboração dos seus projectos de investigação, sendo no entanto, aberto ao público em geral, e tem como objectivo a promoção de uma troca de saberes com base em trabalhos de investigação já desenvolvidos a partir desta abordagem metodológica.

Children and Young People's Participation in Planning and Regeneration

Day, L., Sutton, L. and Jenkins, S. (2011) Children and Young People's Participation in Planning and Regeneration: A final report to the Ecorys Research Programme 2010-11. UK: Ecorys.

This report presents the findings from a research study carried out by Ecorys in partnership with Loughborough University, to examine the evidence for children and young people’s participation in planning and regeneration.

The main purpose of this report is to present the detailed findings from the research study. Our intention was to draw together into one place the very diverse range of academic and non-academic studies that have been undertaken in this field, and to reflect upon the lessons for policy and practice at the current point in time; when children and young people's participation is framed by challenging economic circumstances in the UK and internationally. Whilst the report has a particular focus on the UK situation, it also draws upon research literature and practice examples from Europe, South America, North America and Australasia to provide a comparison. The findings are set within the over-arching context of the 1989 UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). 

Children’s Participation in French Child Protection

Anthropology of Children Seminar
Friday 20 May 2011, 13.30 – 15.00

Children’s Participation in French Child Protection:
A Journey from Restricted to Full Citizenship

By Pierrine Robin

VU University is located at a 10-minutes’ walk from Amsterdam Zuid railway station. The
Metropolitan Building is located opposite the University’s main building, across the tramway. Tram stop ‘De Boelelaan / VU’ is served by tram lines 5 and 51.

More info at www.anthopologyofchildren.net

Confirm your participation at childrenseminar@hotmail.com

Participação das crianças na vida em sociedade (entrevista com o Professor Manuel Sarmento)

As experiências que promovem a participação de crianças nas decisões políticas em diferentes espaços de suas vidas – cidades, escola, movimentos sociais – são cada vez frequentes. No entanto, embora o tema tenha ganhado importância nos últimos anos, o direito à participação de crianças em processos de elaboração de políticas públicas está longe de ser garantido.
Manuel Sarmento é diretor do Centro de Educação da Universidade do Minho, em Portugal.
Leia a entrevista na íntegra em: De Olho no Plano
Assista à entrevista no canal do YouTube
AGRADECEMOS aos colegas que conduziram e disponibilizaram a entrevista!

The Right Stuff

The Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) has launched a taster issue of "The Right Stuff" – the human rights magazine by and for children and young people.

You can read the magazine here: http://issuu.com/krishnacrae/docs/the_right_stuff_magazine

Funded by Mediabox, the magazine features stories of children who have suffered rights violations, as well as inspirational accounts of children taking action, interviews with human rights activists and a dedicated under 10s section. The Right Stuff magazine was designed and written by more than 30 under 18 year-olds from across England, with the aim of promoting young people’s interest in children’s human rights and encouraging them to take action to achieve change for children.

The magazine is available to download at www.crae.org.uk. Enquiries concerning the Right Stuff can be sent to Krishna Maroo at kmaroo@crae.org.uk

Participatory Ontologies and Youth Cultures

The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that the 2010 Winter Issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is now available! Issue 2.2 features the forum entitled "Participatory Ontologies and Youth Cultures." This forum contains pieces from Stuart Poyntz, Zoë Druick, Clare Bradford, and Darin Barney, and it is open access at http://jeunessejournal.ca <http://jeunessejournal.ca/> .

The editorial by Mavis Reimer and review essays are also open access.