OpenEYE Campaign-new website- Save Childhood.net.

A new website www.savechildhood.net has been developed by the OpenEYE Campaign – the multi-disciplinary action group. Two weeks ago the OpenEYE Campaign had a letter published in the national press that was signed by more than 200 concerned experts calling […]

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OpenEye October 2011

Time to arrest the Erosion of Childhood
Letter page and lead headline in the Daily Telegraph, Saturday 24th Sept, 2011
Dear Letters Editor,  SIR -

Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University,

 1st Call for papers

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 CELEBRATING CHILDHOOD DIVERSITY

9-11 JULY 2012.

 To celebrate the 10th year of the establishment of the Centre for the

MA Child Studies King’s College London

MA Child Studies King’s College London  Background to the programme Established in 1997, the Child Studies MA programme was in part a response to calls for greater interdisciplinary training for

Children and the Market: implications for children’s rights

International Day Conference Children and the Market: implications for children’s rights  13th April 2011 Institute of Education, Clarke Hall   10am – 5pm The term ‘the commercialisation of childhood’ makes headlines and stirs

Childhoods Today latest issue out now

Dear all, We are delighted to inform you that the latest issue of Childhoods Today has just been published. Please do find five minutes to have a look at

Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden – New Listeserve

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden are excited to announce a new listserve catering to the multi-disciplinary field of Childhood Studies. Those of us who study

Book launch: Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos

We're delighted to support and publicise a new book edited by our friend Dr Richard House and his colleague Prof Del Loewenthal. A new book calls for a greater

Rethinking Children/Childhood in the 21st Century

Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Rethinking Children/Childhood in the 21st Century - 2 day conference - 4th & 5th February 2010  This conference will bring together a wide range of

Recapturing Childhood. Positive Parenting in the Modern World

Recapturing Childhood. Positive Parenting in the Modern World In her new book Mildred Masheder provides wise advice on every aspect of childhood.With many inspiring contributions from parents, who have written

Lib Ed bulletin: New articles for September 2008

The Baumgarten children's home. Siegfried Bernfeld The Kinderheim Baumgarten was a jewish children's home set up in Vienna after the first world war. Bernfeld's  methods would still seem innovative

Representing Childhood Conference 8-10 July, Sheffield, UK

This conference will explore the ways in which childhood and youth are represented as life course categories and how in changing cultural and historical contexts these categories are

Lib Ed – New Articles

LibEd Bulletin http://www.libed.org.uk NEW ARTICLES POSTED, MAY, 2008 EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDHOOD Robin Alexander¹s keynote lecture at the conference on Childhood, Wellbeing and Primary Education organised by the General Teaching

Swedish Good Sense?

Edutopia's news for 23rd April included a couple of interesting stories (1) Childhood's End: Growing Up too Fast -  a touching elaboration of how our uniform schooling cruelly

‘Early Childhood Policies in Countries of the South – Open Lecture

Professor Helen Penn University of East London Wednesday 9 April 2008 6 – 8 pm Stratford Campus Room: RB1.16 Education Building ALL WELCOME

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