The Reading Agency Lecture 2015: Russell Brand

Russell Brand

THE READING AGENCY LECTURE 2014: RUSSELL BRAND

Russell Brand to give The Reading Agency Lecture

Russell Brand will deliver The Reading Agency Lecture on 25 November 2014, 7.00-8.00pm.

See: http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/russell-brand-to-give-the-reading-agency-lecture.html

The Reading Agency Lecture will take place in The Logan Hall at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

You can buy tickets for the lecture from Eventbrite.

Tickets are priced at £20 and £10 for concessions (under 24s).

The lecture was initiated by The Reading Agency in 2012. It aims to provide a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about the future of reading in the UK.

Russell Brand will deliver ‘a manifesto on reading’ which will be in part personal, sharing his own experience of books and reading while growing up in the UK; and it will be in part as a public figure, sharing his views on the status of reading and storytelling in our national culture and why reading is important for young people – especially boys – in the UK today.

Russell Brand says:

“Writing is the most intimate medium. Right there in the brain, in the swamp of fear and desire. I like splashing about in there, stirring up sediment, doing the breaststroke. In this lecture I will try and drag this metaphor out for an hour.”

Further information: http://readingagency.org.uk/adults/get-involved/002-events/russell-brand-a-manifesto-on-reading.html

‘The Bookseller’: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/russell-brand-give-reading-agency-lecture

 

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Free Minds, Free People

Childhood

FREE MINDS, FREE PEOPLE

National Conference

Oakland, CA, USA

July 9 – 12, 2015

Free Minds, Free People is a national conference convened by the Education for Liberation Network that brings together teachers, high school and college students, researchers, parents and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation.

Read more about our mission and goals.

We are extremely excited to announce that the next Free Minds, Free People will take place in Oakland, CA, July 9 – 12, 2015!

Our last conference in Chicago was a huge success! About 1,000 people from across the country came together and enjoyed nearly 100 workshops, panels and assemblies.  For those who were at the Chicago conference last year, you may remember the awesome turnout of folks from California and the Bay Area who presented and participated in that conference. They are taking that energy and commitment to FMFP and putting it on full blast to host our next conference.

We’ll plan to see you July 9 – 12, 2015 in Oakland, CA – mark your calendar, start organizing to participate, and spread the word!

FMFP: http://www.fmfp.org/

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London Radical Bookfair & Alternative Press Takeover

LONDON RADICAL BOOKFAIR & ALTERNATIVE PRESS TAKEOVER

Presented by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers

Saturday 10^th May, 10.00-5.00pm

Bishopsgate Institute

230 Bishopsgate

London EC2M 4QH

Free entry to fair and talks: no advance booking required

See: http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/event/456/Troublemakers?—London-Radical-Bookfair–Alternative-Press-Takeover?&Keyword=troublemakers&TypeID=

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers invites you to the London Radical Bookfair & Alternative Press Takeover, showcasing the depth and breadth of radical publishing and bookselling in the UK.

Spread across the three floors of Bishopsgate Institute you will find an array of stalls from radical booksellers, publishers, zine makers, artists and activists.

Guest authors shortlisted for two book prizes, the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing, and the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award, will also present talks throughout the day. The bookfair will culminate in an awards ceremony for the two prizes, to be awarded by guest judges Jess McCabe, Seumas Milne and Nina Power.

For further information on stall holders, speakers and guest judges please visit the London Radical Bookfair and Alternative Press websites.

Alliance of Radical Booksellers: http://www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk/

 

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Conference on the Nature and Value of Childhood

Childhood

CONFERENCE ON THE NATURE AND VALUE OF CHILDHOOD

16-17 May 2014

University of Sheffield, UK

Currently there is widespread philosophical interest in children’s rights, parental rights and duties, and wider issues concerning good parenting and the social organisation of childrearing. Yet, to fully address these topics one needs to assume an answer to the question of ’What is a child?’ To know who owes what to children in any detail, we need to know what distinguishes childhood from adulthood, and to answer questions about the relative value of childhood and adulthood in the overall life of a human being.

This conference brings together philosophers interested in a cluster of questions that have not been sufficiently discussed so far, but which are starting to draw philosophical attention: What is childhood? Is childhood good intrinsically, or only as preparation for adulthood? If it is intrinsically good, does it have special value – would it be a loss, from the perspective of an entire human life, if one missed out on childhood? Are there any ‘intrinsic goods of childhood’, and what are they? Do we owe children things that are different in nature from the things owed to adults?

 

PAPERS:

Monika Betzler (Berne) ‘Good childhood and the good life’

Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet): ‘The Nature and Value of a Deaf Childhood’

Samantha Brennan (Western Ontario) ‘Trust, time, and play: Three intrinsic goods of childhood’

Matthew Clayton (Warwick) ‘Dignity as an ideal for children’

Jurgen De Wispelaere (McGill) ‘Political rights for Rugrats: Children in the democratic state’

Timothy Fowler (Bristol) ‘Variety is the spice of life?: On the possible significance of their being intrinsic goods of childhood’

Colin Macleod (Victoria) ‘Just schools and good fun: Non-preparatory dimensions of educational justice’

Serena Olsaretti (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University) ‘Egoism, altruism and the special duties of parents’

Norvin Richards (Alabama) ‘The intrinsic goods of childhood’

Judith Suissa (London) ‘Narrativity, childhood and parenting’

Patrick Tomlin (Reading) ‘Saplings or caterpillars?: Trying to understand children”

Daniel Weinstock (McGill) ‘On the complementarity of the ages of life: Why we wouldn’t want adulthood without childhood, or childhood without
adulthood’

 

The conference will take place on the 16th and 17th of May 2014 at the University of Sheffield, Jessops West Exhibition Space.

Registration: http://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=8&prodid=259

For more details get in touch with the organisers: Anca Gheaus (a.gheaus@sheffield.ac.uk) or Lindsey Porter (l.porter@lancaster.ac.uk)

The conference is sponsored by the Society for Applied Philosophy, The Mind Association and The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

Thanks to Pedagogy & the Inhumanities for alerting me to this interesting and important conference: http://benjaminpedagogy.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/conference-the-nature-and-value-of-childhood/Glenn Rikowski

 

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A Child’s World – The Next Steps

Education

A CHILD’S WORLD – THE NEXT STEPS

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Dear Colleague

On behalf of the conference organisers and speakers, we would like to invite you to participate in the following international conference

A Child’s World – Next Steps

International Conference: 25-27th June, 2014

Venue: Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

Organised and hosted by the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Aberystwyth University www.aber.ac.uk/sell

For further enquiries, please do not hesitate to reply to this e-mail address:-  achildsworldconference@aber.ac.uk

Key Speakers include:

Huw Lewis AM, Minister for Education & Skills, Welsh Government (Invited & TBC)

Professor David Reynolds, Southampton Education School, Southampton University. He is currently Senior Policy Advisor to the Welsh Assembly Government.

Professor Rebecca Wallace, Judge of the First tier Tribunal, Research Professor of International Human Rights and Justice, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Professor David Wray, Professor of Literacy Education, University of Warwick, Coventry

Other speakers to follow

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The School of Education and Lifelong Learning kindly invites you to participate in the International Conference: A Child’s World – Next Steps, taking place on 25-27 June 2014 at the Penglais Campus of Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.

‘A Child’s World – Next Steps’ Conference has been devised to build on the success of the 2012 conference ‘A Child’s World: Working Together for a Better Future’, focusing on new concepts in Raising Standards, Curriculum Development and Safeguarding Children, with the aim of enabling collaboration, creating effective policy and sharing best practice in childhood studies within an international strategic dimension.

Focused primarily at an educational research and professional audience, the findings will be relevant across a range of disciplines, including governmental policy formulation, social care, and operational delivery of public services. The wide ranging scope of the conference will be highly applicable for international, national, regional and local government, along with education professionals and will be of direct interest to the general public.

It is intended that selected papers will be published in an edited book, providing the opportunity to identify and share best practice amongst subject professionals.

The School of Education and Lifelong Learning welcomes and invites submission of abstracts for presentation and dissemination at the conference on the following themes:

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN  

Children’s Rights and Voice

Leadership and Management

Training and Professional Development for all stakeholders involved with children

CURRICULUM

Transition Across Phases

Technology Enhanced Learning

Learner Engagement & Support

RAISING STANDARDS

Numeracy and Literacy

Addressing Underachievement

Training and Professional Development for all stakeholders involved with children

 

Abstracts should outline the issue addressed, methods and approaches, results and conclusions. The School of Education and Lifelong Learning welcomes the submission of abstracts in English or Welsh.

The form for submitting abstract proposals can be reached through the following hyperlink: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/sell/conference2014/abstract-sub/

Presentations must not exceed 20 minute duration.

Abstract Submission Details

Summary:	no more than 100 words
Title:	no more than 30 words
Issue Addressed:	no more than 100 words
Methods and Approaches:	no more than 100 words
Results:	no more than 100 words
Conclusions:	no more than 100 words

 

The initial closing date for abstract submission is Friday 29 November 2013

Proposals will be reviewed against the following criteria

          Relevance to the conference aims

          Clarity and coherence of the proposal

All accepted conference papers will be published in Conference Proceedings

 

REGISTRATION FEES: Further details will be available soon

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/sell/conference2014/

Flyer:  A Childs World – Next steps.docx

 

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A Child’s World Conference

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A CHILD’S WORLD CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS

On behalf of the conference organisers and speakers, we would like to invite you to participate in the following international conference:

          A Child’s World – Working Together for a Better Future

          27-29th June 2012

          Venue: Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

Organised and hosted by the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Aberystwyth University www.aber.ac.uk/sell

 

Key Speakers include:

Leighton Andrews AM, Minister for Education & Skills, Welsh Government

Professor Jouni Välijärvi, National PISA Coordinator, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland;

Keith Towler, Children’s Commissioner for Wales;

Ann Keane, Chief Inspector Estyn

 

“A Child’s World – Working Together for a Better Future” Conference has been devised to frame new concepts in collaborative practice in childhood studies against social, legislative and organisational changes within an international strategic dimension.

In line with embedding Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC), raising standards, promoting pupil participation and developing effective leadership and management, collaborative working is a vital tool in creating effective policy and shared practice.

Focused primarily at an educational research and professional audience, the findings will be relevant across a range of disciplines, including governmental policy formulation, social care and operational delivery of public services. The wide ranging scope of the conference will be highly applicable for national, regional and local government, education professionals and of direct interest to the general public.

It is intended that a series of papers of academic quality and scholarly importance will be published, providing the opportunity to identify and share best practice amongst subject professionals.

The School of Educationand Lifelong Learning welcomes and invites submission of abstracts for presentation and dissemination at the conference on the following themes:

 

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Embedding ESDGC in whole curriculum

Pupil Participation

Collaborative Working

 

EARLY YEARS

Transition from play-based learning

Leadership and Management

Collaborative Working

 

RAISING STANDARDS

Numeracy and Literacy

Assessment

Collaborative working

 

Abstracts should outline the issue addressed, methods and approaches, results and conclusions. The School of Education and Lifelong Learning welcomes the submission of abstracts in English or Welsh.

The form for submitting abstract proposals can be reached through the following hyperlink:                http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/sell/a-childs-world-conference/abstract-sub/

Presentations must not exceed 20 minute duration.

The initial closing date for abstract submission is Friday 25 November 2011

 

Proposals will be reviewed against the following criteria

          * Relevance to the conference aims

          * Clarity and coherence of the proposal

 

All accepted conference papers will be published in Conference Proceedings

 

REGISTRATION FEES: Further details will be available soon

 

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Global Studies of Childhood – Volume 1 Number 2 (2011)

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GLOBAL STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD – VOLUME 1 NUMBER 2 (2011)

Now available at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/GSCH/content/pdfs/1/issue1_2.asp

GLOBAL STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD
Volume 1 Number 2 2011, ISSN 1463-9491
 

SPECIAL ISSUE
CHILDREN ON THE MOVE: The impact of involuntary and voluntary migration on the lives of children
Guest Editors: ADA LAI & RUPERT MACLEAN

Ada Lai & Rupert Maclean. Editorial. Children on the Move: the impact of involuntary and voluntary migration on the lives of children

Ravinder Sidhu, Sandra Taylor & Pam Christie. Schooling and Refugees: engaging with the complex trajectories of globalisation

Su-Ann Oh. Rice, Slippers, Bananas and Caneball: children’s narratives of internal displacement and forced migration from Burma

Rajeshwari Asokaraj. Resisting Bare Life: children’s reproduction of quotidian culture in a Sri Lankan camp

Antonina Tereshchenko & Helena C. Araújo. Stories of Belonging: Ukrainian immigrant children’s experiences of Portugal

Celeste Y.M. Yuen & Rosalind Wu. New Schooling and New Identities: Chinese immigrant students’ perspectives

 

COLLOQUIUM

Kim Fong Poon-McBrayer. Model Minority and Learning Disabilities: double jeopardy for Asian immigrant children in the USA

 

BOOK REVIEW
Childhood and Consumer Culture (David Buckingham & Vebjrg Tingstad, Eds), reviewed by Keith Cranwell
PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION. Subscription to the 2011 issues is available to private individuals at a cost of US$50.00. If you wish to subscribe immediately you may do so online at www.wwwords.co.uk/subscribeGSCH.asp

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION (institution-wide access). If you are working within an institution that maintains a Library, please urge them to take out a subscription so that we can provide access throughout your institution; details of subscription rates and access control arrangements for libraries can be found at www.symposium-journals.co.uk/prices.html

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editors at GSCH@ied.edu.hk

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the journal articles on the website, please email the publishers at support@symposium-journals.co.uk

 

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Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE 2011)

Education

IRELAND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION (IICE 2011)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2011)
October 3-5, 2011, Dublin, Ireland (www.iicedu.org)
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The IICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education.

The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The IICE 2011 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

The topics in IICE-2011 include but are not confined to the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Competitive Skills
*Continuing Education
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*E-Manufacturing
*ESL/TESL
*E-Society
*Geographical Education
*Geographic information systems
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Home Education
*Human Computer Interaction
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Internet technologies
*Imaginative Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Mobile Applications
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Reading Education
*Writing Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*Ubiquitous Computing
*Virtual Reality
*Wireless applications
*Other Areas of Education

 

Important Dates:

*Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: June 15, 2011 
*Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: June 30, 2011
*Proposal for Workshops: July 15, 2011 
*Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: July 20, 2011 
*Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: June 25, 2011
*Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection: June 25, 2011
*Camera Ready Paper Due: July 10, 2011
*Early Bird Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants): June 1, 2011- July 31, 2011 
*Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants): July 31, 2011 – September 15, 2011
*Conference Dates: October 03-05, 2011

 
For further information please visit IICE-2011 at www.iicedu.org

 

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Lockdown High – Annette Fuentes

Lockdown High

LOCKDOWN HIGH – ANNETTE FUENTES

Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

By Annette Fuentes

This book is a riveting report on the overblown fear of violence that turns American schools into prisons and students into suspects.

In the dozen years since the shootings at Columbine High School, hysteria has distorted the media’s coverage of school violence and American schools’ responses to it. School violence has actually been falling steadily throughout the last decade, and yet schools across the country have never been more preoccupied with security.

This climate of fear has created ripe conditions for the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young people’s rights, dignity, and educational freedoms. In what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, the policing and practices of the juvenile justice system increasingly infiltrate the schoolhouse. These “Zero tolerance” measures push the most vulnerable and academically needy students out of the classroom and into harm’s way.

Investigative reporter Annette Fuentes visits schools across America and finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, teachers carrying guns, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. She also reveals the many industries and “experts” who have vested interests in perpetuating the Lockdown High model. Her moving stories will astonish and anger readers, as she makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence.

Verso Books: http://www.versobooks.com/books/555-lockdown-high

Reviews

“[The] penetration of prison culture into daily life and particularly schools has been brilliantly traced by USwriter Annette Fuentes in Lockdown High” –– Bidisha, Guardian

“[A] well-argued book … packed with the anecdotally eye-catching and hard, persuasive data. Fuentes’s detailed and daunting investigation … is a wakeup call.” –– Publishers Weekly

“Examples of zero-tolerance policies taken to absurd levels are attention-grabbing, but the real story, spelled out [in Lockdown High] with clarity and a touch of anger, is a disturbing one that should concern members of school boards, principals, teachers and parents. ” –– Kirkus Reviews

“[A] chilling report … extremely well-written.” — Library Journal

“Lockdown High is a wake up call for Americans who care about how schools treat children and young people … This book is a must read for school boards, school administrators and parents.” –– Rodney Skager

“Fuentes’ style is smart and accessible, her material both revelatory and relevant—it’s not only parents who will stay up late reading Lockdown High, but anyone interested in where we are headed.” –– Nell Bernstein

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Materialist Readings of Children’s Literature and Culture

Children at Work

MATERIALIST READINGS OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Call for Papers

Materialist Readings of Children’s Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays

Call for papers for an edited collection tentatively titled Materialist Readings of Children’s Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays.  This collection will consist primarily of new analyses, but will also include previously published essays in order to chart the development of materialist criticism of children’s literature, culture, and film.   

Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• The way in which children’s literature supports or, conversely, challenges class hierarchies, especially as they intersect with gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity

• The “political unconscious” in works of children’s literature

• Cognitive mapping

• Class conflict in children’s literature and film

• Depictions of the working class, labor history, socialism, and revolution

• Children’s literature and the left

• Materialist-feminist criticism and children’s literature and culture

• Materialist analyses of post-colonial children’s literature and culture 

• The political economy of children’s literature and culture

Please direct inquiries and submissions to the editor, Dr. Angela Hubler, atahubler@ksu.edu.  500 words abstracts, brief biography, and short C.V. are due by September 18th, 2011.  Complete essays must be submitted as an attachment in Microsoft Word, following MLA guidelines for citation and format, by November 18th, 2011.  A potential publisher has expressed interest, and a proposal will be submitted after abstracts are received. 

Editor Angela Hubler is Associate Professor in Women’s Studies atKansasStateUniversity, where she teaches courses in feminist theory, female adolescence, and women’s writing and culture.  Her recent publications analyze literary representations of collective political action in literature for children and adults. Her essays have been published in The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Critical Survey, Papers on Language and Literature, Women’s Studies Quarterly, the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, and edited collections.  

 

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‘I believe in the afterlife.

It starts tomorrow,

When I go to work’

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‘Maximum levels of boredom

Disguised as maximum fun’

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Bridging Theory and Practice: Partnerships and Collaboration in Childhood Services

Children at Work

BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE: PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION IN CHILDHOOD SERVICES

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE
Bridging Theory and Practice: Partnerships and Collaboration in Childhood Services
Guest Editor: ESTHER CHAN, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Partnerships and collaborations between the professions, families and communities are an increasingly important dimension of policy landscapes internationally. Across a range of disciplinary fields whose practitioners work with and on behalf of children, there is an expectation that professional knowledge and service are at their most effective when there is meaningful collaboration with stakeholders.

This has important implications for pre-service education and professional development, as well as for the day-to-day working lives of practitioners working to support children in family and community settings, education, allied health services and the social service sectors. It also raises significant questions about the ways in which partnerships are established and maintained, as well presenting a range of challenges and opportunities pertaining to the future of professional engagement with stakeholders.

This special issue of the new journal Global Studies of Childhood (www.wwwords.co.uk/GSCH) will make a critical contribution to understanding the ways in which practitioners engage with children, families and communities in a variety of contexts. This will involve describing and interrogating current projects, as well as problematizing the issues around partnerships and collaborations. For example, papers may consider the tensions around policy rhetorics that invite partnerships and then are selective in their application of the initiatives to suit personal or political imperatives.

Contributors might consider the following issues and questions: Is collaboration with stakeholders’ project currently an essential element in the process of educational reform? When partnerships and collaborations are instigated, what is the impact on professionals, teachers, children as well as parents? In what way is practice and policy in a given area shaped by the voices of a variety of stakeholders? In what ways can professional educators and/or practitioners work with communities to meet children’s needs?

Contributors are advised to read the ‘How to Contribute’ guidelines on the GSCH website before submission: www.wwwords.co.uk/gsch/howtocontribute.asp

Submissions are due by 30 September, 2011 and should be submitted via email to the Guest Editor: Esther Chan (echan@ied.edu.hk)

TIMELINE
May 31, 2011 – expression of interest with 300 word abstract
September 30, 2011 – Manuscript submission
October – November 2011: Selection Review process
December 2011: Feedback to authors
January 31, 2012: Final papers due
Publication March 2012

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Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society

Karl Marx

MARXIST PERSPECTIVES ON IRISH SOCIETY

 

“The worst about the Irish is that they become corruptible as soon as they stop being peasants and turn bourgeois” – Engels to Marx, Sept 27, 1869.

Call for Papers
Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society

The Limerick Marxist Reading Group is to hold its first annual conference October 22nd – 23rd 2010 at the University of Limerick. We are seeking papers that offer Marxist perspectives on any aspect of modern Ireland, particularly those dealing with:
• Ireland and the World System
• Partition, Religious Sectarianism, the Peace Process
• The Labour Movement
• The Capitalist State
• Community Activism
• Racism
• Church and State
• Publicly Funded Education
• National and International Capital
• Civil Disobedience and Social Control
• The Capitalist Media
• Cultural Politics
• Public/Private Partnerships
• Children in State and Religious Institutions
• The Role of Finance Capital
• Unemployment, Poverty, Inequality
• Ecology, Environmentalist Movements
• Gender Inequality
• FDI Dependent Development
• Ireland’s Experience of Boom and Bust
• Emigration, Immigration
• Rights of LGBT Community
• Ideological Change in Ireland
• Language, Literature
• Socialist and Left Currents
• Minority Rights

Deadline for abstracts: July 30, 2010.

All proposals to be sent to limerickmarxistreadinggroup@live.ie

Please note that it is the intention of the committee to publish selected conference proceedings in some form. Successful contributors may be asked to resubmit their conference paper as a referenced article.
Submissions of proposals should include:

• Paper title
• Presenter’s name and contact information, institution, research 
interests and a short 50 word
biography.
• Brief abstract (no more than 500 words)

All paper presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.
Organised by the Limerick Marxist Reading Group – further details available at: http://limerickmarxistreadinggroup.webs.com

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