Pathways to parental leadership – Transnational Conference
researching children, global childhoods & education
“… the goal of moving children from the margins to the center of knowledge depends on efforts and advocacy by those who once were, but are no longer children, and who structurally have more power – in contrast with other subordinate groups … who have pushed to represent themselves.” (Thorne, 2002)
The main objective of the conference is to bring together leading experts in the fields of Critical Childhood and Educational Studies. In doing so we seek to advance theories and methodological practices that cultivate children’s agency in the research and educational process. The conference is interdisciplinary drawing on current state of the art knowledge regarding children and changing childhoods from the diverse fields of sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, cultural geography and education. Central themes will include issues related to power, generation, identities and subjectivities (e.g. gender, ethnicity/race, class, sexualities), children’s language, and cultural and social brokering, as these are influenced by broader processes of globalization, extreme economic inequalities, migration, political violence, exclusion/inclusion, consumption, commercialization and children/youth activism.
http://globalchildhoods.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
