Dear Section Members,
We are proud to announce that we are working on the Fall Issue of the Children and Youth News, and we need your help. The publications committee welcomes contributions from members in the following areas: Announcements: Upcoming conferences, employment openings, and opportunities for funding/publishing. Accomplishments: Promotions, honors, and awards. Publications: Recently published books and articles. Current Events: Issues affecting children and youth across the globe. Features: Excellent centers, websites, leaders in research on children and youth. HOW TO SUBMIT: Please make all formal submissions to the Meghan Mordy , co-editor, at [email protected] by Wednesday 9/19/12 at 5pm EST. Newsletter content may be published on the website [http://childrenandyouth.weebly.com/index.html] prior to its publication in the newsletter. As usual, all appropriate submissions will also be posted on our section website. Please take the time to share your news with us today. Thank you! Janel Benson, Publications Chair Meghan Mordy and Jason Blind, Newsletter Co-Editors The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce our fourth Request for Proposals (RFP) on Understanding the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice. This purpose of the RFP is to help us better understand how research evidence is acquired, interpreted, and used in policy and practice that affect youth. The next deadline for letters of inquiry is April 3, 2012.
The regular application deadline for Global Youth Connect’s Summer 2012 Human Rights Programs in Rwanda, Bosnia, and New York City is January 30th.
All of these programs (including the NYC program) are open to young leaders from around the USA and Canada. The age range for the NYC program is 16 - 30 years and for Rwanda and Bosnia the range is 18 - 35. Each program includes a human rights and/or conflict resolution workshop, volunteer service with grassroots organizations, and key site visits for learning and action -- such as the visit depicted in the picture above. People can apply to one or multiple programs. More information about the programs can be found at the Global Youth Connect program website: http://www.globalyouthconnect.org/participate.html We are pleased to announce a new digital database of children and youth scholarship. We also seek recommendations regarding additional citations from section members.
Background: The database is hosted by Mendeley, a free service that you can access at: Mendeley Group: Sociology of Childhood. Although you do not have to be a member of Mendeley to view the annotated list of texts, membership allows you to utilize the service as a citation management tool. Moreover, groups like Mendeley can be used collaboratively, rendering this bibliography as a living document that can be edited and expanded over time. It is an effective management tool for retaining classic texts, promoting members' new publications, and ensuring that young scholars have a credible resource tool on the sociology of children and youth. I seek your assistance with the following: 1) Although I have established the bibliography with an extensive number of citations (note that editing the citations to check for data accuracy is currently underway), I seek recommendations from experienced section members regarding key texts in the sociology of children and youth. Please email me ([email protected]) the names of authors and publication titles that you believe should be included in this bibliography. I look forward to adding your suggestions. 2) I encourage you to bookmark or -- better yet -- join the Mendeley Sociology of Childhood group. As noted above, Mendeley is free and provides another valuable resource for academic work. If you run into any issues with the website, please contact me for assistance. Thanks again! I look forward to adding your suggested titles to the bibliography. Best, Matthew Rafalow Website Editor, Section on Children & Youth A Message from Gertrud Lenzer: Children’s Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service11/18/2011
Our Children’s Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service convened the National Consultation – “Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children”, held at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York on November 4th, and it was most successful. It was fitting that on the 20th anniversary of our founding the interdisciplinary field of Children’s Studies instead of celebrating, we focused on the epidemic conditions of violence against children in our nation and issued a call for national dialogue and action. For your and the Section member’s interest, here is the link to the Consultation website: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/childrensstudies/nationalconsultation2011/
Here is also the PR Newswire and press release about the Consultation. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/researchers-policymakers-call-on-us-government-to-take-immediate-action-to-address-national-epidemic-of-child-abuse-and-violence-against-children-133380638.html We are proud to announce that we are working on the Fall Issue of the Children and Youth News, and we need your help.
The publications committee welcomes contributions from members in the following areas: Announcements: Upcoming conferences, employment openings, and opportunities for funding/publishing. Accomplishments: Promotions, honors, and awards. Publications: Recently published books and articles. Current Events: Issues affecting children and youth across the globe. Features: Excellent centers, websites, leaders in research on children and youth. HOW TO SUBMIT: Please make all formal submissions to the new Publications Chair, Janel Benson ([email protected]) by Friday 11/4/11 at 5pm EST. Any submissions received after the submission date will be forwarded to the Winter newsletter. Newsletter content may be published on the website[http://www2.asanet.org/sectionchildren] prior to its publication in the newsletter. As usual, all appropriate submissions will also be posted on our section website. Please take the time to share your news with us today. Thank you! The Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS) provides free online access to a half-century of consistently-coded data on child and adult health conditions, health care, and health behaviors. Based on the public use files of the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the IHIS project is carried out by researchers at the University of Minnesota with funding from NIH. IHIS includes thousands of variables on such topics as child mental health problems and treatment, use of complementary and alternative medicine by children, child disability, children with special needs, health conditions (e.g., autism, asthma, ADD, and hundreds more), general health, and use of medical services. The IHIS data extract system allows researchers to create a customized data file with the years and variables needed for their analysis, or data can be analyzed using an online tabulator. For more information, visit the IHIS website atwww.ihis.us or e-mail [email protected].
We have started the production of the next edition of the Child and Youth Newsletter. We are excited to share with you all of the accomplishments of our section members. If you haven't sent your latest news, there is still a little bit of time to do so. Please, take a break from working on your ASA presentations to send us your announcement by this Saturday (August 6th) and we will be happy to feature it right before we head out to Las Vegas!
As usual, consider submitting information/short write-ups/suggestions including but not limited to: - Accomplishments (Promotions, awards, updates) - Announcements (Upcoming conferences/opportunities for funding/publishing, job announcements) - Current Events (Issues affecting children and youth across the globe) - Publications - Other features (Excellence centers, websites, leaders in research on children and youth). Send your contributions to our Newsletter Editor, Sarah Ovink, at smovink(at)ucdavis.edu. If you have questions for us please contact the Publications Chair, Elizabeth Vaquera, at evaquera(at)usf.edu. We look forward to working with you in making our third year of the revived Child and Youth News a success! Thank you! Elizabeth Vaquera The Section Publication Chair Have you recently taught a course on “Childhood and Youth”? Are you updating your syllabus? Have you just read a very interesting book or seen a new documentary relevant to childhood and youth? Do you want to help fellow C&Y scholars? If so, we would like for you to participate in this call for materials.
What can you share? Some examples of what we would like to receive are: - Syllabi - Names of books, articles, movies or documentaries that are well received by your students - Classroom exercises and group activities that have been particularly effective - Class projects The fine print: the C&Y Publication Committee will organize this information and will make it available to the C&Y section members through the Newsletter and/or the website. Of course, we will acknowledge your contributions. Please send your materials and or questions to Elizabeth Vaquera at [email protected]. Looking forward to hearing from many of you! The C&Y Publication Committee The annual volume Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY) welcomes proposals for a themed Special Volume (#15) to be published in 2012 with named Guest Editor(s) on topics that fall within the scope of the volume. Applications from proposed Guest Editor(s) should outline the aims and objectives of the special volume including a brief overview and summary of the overarching themes and points of coherence that tie together the proposed articles. The successful Guest Editor(s) will manage the Volume’s normal peer review process in coordination with the Series Editor and Editorial Board. More information about the SSCY and its creation in 1986 by members of the ASA’s Section on Children and Youth can be accessed on the SSCY website: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1537-4661.
Proposals for a Special Volume 15 should include the following: · A suggested title for the Special Volume 15 · Proposed aims and objectives, giving an overview of the Special Volume’s intended focus and a list of the topics to be covered, proposed article areas, and a list of possible contributing authors; · The proposed Guest Editor(s) name, contact details, affiliations, a brief biographical paragraph, and any previous editorial experience; and · A proposed timeline for a call for research papers, peer-review process and eventual publication of volume 15 in late 2012. Applications should be submitted electronically to Series Editor, Loretta Bass by the closing date of Saturday, April 30, 2011. Email: [email protected] |
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