The Department of Childhood Studies welcomes Anthony Wright to the faculty in Fall 2019. Anthony Wright will receive his PhD in medical anthropology this spring from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. His research uses ethnographic methods to explore technologically mediated processes of care and communication among young people in life-threatening circumstances, from … Continue reading Anthony Wright Joins the the Department in Fall 2019…
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Congratulations to Ryan Bunch for being awarded the H. Earle Johnson Publication Subvention
Ryan Bunch was awarded the H.Earle Johnson Publication Subvention from the Society of American Music for his forthcoming book Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale, to be published by Oxford University Press. To learn more about the subvention, go to the American Music website.
Dr. Susan Miller was recently interview on 1A about Scouting
Dr. Susan Miller was recently interviewed by 1A for a segment called “Scouting Out New Horizons in 2019”. Listen to what she has to say here. You can read more about this topic here.
Cyber Warfare: Doctoral Student, Michelle Lyttle-Storrod, Warns of Street Gangs’ Use of Social Media and Mobile Devices
In his recent State of the Union address, President Donald Trump talked about the scourge of gangs in the United States and the ongoing measures to eliminate them. Accounts of turf wars, members’ loyalties, and peer-on-peer violence ring disturbingly familiar, but they now extend into previously unchartered territory: cyberspace, explains a Rutgers University–Camden doctoral student. … Continue reading Cyber Warfare: Doctoral Student, Michelle Lyttle-Storrod, Warns of Street Gangs’ Use of Social Media and Mobile Devices…
Dr. Daniel Cook is the co-editor of the recently published Reimagining Childhood Studies
Dr. Dan Cook is co-editor of the recently published Reimagining Childhood Studies (London: Bloomsbury) which has chapters by, among others, Sarada Balagopalan, Stephen Bernardini, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, David Oswell, Kristen Cheney, Jo Boyden and Jason Hart.
Dr. Kate Cairns published a new article in the Harvard Educational Review: “Beyond Magic Carrots: Garden Pedagogies and the Rhetoric of Effects”
In this essay, Dr. Cairns considers the implications of assessing garden pedagogies, arguing that a rhetoric of effects assumes an essentialist conception of the child-as-educational-output and bolsters a neoliberal vision of social change rooted in personal transformation. Drawing from ethnographic research with youth gardens in Toronto, Ontario, and Camden, New Jersey, she highlights contextualized experiences … Continue reading Dr. Kate Cairns published a new article in the Harvard Educational Review: “Beyond Magic Carrots: Garden Pedagogies and the Rhetoric of Effects”…