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
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
Michelle Lyttle Storrod, PhD Student, coauthored “Youth violence: rise could be linked to British people’s growing distrust of authority”
Michelle Lyttle Storrod, Childhood Studies PhD Student, coauthored an article for The Conversation entitled “Youth violence: rise could be linked to British people’s growing distrust of authority. Read the full article here.
Dr. Dan Cook editorializes on childhood studies and the Mexico-US migration “crisis”
The mire of its own construction? Childhood studies and the “crisis” at the Mexico-U.S. border by Dr. Dan Cook The “zero tolerance” policy of the US President Donald Trump Administration forcefully separated children from parents/guardians as they attempted to enter the United States at the Mexico border beginning in the spring of 2018. It was… continue reading