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…
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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”…
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 Dr. Dan Cook editorializes on childhood studies and the Mexico-US migration “crisis”…
Dr. Kate Cairns has a new coauthored article, “The Polluted Child and Maternal Responsibility in the US Environmental Health Movement”
Dr. Kate Cairns has a new coauthored article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Read the full article here.