Registration for the conference is closed.

This conference is a joint initiative of the Urban Education Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the School of Education, University College Dublin.

The Center for Human Environments (CHE), the Public Science Project, and the New Media Lab, are co-sponsors of the conference.

It is scheduled for March 24-26, 2011 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

“… 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.

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