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CALL FOR PAPERS/ PARTICIPANTS

What is Childhood Studies- and how do we teach it in the classroom?

The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association

New York University

New York City

May 22-24, 2008

“Childhood” has become a hotly contested subject in academic discourse.
Its growth in popularity parallels the emphasis over the last half
century in the field of cultural studies to give voice to the
“voiceless.“ Childhood & Children’s Studies now occupy an important
place in academia, as illustrated by the fact that York University in
Toronto and Rutgers University have both recently added degree granting
Children’s Studies programs. In this seminar, a potential syllabus for
a first year undergraduate course “Introduction to Children’s Studies”
will be looked at - and a series of constructivist activities will be
used for each week of the syllabus- to illustrate ways of engaging
student activity and critical thought in both small seminar and large
lecture style classrooms. Participants in this seminar are asked to
read the /United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child/
(available at http://www.unicef.org/crc/) in advance and come to the
seminar with an activity designed to help teach some aspect of the
convention. At the completion of the workshop each participant will be
given a copy of each of the seminar’s activities, in addition to a copy
of each of the activities designed by the other 14 participants. Please
note that this is a workshop for all teachers, not only those in
childhood studies, since many of the activities used in this workshop
can be adapted and used to cover other areas of cultural studies. The
seminar is being taught by Stephen Gennaro. Stephen Gennaro is a
cultural historian of youth and media. He has over 10 years of teaching
experience at all levels from nursery school to undergraduate and has
been developing curriculum for public school boards and private
institutions for close to 15 years. Stephen is currently teaching in the
Children’s Studies Department at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Interested parties please contact:

Stephen Gennaro
Children’s Studies,
Division of Humanities
76 Winters Lane
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 1P3

By William Bush, Thu, November 15, 2007 - 5:22 pm
Categories: Research

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of each of the activities designed by the other 14 participants.

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Studying childhood and the culture surrounding it provides crucial insights into core values and practices of our society, revealing how American culture reproduces itself in the younger generation.

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