[ecrea] Call for Papers - Global Studies of CHildhood

We are editing a special issue for the Global Studies of Childhood 
Journal on 'Childhood futures: better childhoods? -- the call is at the 
link below. More information about the journal is here: 
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/gsch/

Here's a taster of what we're looking for from papers:

/This Special Issue seeks to explore the aspirations and anxieties about 
the future that are mobilised in discussions of what constitutes a 
better life for children, and to examine how these aspirations are 
translated into lived experiences for young people. It is particularly 
concerned with the diversity of future visions and material resources 
that are available to make better childhoods around the world, and the 
implications of such diversity for social justice. /

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/Some contributors may be clear that 'better childhoods' are possible, 
may be working on that basis and would value the opportunity to report 
on that work. Others might wish to raise awareness about the 
distribution of power to decide what is 'better'. They might have fresh 
accounts to give of the unequal distribution of 'betterment'. Others 
still might think the idea of 'better childhoods' is so compromised that 
we need to think in quite different ways.  Our aim is to foster clear 
expression of a full range of views and of debate between them. /

http://www.wwwords.co.uk/gsch/pdf/Call-for-Papers-Better-Childhoods-GSCH.pdf

All the best

Keri Facer, Nick Lee, Rachel Holmes

Professor Keri Facer

Education and Social Research Institute

Manchester Metropolitan University

799 WIlmslow Road

Manchester

M20 2RR

0161 247 2412

@kerileef

skype: keri facer

(k.facer /at/ mmu.ac.uk)

Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Society (Routledge: London & 
New York) 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Futures-Education-Technology-Social/dp/0415581435 


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