Call for papers-"Sites of Learning"

Stephanie Urso Spina (sspina who-is-at email.GC.cuny.edu)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:57:38 -0500 (EST)

Hello all --
This was forwarded to me and seems of interest to the group, especially in
relationn to recent discussions of formal/informal learning, so I
thought I would pass it along.
Stephanie

Stephanie Urso Spina
City University of New York

> ----Original Message-----
> From: S.A.McNamee
> To: child-youth-geosocial-env who-is-at mailbase.AC.UK
> Sent: 1/13/99 12:19 PM
> Subject: call for papers
>
> Please distribute this widely. Apologies for cross posting.
>
> THE CENTRE FOR THE SOCIAL STUDY OF CHILDHOOD
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> "SITES OF LEARNING"
>
> 14th - 16th September 1999
> Dennison Centre, University of Hull
>
> This conference address the theme of children's learning in
> and across a diverse range of social settings - home,
> school, playground, street, media and Internet. The aim is
> to broaden the conventional understanding of learning as
> the formal structures and system of the school by bringing
> attention to the potentials and resources that children
> draw on and contribute to in their everyday lives. In the
> call for papers we particularly welcome contributions that
> focus on the different forms, modes and processes that
> children engage with and make use of among themselves and
> in interaction with adults. The aim of the conference is
> also to bring researchers engaged with the social study of
> children together to discuss whether and how children's own
> forms of production of knowledge and social experience can
> be better integrated and developed in formal learning.
>
> * The transfer and exchange of knowledge by
> children across and between different sites - between home,
> school and street between siblings at home; between peers
> in the play-ground
>
> * Ways and modes of children's learning -
> generational, spatial and bodily; collective and
> individual strategies of learning; imaginative and other
> creative forms of learning
>
> * Children's resources for learning - their social,
> economic,political and material capital and the
> distribution and diversity of knowledge among children.
>
> * Children's resistance to learning and patterns of
> subversion, challenge and refusal; appropriate and
> inappropriate knowledges and children's exclusion from the
> processes and patterns of learning.
>
> Plenary Speakers :
> Prof. Andrew Pollard, University of Bristol
> Dr. Alan Prout, University of Hull
>
>
>
> Abstracts invited, by 15th March to:
> Pia Christensen, CSSC, School of Comparative and
> Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull
> (e-mail: p.h.christensen who-is-at cas.hull.ac.uk)
>
> Further information:
>
> Allison James, CSSC, School of Comparative and Applied
> Social Sciences, University of Hull
> (e-mail: a.james who-is-at cas.hull.ac.uk)
>
> ----------------------
> S.A.McNamee
> School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences
> University of Hull
> Cottingham Road
> Hull
> HU6 7RX
>
> Tel: 01482 465796
> S.A.McNamee who-is-at cas.hull.ac.uk