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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: [log in to unmask])

Further information:

Allison James, CSSC, School of Comparative and Applied 
Social Sciences, University of Hull 
(e-mail: [log in to unmask])

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Dr. S.A.McNamee
Centre for the Social Study of Childhood
School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences
University of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull
HU6 7RX

Tel: 01482 465796
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