>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 childrenís 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 childrenís 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 childrenís 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
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>
>Further information:
>
>Allison James, CSSC, School of Comparative and Applied
>Social Sciences, University of Hull
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>
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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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Dear Sir:

As a high school Language Arts and Media Education Teacher/Coordinator of
at-risk students, in the Alternative Career Education Program, in Deux
Montagnes, Quebec, Canada, as well as a doctoral candidate (due to complete
my dissertation in the summer), I read with interest your call for papers.

I am very interested in submitting a proposal, based on my research, which
I believe is approapriate for the conference as planned.

However, I do not have the personal funds, and governemnt support is
strained for such an endeavour at this time.  Prior to submitting a
proposal, could you tell me if there are sources of funding from Britain to
support my presenting.

Thank you!

Respectfully,

Lee Rother




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