A new toolkit for PSHE and Citizenship Education classes called ‘Let’s Talk About…’ has just been released and is now free to download on the project section of the Childhood Publics Research Programme website. In the blog post that follows, Melissa Nolas, the Director of the Childhood Publics Research Programme, writes about the background and …

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Elina Moraitopoulou is a doctoral student at the University of Hamburg and a researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Elina has been experimenting with the photographs from the Connectors Collection in Children’s Photography Archive for her doctoral research and here she writes about her experience with children in English primary schools.  I am caught …

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In this post Martin Bittner, Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis, all members of the Childhood Publics Network, reflect on their recent participation at the 6th Ethnography in Education conference in Halle, Germany and how this is a great example of working collaboratively in a network. 

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Melissa and Christos reflect on methods in multimodal ethnography to think about how these might relate to knowledge exchange

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Over the next few months, we are looking to build up a resource for those of us involved in the teaching of childhood and youth studies, in whatever guise or disciplinary space, with an emphasis on the relationship between childhood and public life, children’s participation, childhood agency, and children’s politics. We ask for your assistance in creating an arts & hums reading/viewing list for childhood and youth studies students and researchers.

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Last autumn we ran an experimental online public engagement series called ‘earliest political memories’. We collected a total of 68 memories that were generously contributed by members of the public. You can read all the contributions here. The series caught the attention of our colleague Rachel O’Connell in the School of English who convenes the …

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