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 CCCS
NEWS and CAMPUS EVENTS
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| Nov 17, 2004 |
Award to Encourage Science Fair Participation in Camden City and Salem County.
 Dr. Bill Whitlow received a 5-year $1.15 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This grant is for "SPARC 2000+: Science Fair Drug Abuse Science Literacy"
>>> more |
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| Dec
6-10, 2004 |
Angela
Connor-Morris (CCCS
Senior
Program Director ) and Becky Heritage (CCCS
Service and Outreach Program
Coordinator) attended
the annual conference of the National
Association For the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
in Anaheim,
CA in early December.
NAEYC's Annual Conference & Expo is the largest gathering of early childhood
educators in the world, and a unique opportunity to reach out to leading teachers
and directors of programs for children from birth through third grade. Our Knight
Community poster presentation won an award for "the most
useful information."
Congratulations to all who worked on this project!
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| Aug
6,
2004 |
The Camden
Campaign for Children's Literacy honored
the first cohort of graduates from the Child
Development Associate (CDA) training program
at the CDA
Candidates Recognition Ceremony at
Rutgers-Camden.
>>> more |
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| April
19-20, 2004 |
| English
Composition Event at Rutgers-Camden.
Rutgers-Camden English Composition II students displayed
poster sessions of their research projects in the
multipurpose room of Campus Center. While the topics
were diverse, one whole corner of the room was devoted
to the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
For more information, please contact Dr.
Holly Blackford
>>> more
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| 1/14/2004 |
| EXPO
2004: Camden Students Flock to Science Fair |
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 On
January 14, 2004, the 9th
annual SPARC Allied Health Sciences EXPO
brought middle and high school students together with
allied health science professionals to inform and inspire
the students about careers in their fields. More than
45 representatives, from 16 organizations and institutions
involved in allied health sciences, talked with over
400 students and showed them various aspects of careers
in health science fields. >>> more |
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| 9/13/2003 |
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CCCL Campus Celebration 2003:
Reading is Fun! |
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| The
CCCS Camden Campaign for Children's Literacy
hosted another fun-filled Rutgers-Camden Campus Event,
the 2003 Summer Celebration, for local
children and their families. >>>
view pictures
and an online video! |
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PRESENTATIONS
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Associates
Seminar
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| May
6, 2004 |
Tetsuji
Yamada, PhD, Professor of Health Economics lectured
on
"Healthcare Services Accessibility of Children
in the USA"
For more information, contact Dr.
Tetsuji Yamada |
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| April
8, 2004 |
John
Wall, PhD, Assistant Professor of Religion,
presented "Ethical Perspectives on What Children
Are: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory"
For more information, contact Dr.
John Wall |
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| March
9, 2004 |
Cati
Coe, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
presented "Youth, learning, and the state in
Ghana" - View a streaming
video by Dr. Coe
For more information, contact Dr.
Cati Coe |
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| February
12, 2004 |
Dr. Holly Blackford presented "Multicultural
responses to canonical voices: Reading Huck Finn and
Scout Finch"
For more information, please contact Dr.
Holly Blackford |
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| November
6, 2003 |
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Dr.
Tom Donnelly presented "Factors in adolescence
that promote civic participation in young adulthood."
For more information, contact Dr.
Donnelly |
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| October
9, 2003 |
| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner presented, “Choiceless
Choices: Decision Making for Children with Cancer When
Cure is Not Likely” at the Center Associates’
Seminar. For more information, contact Dr.
Bluebond-Langner |
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Regional
Seminar: Rethinking Childhood
in The Twenties Century
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| May
13, 2004 |
| Where
Do We Go From Here? Directions for Future Study. Participants
consider directions for future research in childhood
studies and how that work might be best accomplished. |
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| April
22, 2004 |
| Ellen
Fennick, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education,
Widener University Center for Education, presented "After-School
Programs and Children and Youth with Disabilities: Issues
for Future Research." |
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| March
25, 2004 |
| Loretta
Bass, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology,
University of Oklahoma, presented her talk, "Making
Sense of Children’s Labor and Childhood in Sub-Saharan
Africa." |
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| February
26, 2004 |
| Ellen
Handler Spitz, Ph.D., Honors College Professor
of Visual Arts, University of Maryland, gave a presentation
on "Picture Books and the Inner Lives of Children." |
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| January
22, 2004 |
| Dr.
Chris Boyatzis, Associate Professor of Psychology,
Bucknell University, presented "The
Construction of Spiritual Meaning in Parent-Child Communication."
Boyatzis' research suggests a parent-child communication
which is less unilateral and more dynamic than previously
believed. >>> more |
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| November
13, 2003 |
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| October
23, 2003 |
Dr.
Maria Kefalas, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Saint Joseph's
University, presented "What
Good Mothers Do: Low-Income White, African American,
and Latina Mothers' Childrearing Strategies and Philosophies."
>>>
more |
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| September
25, 2003 |
First
Meeting
2003-2004 Seminar Series: Rethinking
Childhood in the Twenty-First Century. Group discussion,
“Introducing Ourselves and Our Work: Individual
and Group Goals for the Series.”
For more information contact Myra Bluebond-Langner,
Director of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies
at (856) 225-6741. |
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CCCS
Faculty Presentations
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| September
28, 2004 |
Dr.
J. T. Barbarese, presented, "Gender,
Generic Expectations, and Archetype in Picture Story
Books," at the Rutgers
Center for Historical Analysis on September 28th.
The RCHA's 2004-2005 "Gendering of Children" Project
aims to encourage
interdisciplinary research, conversation, and theoretical
synthesis of two fields – the
study of children and the study of gender.
Professor Barbarese's approach
is literary; He will be looking at the presence and
power of traditional "archetypal" plot
patterns in books with female protagonists. What
he's
noticed is that the successfully completed quest
of a female heroine ends 2/3 of the way
through: they tend not to come back, to stay in "the
woods," the
Away place. (If they return, they have to get married.
Viz Cinderella.) I.e., male and female role models
define "success" differently because the archetype
is so male-idenfied, and where the violation of the
pattern occurs most happily is in children's literature.
>>> more on the RCHA 2004-2005 Project |
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| July
9, 2004 |
| Dr.
Ted Goertzel was a "Featured
Speaker"
at a conference of the a group called Supporting the
Emotional Needs of the Gifted on July 9 in Arlington.
The WEB site is: http://www.sengifted.org/conference_schedule.shtml
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| April
5 , 2004 |
| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner was invited guest lecturer
at the Children's
Research Center, Trinity College Dublin, at the
University of Dublin, Ireland. |
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| March
31, 2004 |
| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner presented a talk on "Involving
children with life-limiting illness in medical decisions"
at the Royal
College of Paediatrics and Child Health Spring Meeting
at University of York, England, 29 March - 1 April 2004. |
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| Dr.
Stuart Charmé
gave a half-day workshop on gender issues for Jewish
children in London at "UJIA-Makor," a national
Jewish education organization in the UK in March. |
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| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner presented, “In
the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically
Ill Child” at the East Tennessee Children’s
Hospital’s CF Family Education Day (March 2004). |
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| Nancy
Rosoff, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences and a scholar who studies the history of
women and athletics presented and discussed the wildly
popular film "Bend it Like Beckham." This
event was part of the Women’s History Month lecture
program at Rutgers-Camden. |
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| March
24, 2004 |
| Dr.
Margaret Marsh, Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences and a widely regarded expert on the history
of birth control, discussed "Reproductive Rights,
Reproductive Freedom: The Early Career of Margaret Sanger."
This event was part of the Women’s History Month
lecture program at Rutgers-Camden. |
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| March
23, 2004 |
| Dr.
Holly Blackford, (Assistant professor, CCAS-English)
led a discussion of "The Red Tent". Included
in her talk on the critically acclaimed novel was a
presentation of teen readers newly initiated to the
book. |
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| March
22, 2004 |
| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner presented "I Understand,
But It Still Hurts: Well Siblings of Children with Cystic
Fibrosis" at Yale
University, Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. For
more information, contact the "Disability and Bioethics"
working research group, Carol Pollard, (203) 432-6188
or carol.pollard@yale.edu. |
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| Dr.
Charlotte Markey (Assistant Professor, Psychology)
presented “The Circular Structure of Children's
Interpersonal Behaviors” co-authored with P. M.
Markey, and B. Tinsley at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Austin,
TX. |
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| Dr.
Naomi Marmorstein (Assistant Professor, Psychology)
presented, "Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relationships
Between Antisocial Behavior and Eating Pathology: A
Community-Based Study" at the Society for Research
on Adolescence biennial meeting in Baltimore, Maryland
in March. |
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| Dr.
Cynthia Saltzman (Associate Professor, Anthropology)
currently consults on a project for the Philadelphia
Jewish Children's and Family Services, which focuses
on guiding pre-Bar and Bat Mitzvah students to conduct
oral histories of elderly Jews and then transform those
histories into a theater production. |
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| Dr.
Saltzman also consults on a project, which
involves helping a Jewish day school establish a context
for family-education by creating channels for parental
participation in celebratory, ritual events, and community
involvement. |
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| Dr.
Karen Thierry (Assistant Professor, Psychology)
presented “Developmental Differences in the Function
of Anatomical Dolls During Interviews with Alleged Sexual
Abuse Victims” at the American Psychology-Law
Society Conference in March. |
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| March
17, 2004 |
| "From
Barbie Dolls to Britney Spears: What Are Girls Learning
About Their Bodies?" - Place: Cooper Elementary
School in Cherry Hill. Presenter: Charlotte
Markey, Ph.D. of Rutgers University. The
program, March 17th was free and for adults only. |
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| March
3, 2004 |
| CCCS
Associate Dr.
Ted Goertzel discussed his latest book,
Cradles of Eminence, Second Edition
on Wednesday, March 3rd
at the Cappuccino Academy, a monthly series of free
public lectures delivered by Rutgers-Camden professors
at Barnes & Noble in Marlton, NJ. >>> more |
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| March
1, 2004 |
| Dr.
Charlotte Markey, Assistant Professor of
Psychology, led a discussion about the film "Real
Women Have Curves." This event is part of the Rutgers-Camden
Women's History Month Program. |
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| February
2004 |
| Dr.
Stuart Z. Charmé (Professor
of Religion) presented “The Clash of
Gender and Tradition for a New Generation of American
Jews” on Sunday, February 8, 2004 at
the Jewish Historical Society of New York.
>>>
To download a copy of the newsletter which
describes this event, click on the
logo of the format you prefer. 
or 
His film "Kotel: Jewish Teens on
Gender and Tradition" was included
in the 2003 Jewish Book Month list of new and noteworthy
books and videos for children and teens.
http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/newsresources_files/bklist_juvi.htm
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| November
2003 |
| Dr.
Cindy Dell Clark (Assistant Professor, Human
Development and Family Studies – Penn State),
was interviewed for the Comcast Cable “Newsmakers”
program. November is National Diabetes month and Dell
Clark was interviewed on how children cope with diabetes,
the focus of her recently published book, In
Sickness and in Play (Rutgers University Press,
2003). |
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| Dr.
Sheila Cosminsky (Associate Professor, Anthropology)
and Diane Markowitz (Associate Professor, Geography
& Anthropology) gave presentations on childhood
obesity to the Gloucester County Social Service's migrant
parent's meeting at schools in Bridgeton, NJ and Hammonton,
NJ. |
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| Dr.
Holly Blackford (Assistant Professor, English)
presented, “Beyond Identity Politics, Beyond Harry
Potter: The Surprising Formalist Reading Practices of
Girls 8-16," at the conference of the National
Council of Teachers of English in San Francisco, California
in November. |
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| Dr.
Ted Goertzel (Professor, Sociology) was the
keynote speaker at the National Association for Gifted
Children meeting in Indianapolis on November 14th. He
gave a presentation on his new book, Cradles
of Eminence: Childhoods of More than Four Hundred Famous
Men and Women (Second Edition, Great Potential Press,
Inc. 2003). |
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Dr.
Jane Siegel (Assistant Professor, Criminal
Justice) delivered a
paper, "Fighting Behavior of Female Offenders'
Daughters," at the American
Society of Criminology meetings in Denver in November.
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| Fall
2003 |
| Dr.
Beth Adelson (Associate Professor, Psychology)
was guest editor on September's special edition of the
Franklin Journal published by Elsevier Press. |
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| Dr.
Kathy Frame (Assistant Professor, Nursing)
gave a poster/paper presentation; "Testing the
Utility of the Frame Model of Preadolescent Empowerment
and the Effectiveness of a School-Nurse Facilitated
Support Group" at the Annual Convention of the
Roy Adaptation Society in Maine. |
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| Dr.
Janet Golden (Associate Professor, History)
recently served as historical consultant at the McCord
Museum in Montreal where an exhibit on the history of
childhood in Montreal is set to open in October 2004.
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| Dr.
Golden chaired a session on "Juvenile
Delinquency and Sexual Policing in the United States"
at the meeting of the Society for the History of Children
and Youth in June. |
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| Dr.
Marmorstein presented a poster, "Longitudinal
Relationships Between Depression and Eating Attitudes:
A Community-Based Study" at the American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting in
Miami, Florida in October. |
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| Dr.
John Wall presented a paper, “The Christian
Ethics of Children: Emerging Questions and Possibilities”
at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion
in November. |
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| Summer
2003 |
| J.T.
Barbarese (assistant professor, CCAS-English)
discussed "Harry Potter:
Good Literature or Just Good Fun?" during
the monthly Rutgers-Camden Cappuccino Academy, Wednesday,
July 9. 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Route 70,
Mount Laurel. This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Joseph Barbarese was also interviewed on
MSNBC (6/20/03) to discuss the Harry
Potter Madness surrounding the fifth Harry
Potter book.
To view this interview, click on Real
Player or
Windows
Media Player
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| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner (Distinguished Professor,
Anthropology and director, Center for Children and Childhood
Studies) delivered a presentation, "What Do I Say,
What Do I Do: Communication and Interventions with Children
at the End of Life," during the Conference on End-Of-Life
at Duke University in May. During the same month, she
delivered two talks at the Yale University Institution
for Social and Policy Studies: "Choiceless Choices:
Decision Making for Children with Cancer When Cure is
Not Likely" and "Talking to Children about
Death." |
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| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner (Distinguished Professor,
Anthropology) presented, "Chronically and Terminally
Ill Children's Participation in Clinical Trials: The
Problem of Assent," at the Institute of Medicine
in Washington, DC in July. |
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| Dr.
Jane Siegel (Associate Professor, Criminal
Justice) presented, “Violence in the Lives of
At-Risk Youth: The Case of Offenders’ Children”
at the International Family Violence Research Conference
in Portsmouth, NH in July. |
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Dr.
Kathy Frame (Assistant Professor, Nursing)
presented, “Meeting the Challenges, Finding
the Joys: School Nursing Strategies for Children with
ADHD" at the National Association of School Nurses
Annual Convention in June.
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| Dr.
Kathy Frame also presented “Substance
Abuse in School-Aged Populations” at the National
Association of School Nurses Regional Symposium in July. |
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| Dr.
Holly Blackford presented “The White
Child's Gaze upon the Drama of African-American Manhood:
Positioning The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To
Kill A Mockingbird in Trajectories of American Literature
and Narrative Theory,” at the Children's Literature
Association, El Paso, Texas and at the Society for the
History of Childhood and Youth, Baltimore, MD in June.
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| Dr.
Cindy Dell Clark (Assistant Professor Human
Development and Family Studies -Penn State) chaired
a panel and delivered a paper at the Jean Piaget Society
meetings in Chicago in June. The topic was "The
Therapeutic Value of Play." |
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| Dr.
Charlotte Markey (Assistant Professor, Psychology)
and Dr. Patrick Markey (Visiting Professor, Psychology)
presented a paper, "Pubertal Development and Personality
as Predictors of Preadolescent Girls' Health: Developmental
Trends,” at the biannual meeting of the Society
for Research in Child Development, held in Tampa. |
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| Dr.
Charlotte Markey co-presented the paper, “A
Longitudinal Investigation of Youths’ Anticipation
and Initiation of Risky Behaviors” at the biannual
meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. |
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| Dr.
Naomi Marmorstein (Assistant Professor, Psychology)
presented "Psychiatric Disorders in Partners of
Depressed Mothers: Association with Offspring Disorders”
at the International Society for Research on Child and
Adolescent Psychopathology meeting in Sydney, Australia
in June. |
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| Dr.
Joseph Barbarese (Assistant Professor, English)
co-edited, with Daniel J. O'Hara, a special issue of
The Journal of Modern Literature, titled "Writers
on Writers: Contemporary Authors Read Their Favorite
Predecessors." |
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Publications
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| January 25, 2005 |
We
are proud to announce that the Rutgers
University Press has published its
fifth book in the Childhood Studies series, Armies
of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism,
by David
M. Rosen, Professor
of Anthropology and Law at Fairleigh Dickinson
University and member of the Center for Children
and Childhood Studies Regional Seminar Series.
Children
have served as soldiers throughout history. The
question is are they aggressors? Or are they
victims? It is a difficult question with no obvious
answer, yet in recent years the acceptable answer
among humanitarian organizations and contemporary
scholars has been resoundingly
the latter. These children are most often seen
as especially hideous examples of adult criminal
exploitation.
In this provocative book, David M. Rosen argues that this response vastly oversimplifies
the child soldier problem. Drawing on three dramatic examples-from Sierra Leone,
Palestine, and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust-Rosen vividly illustrates
this controversial view. In each case, he shows that children are not always
passive victims, but often make the rational decision that not fighting is worse
than fighting.
With a critical eye to international law, Armies of
the Young urges readers
to reconsider the situation of child combatants in light
of circumstance and history before adopting uninformed
child protectionist views. In the process, Rosen paints
a memorable and unsettling picture of the role of children
in international conflicts.
For more information please visit, http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Armies_of_the_Young_2296.html
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June
1, 2004. The
Hardcover edition of Janet Golden's
forthcoming book,
Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome will be released from Harvard University
Press in January 2005.
>>> more
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| Dr.
Catie Coe (Assistant Professor, Anthropology)
recently published, “Education: Folklore and Schooling
in Africa,” in African Folklore: An Encyclopedia,
New York: Routledge. |
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| Dr.
Ted Goertzel (Professor, Sociology) authored
a chapter, "September 11, 2001: A Turning Point
for America's Future?" in the book In the Shadow
of War (Chelsea House, 2004). The book is intended
for use in high schools. |
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| Dr.
John Wall (Assistant Professor, Religion) recently
published, "The Christian Ethics of Children: Emerging
Questions and Possibilities" in the Journal
of Lutheran Ethics, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2004. |
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| Dr.
Wall also recently published "Let the
Little Children Come: Child Rearing as Challenge to
Moral Thought" in Horizons, Vol. 31, Issue
1, 2004. |
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| Dr.
Joseph Barbarese (Assistant Professor, English)
contributed the Afterword for Penguin's reprint of Louisa
May Alcott's Little Men. |
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| May
2004 |
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2004 |
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| January
27, 2004 |
|  Another
forthcoming book in RU-Childhood Studies Series
Girlhood on the Edge: Gender, Adolescence,
and the Law
by Laurie Schaffner
Publication Date: TBA
In Girlhood on the Edge, sociologist Laurie Schaffner
takes us inside the detention center and explores
the worlds of incarcerated girls. Focusing on the
lived experience of violence and the criminal justice
system, Schaffner explores three central questions.
How have changing social norms of sexuality and emotional
expression changed adolescent girls' transgressive
strategies? What do authority, consent, and choice
mean to young urban women in trouble? How do contemporary
young women experience and make meaning of violent
episodes in their lives?
Laurie
Schaffner is an assistant professor in the
criminal justice and sociology department of the University
of Illinois at Chicago. Her previous books include
Teenage Runaways: Broken Hearts and "Bad Attitudes".
For more information about the RU-Book Series in Childhood
Studies, please visit http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/RU-book_series.htm
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| January
18, 2004 |
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New
Book published by Rutgers
University Book Series in Childhood Studies: Rethinking
Childhood by Peter B. Pufall and Richard
P. Unsworth, eds. (2004) -
Being a child in American society can be problematic.
Twenty percent of American children live in poverty,
parents are divorcing at high rates, and educational
institutions are not always fulfilling their goals. |
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| Fall
2003 |
| Dr.
Jane Siegel (Assistant Professor, Criminal
Justice) co-authored an article, "The Impact of
Complex Trauma and Depression on Parenting: An Exploration
of Mediating Risk and Protective Factors," to be
published in the Journal Child Maltreatment. |
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| Fall
2003 |
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Rutgers
University Press announces publication of its
third book in its Childhood Studies Series: At
Play in Belfast: Children’s Folklore and Identities
in Northern Ireland written by Donna M. Lanclos.
>>> more |
|
 Dr.
Ted Goertzel (Professor, Sociology) co-authored
the second edition of Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods
of More than Four Hundred Famous Men and Women
(Great Potential Press, Inc. 2003). The chapters about
childhoods try to reveal some common elements of the
childhood experiences of eminent adults. More information
about the book can be found online at: http://www.giftedpsychologypress.com/upcoming.html |
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Carol
Singley (Associate Professor, English)
and Caroline Levander, editors, recently published The
American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader
with Rutgers
University Press, 2003. >>> more |
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| First
Two Books in Rutgers University
Press Childhood Studies Series were published
in 2003. >>>
more |
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Amanda
Lewis’
Race in the School Yard: Negotiating the Color Line
in Classrooms and Communities
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| Dr.
Carol Singley
(Associate Professor, English) authored a chapter, “Building
a Family, Building a Nation: Adoption in Nineteenth
Century Children’s Literature” in the book
Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives
(University of Michigan Press, 2002). |
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| Dr.
Joseph Barbarese (Assistant Professor, English)
co-edited, with Daniel J. O'Hara, a special issue of
The Journal of Modern Literature, titled "Writers
on Writers: Contemporary Authors Read Their Favorite
Predecessors." |
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| Dr.
Daniel Hart (associate dean and professor, CCAS-psychology)
co-authored with Nancy Southerland and Bob Atkins "Does
Health Insurance Improve Children's Lives? A Study of
New Jersey's Family Care Program" The research
was conducted under the auspices of the Center for
Children and Childhood Studies, and was supported
by a generous grant from the Johnson & Johnson Companies.
This report is available in PDF: http://camden-nt1.rutgers.edu/hart/hfcywebdocument.PDF
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EDUCATION
NEWS
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| Dec
15, 2003 |
Literacy
campaign yields results - Camden childhood studies program
combines scholarship and outreach
Dr. Myra Bluebond-Langner (Distinguished Professor and
Center Director) and the Camden
Campaign for Children's Literacy was highlighted
in the Rutgers
Focus. >>> read
the full online article |
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| 09/01/03 |
| The
new Center for Children and Childhood Studies
Lecture Series, "Remembering
Childhood: Meet the Authors, Hear Their Stories,"
brings distinguished authors to the Rutgers-Camden campus
to share their insights and to discuss their views of
childhood as reflected in their work. This public lecture
series is also part of the Instructional Workshop
for Teachers provided by the RU-Camden College
of Arts and Sciences. CE credits are provided form the
NJ Department of Education, Professional Development
Program. >>> more |
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| Summer
2003 |
| Noreen
Scott Garrity (Curator of Arts Education and
Outreach) in conjunction with Rutgers Summer Instructional
Teacher Training Workshops for teachers presented, “Immigration
& Ethnicity,” “Women's Suffrage &
Suffragists,” and “The Sense of Place in
Walt Whitman & Edgar Allen Poe.” The workshop
focused on integrating the visual & performing arts
into curriculum. |
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| 06/01/03 |
| Curriculum
Development in Childhood Studies. Rutgers-Camden
faculty develop curriculum in childhood
studies with the support of Rutgers University Dialogue
Grants. >>> more |
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|  Dr.
Holly Blackford featured in LIVE
WEBCAST to share her insights on the challenges
of teaching an online children's literature course.
She emphasizes that a unique set of pedagogical challenges
apply to online humanities courses.
Based on her recent experience with a Web-based literature
class, Holly Blackford (Rutgers University) was featured
in a
webcast where she suggested ways to promote greater
communication, collaboration, and continuity in the
e-learning process.
Log onto the webcast, The
Challenges of Teaching an Online Children's Literacy
Course and/or read her related article on the
topic of teaching online courses at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=971
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SERVICE
AND OUTREACH PROGRAM REPORTS
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| June
2004 |
| Dr.
Bill Whitlow (psychology) represented CCCS
through his AMULET program at the San Juan Bautista
Health/Family and Culture Day (Saturday, June 12) at
Dudley Grange in East Camden. He demonstrated Lead Chek
ampules for testing for the presence of lead in residences.
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| March
2004 |
"The
Cat in the Hat" Visits
Camden
A
rainy day.. did not keep away.. The Cat in the Hat ...
for Dr. Seuss' Birthday! Lamont Dixon, aka "The
Cat in the Hat" (aka Lamont Dixon) came to the
Camden Free City Library to bring smiles to a well attended
audience.
>>> more |
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| Fall
2003 |
| The
Camden Campaign for Children’s Literacy’s
Camden Childcare Directors'
Retreat: Networking at Its Best >>> more |
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| 09/08/03 |
The
Camden Campaign for Children’s Literacy’s
launched a new initiative, the Child Development Associate
Certification Program (CDA). >>> more
>>>
brochures for Infant
Toddler CDA and Pre-School
CDA
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| 09/01/03 |
| The
Rutgers-Camden STARR Program took Camden
teens to a summer camp in Vermont, went hiking in the
White Mountains, and canoeing in the Pinelands >>>
more
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| 08/01/03 |
| CCCL
Program Update: Storyteller Oni Lasana and
"Mrs. Chuckleberry" entertained Camden children
at the Camden Free Library >>> more |
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| 6/14/03 |
| The
SPARC Program hosted a workshop for teachers.
Participants got "hands-on" learning of computer
skills and laboratory methods. >>> more |
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| 05/03/03 |
| The
Camden Campaign for Children's Literacy was
recognized as an Outstanding
Community Program by Literacy Volunteers
of America (LVA) at their Camden County Chapter’s
18th Annual Recognition Day. >>> more |
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| 01/15/03 |
The
annual