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CCCS
in the News |
| Rutgers-Camden Researchers Trace Evolution of Children's TV |
“Children who grew up during the 1950s and 1960s had with their television friends a strong, emotional bond that doesn’t exist today,” says Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, a reference librarian at the Paul Robeson Library on the Rutgers–Camden campus.
Read the full article at http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-camden-researchers-trace-evolution-childrens-tv. |
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| Philadelphia Tribune |
Dr. Dan Cook (associate professor, CFAS-childhood studies) offered expert perspective on matters related to child labor during an interview that appeared in the Philadelphia Tribune, the nation’s oldest African American newspaper.
Read the full article at http://www.blackvoicenews.com/news/news-wire/47185-gingrichs-idea-exploits-stereotypes.html. |
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| WHYY-FM 90.9 |
Dr. Dan Cook (associate professor, CFAS-childhood studies) offered expert perspective on children as consumers during an interview that appeared in a news broadcast about holiday shopping.
View the transcript at http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/30310-23lftoys.
Dr. Cook was also featured on WHYY with the article: “Rumored South Jersey university merger could drive away scholars and dollars.”
View the article at http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/speak-easy-archive/item/30070-rumored-south-jersey-university-merger-could-drive-away-scholars-and-dollars. |
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| Incubator Board Walk Exhibit with Audio Slide Show |
| Dr. Janet Golden (professor, CFAS-history) discussed the history of baby incubators on the boardwalk during an interview that appeared in a media presentation in the “Executive Insight” section of this website for health-care professionals. View the slide show at http://healthcare-executive-insight.advanceweb.com/Multimedia/Photo-Gallery/Incubator-Boardwalk-Exhibit.aspx. |
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| Haddonfield Patch |
| A news story about a donation by Drs. Margaret Marsh (University Professor of History) and Howard Gillette (professor emeritus, CFAS-history) to establish a research fund for PhD students in the childhood studies program appeared in this local online news hub. Placed by the communications office. View the article at http://haddonfield.patch.com/articles/haddonfield-residents-create-fund-to-support-doctoral-student-research. |
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| Rutgers-Camden Takes Global Approach to Childhood Studies |
Childhood studies students at Rutgers–Camden are striving to raise awareness of a global population whose distinctive experiences are often ignored or poorly understood.
“Children don’t always get a voice in our adult world,” says Neeta Goel, a childhood studies PhD student at Rutgers–Camden. “Childhood studies help us focus on a vulnerable part of our society. There are all sorts of issues impacting children and our program turns the lens specifically on these kids and considers them as central characters with a story to tell.” >>> Read the full article:
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2011/11/rutgers-camden-takes-20111121 |
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| Retired Prosecutor Pursues Ph.D. in Childhood Studies looks for ways to curb gun violence |
After a 25-year career in the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, Diane Marano is pursuing her Ph.D. in childhood studies at Rutgers–Camden. Inspired by her work as an assistant prosecutor, she is committed to helping young people achieve better outcomes in life. >>> Read the full article:
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2011/11/retired-prosecutor-p-20111121 |
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| Dr. CATI COE (associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) gave a talk in September on "Child Fostering in Ghanaian Immigrant Families: A Measure of Child Well-being in the United States" for the Young Children of Black Immigrants project at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. |
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| Dr. JANET GOLDEN (professor, CFAS-history) delivered an invited presentation, “Babies Made Us Modern,” at the Centre for the Study of Science Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK. She also gave an invited address, “The Many Sciences of Parenting,” at the opening keynote session at the conference on “Monitoring Parents” at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK; a discussion of the conference and her presentation appears at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/essays/article/11088. She co-authored an article, “Fat Chance: What if an Overweight Woman Ran for Office?,” that appeared on the website Women’s Voices for Change; view the article at http://womensvoicesforchange.org/fat-chance-what-if-an-overweight-woman-ran-for-office.htm. |
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| Patrick Cox, a student in the PhD program for childhood studies, discussed his research during three interviews on this blog examining the intersection of children and literature. View the blog entries at http://dotmomming.blogspot.com. |
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| Dr. Cindy Dell Clark (visiting associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) shared her research into children and play during an interview that appeared in a lengthy feature story. View the article (shown on the USA Today website) at http://yourlife.usatoday.com/parenting-family/story/2011/08/Advocates-Importance-of-play-time-for-children-neglected/50071878/1. |
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Research conducted by Martin Woodside, a graduate student in the childhood studies PhD program, was featured in a news story in the Gloucester County Times, titled "Rutgers-Camden student compiles anthology of Romanian poetry."
>>>read the full article |
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Dr. Jane Siegel (associate professor, CFAS-criminal justice) discussed her new book about the children of incarcerated parents during an interview that appeared on “News Works Tonight.” The audio file of the broadcast is available at http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/nwt-full-shows/item/19766-nwt-full-show-june-22-2011. |
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A regional forum, called Giving Voice to the Silent:
Children and Families of the Incarcerated, took place at Rutgers-Camden on June 23rd. Elizabeth Fiedler talks with Rutgers-Camden criminologist Jane Siegel about how prisoners and children cope with incarceration in a follow-up program on WHYY.
>>> listen to the whole show on WHYY Radio
>>> read the Philadelphia article on the conference |
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Dr. Carol Singley (professor, CFAS-English) is the author of a new book, Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature (Oxford University Press). >>> more information |
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| Dr. Dan Cook (associate professor, CFAS-childhood studies) offered his research insight into “princess culture” during an interview that appeared in a news story about the interest in Britain’s royal wedding. >>> Read the article |
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Dr. Charles Watters gave an interview at the New School in New York on his research on the social and structural issues surrounding migrant children coming via North Africa to Europe. He also examines the role of individual agency in seeking a better life abroad.>>> View the video (5:57 min) |
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| Dr. Janet Golden (professor, CFAS-history) authored an opinion article about the public policy benefits of breast feeding for infants. View the article at http://www.hnn.us/articles/137038.html. |
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Dr. Robert Atkins (assistant professor, CFAS-nursing) and Dr. Daniel Hart (professor II, CFAS-psychology) were interviewed live on “Radio Times,” where they discussed their research into the possibility of allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. The transcript is available at http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/03/09/should-16-and-17-year-olds-be-able-to-vote. |
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| A Rutgers–Camden Cappuccino Academy lecture by Dr. Cindy Dell Clark (visiting associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) was spotlighted as a feature story in which Dell Clark discussed her research. Placed by the communications office. View the article at http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/26/2011/february/28/children-learn-to-express-selves.html. |
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Dr. Cati Coe (associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) delivered a talk on “What a Minor Needs: The Differing Conceptions of US Family Reunification Law and Ghanaian Labor Migrants” as part of a panel on “Children, Migration, and the State” for the American Anthropological Association's Children's Interest Group conference, held in Charleston, SC, in February. She also published an article, “What is the Impact of Transnational Migration on Family Life? Women’s Comparisons of Internal and International Migration in a Small Town in Ghana,” in the journal American Ethnologist. Dr. Coe is one of five editors for the book Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective (Vanderbilt University Press, 2011), which came out of a workshop organized by the Working Group on Children and Migration and funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She also contributed a chapter, titled "How Children Feel about Their Parents' Migration: A History of the Reciprocity of Care in Ghana." |
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| Dr. Dan Cook (associate professor, CFAS-childhood studies) delivered a keynote talk, “Examining the ‘Culture’ in Children’s Commercial Culture,” at the Children and Cultures (Enfance et Cultures) conference co-sponsored by the Association for French Speaking Sociologists and the French Ministry of Culture in Paris in December. |
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| Dr. Cindy Dell Clark (visiting associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) discussed “Communicating with Kids: Amazing, Sweet, Cool, Good Guidance from Research” on Thursday, Feb. 24 at Barnes & Noble in Marlton, as part of the Rutgers–Camden Cappuccino Academy series. |
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| Noreen Scott Garrity (deputy director and curator of education, CFAS-Center for the Arts) received the Hometown Hero Award from the Campbell Soup Company in January. In presenting this annual honor, Campbell Soup applauded Scott Garrity’s commitment to community-based arts and art education. More information about the award is available at http://investor.campbellsoupcompany.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=88650&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1517756&highlight. |
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Dr. Charlotte Markey (associate professor, CFAS-psychology) discussed the need for greater awareness of eating disorders in a news story that examined the work that she and a team of students are doing to promote that awareness.
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Slang in Children's Literature?
Dr. Joseph Barbarese (associate professor, CFAS-English) discussed the hot issue of slang in children’s books during a live interview on “The Ten O’Clock News.”
>>> View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwT_ATXTcuk. |
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New Book by Rutgers Researcher Aims to Amplify What Kids Have to Say
Want to capture the attention of a child? A Rutgers-Camden researcher says educators and parents could learn from the corporate world, which has long valued kids’ input.
Cindy Dell Clark, a visiting associate professor of anthropology, published a new book on her research with children. >>> Read more
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| Dr. Daniel Cook Interviewed On Lawsuit
Against
McDonald's
Dr. Daniel Cook (prof, Childhood Studies) was interviewed on abc NEWS. The program reported that a food industry watchdog group is threatening to take McDonald's to court over its practice of including toys with Happy Meals. Dan Cook, who studies the effects of advertisement on kids, alerted the audience that children are bombarded with more advertising as never before. According to Dr. Cook, the toy -not the food- brings children back to McDonald's.
>>> Watch the video with Dr. Cook and read the article |
Dr. Cati
Coe (associate professor, CFAS-sociology)
has published a chapter, "Domestic Violence and
Child Circulation in the Southeastern Gold Coast,
1905-1928,” in the edited collection Domestic
Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial
Africa (Ohio University Press). She
also delivered an invited talk, "Children's (Im)mobilities:
The Effects of Transnational Migration on Children's
Circulation in Ghanaian Households," at the Drexel
University Center for Mobilities Research and Policy.
Dr. Cindy Dell Clarke (visiting
associate professor, CFAS-sociology) has authored
a new book, In A Younger Voice: Doing
Child-Centered Qualitative Research (Oxford
University Press).
More information about the book is online at http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Social/?view=usa&ci=9780195376593
Baby Books
Become Research Resource. The extensive
1,300-volume collection of Baby books at UCLA spans
138 years of history, and represents the only one
of its kind. It is particularly valuable because
of its large scale, and researchers from across
the country often frequent it... “It
just keeps growing, and I just have to keep going
back,” said Janet Golden, a
Rutgers University professor who is writing a
medical history of babies under the age of 1. Golden,
who often flies to UCLA to visit the collection,
said she discovered much about the changing social
norms throughout history while doing her research.
>>> read
the full article |
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Migrant
Children Displaced by Poverty and War
Over
the last two decades, unprecedented numbers of
refugee children have fled their countries, seeking
asylum from poverty and conflict. Some find a better
life. Others disappear. Dr.
Charles Watters,
a professor of childhood studies at Rutgers–Camden,
says refugee children are a global issue.... “We’re
looking at millions of children around the world
who are displaced.”
>>> read the full article |
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Newly
Formed History of Childhood Journal Nominated for
Major Award
Still in its infancy, the Journal of
the History of Childhood and Youth is already
receiving accolades. The publication devoted
to the historical experiences of children and
young people throughout the ages and from all
over the world benefits from the knowledge of
a scholar at Rutgers–Camden,
the home of the nation’s first PhD program
in the emerging discipline. Dr. Susan
Miller, an assistant professor of
childhood studies in Camden, serves as book review
editor for the journal founded by the Society for
the History of Children and Youth in 2008.
>>> read
the full article |
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How
the Haunted Holiday Dulled its Horror Edge
For scholars studying American childhood, there’s
much to be learned by examining how families observe
those special days, like birthdays and Halloween.
According to Dr.
Dan Cook, a childhood studies scholar
at Rutgers-Camden, these
special days, much like Christmas, give children
an opportunity to express their wishes with many
parents actively encouraging them to do so....
Halloween has dulled its horror edge as many costumes
are little more than extensions of already established
toy lines or television shows which children don
most any day of the year. So if a plethora of princesses
and superheroes knock on your door this October 31,
you’ll know why.
>>> read the full article |
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How
Childhood Studies Influence Moral Thinking
In
his new book, Ethics in Light of Childhood (Georgetown
University Press, 2010), Dr.
John Wall, a CCCS associate and associate
professor of philosophy and religion at Rutgers–Camden,
says viewing moral issues from a child’s perspective
could change ethical thinking. “The experiences
of children need to become new lenses for interpreting
what it means to exist, to live good lives, and to form
communities – for
the sake of children and adults both,” Wall writes
in the book’s introduction.
>>> read
the full article |
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| October 11, 2010 |
| Dr.
Myra Bluebond-Langner named Board of Governors Professor |
Dr.
Bluebond-Langner, founder of the Center for Children
and Childhood Studies, was named
Board of Governors Professor of Anthropology on October
7th. Chancellor Pritchett in his congratulatory note
to Prof. Bluebond-Langner praises her many achievements: "Myra’s
research into the worlds of children confronted with
life-threatening illness has helped to define a field
of study, rightly earning such accolades as the Margaret
Mead Award. Her books The Private Worlds
of Dying Children and In the Shadow of Illness: Parents
and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child (both
with Princeton University Press) are widely cited,
and her editorship of the Rutgers University Press
Book Series in Childhood Studies is extending the body
of knowledge in this growing field. .... Currently,
Myra is serving as the UK’s
first chair of pediatric palliative care at the University
College London Institute of Child Health and Great
Ormond Street Hospital. She’s on leave
executing that role, and we look forward to her return
to campus.
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>>> read the complete statement by Dr. Wendell Pritchett |
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| July
12, 2010 |
| Welcome
Tammy Hunt, Rutgers-Camden Future Scholar
Coordinator |
| Please welcome Tamyra
(Tammy) Hunt, the new Program Coordinator for
the Future
Scholars Program at Rutgers-Camden.
She works under the supervision of Administrative
Director for the Center of Children and Childhood
Studies, Nyeema Watson. Tammy graduated from Seton
Hall University with a BS in Marketing and Psychology
and from Lesley University with a MS Ed with a focus
on curriculum and out of school time development.
Prior to joining Rutgers, Tammy worked for Merrill
Lynch as an analyst in their advertising group. Identifying
an opportunity to get more involved in the community,
Tammy volunteered her time to lead and redesign a
pre college initiative for 50 business-minded
students in Ewing and Trenton, NJ called Merrill
Lynch Career Academy. Following her passion, Tammy
shifted career paths and left Merrill Lynch to join
Citizen Schools where she launched the first year
of the extended learning time program at First Avenue
School in Newark, NJ. In the first year she supported
all academic and curriculum development for the campus
and concluded her service by spearheading Citizen
Schools New Jersey’s
first Pre-High School program in which over 90% of
her students were accepted to and are attending high
schools with an 80% or higher college matriculation
rate. Tammy’s enthusiasm lies in successful
student transitions and will work to position the
program to support and further the University’s
goal of transitioning 500 scholars into the Rutgers
University community. |
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| June
2010 |
| Susquehanna Bank Provides
Support for Camden Kids in Rutgers Future Scholars
Program |
| Thanks
to a $61,758 investment from Susquehanna Bank to
the Rutgers Future Scholars program, approximately
100 Camden children in grades 8 and 9 are preparing
for success in college now. Launched in June 2008,
the Rutgers Future Scholars program enrolls 50 rising
eighth-grade students in the Camden public school
system and the LEAP University Academy Charter School
each summer. The multi-pronged Rutgers initiative
works to prepare the participants for college by
providing the teens with academic and social development
support throughout their secondary school careers
and tuition support at Rutgers upon graduation from
high school and admittance to Rutgers. |
| >>> read the full press
release |
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| June
21,
2010 |
| Rutgers-Camden
CS Students Named
Co-Recipients of the David K. Sengstack Endowed
Graduate Fellowship |
The Department of
Childhood Studies at Rutgers University is delighted
to announce that Patrick
Cox and Anandini
Dar have
been named as the co-recipients of the David
K. Sengstack Endowed Graduate Fellowship for AY 2010-2011.
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| April
6,
2010 |
| Schumann Fund for New Jersey Renews Funding
for PDPI |
The
Schumann Fund for New Jersey has awarded the Center
for Children and Childhood Studies a grant in the amount
of $70,000 for its continued work with "The
Professional Development Pathways Initiative for Early
Childhood Educators".
This is a two-year grant that will support the Infant/Toddler
Mental Health Program, the Early Childhood Administrator
Credential and our College "bridging" program for
returning students transitioning into Early Childhood
Education.
For more information, please contact Angela
Connor |
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| Feb
15, 2010 |
| RU-CCCS Offers new P-3 Teaching Endorsement Program |
Rutgers-Camden continues to lead the way in professional
preparation on behalf of educators of children ages
birth to eight with the addition of both the traditional
and alternate route P-3 endorsements. The new programs
reflect the most recent pedagogical advances in the
field emphasizing state and national standards and
research based practice to improve student learning.
Central to the Rutgers-Camden program is preparing
endorsement candidates to use empirically-based practice
and scientifically valid research on teaching and
learning. The theory, concepts and applications of
measuring development and learning is interwoven
throughout the required coursework as a fundamental
aspect of improving teacher quality preparation.
The Rutgers-Camden Early Childhood Education program
and P-3 endorsements are designed and facilitated
through a unique partnership between the Center for
Children and Childhood Studies, the Department of
Childhood Studies and Camden County College and the
Teacher Preparation Program. Students and endorsement
candidates engage in a holistic approach to education
grounded in developmentally appropriate practice
with child development at the core of pedagogical
decisions. Field experience and student teaching
occur at both the preschool and primary level, with
a required urban based practicum fundamental to the
populations that Abbott P-3 teachers serve.
For more information, please contact Angela Connor
or Ingrid Campbell at 856-225-6739 or ibconnor@camden.rutgers.edu or ingridc@camden.rutgers.edu. |
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| Oct 26, 2009 |
Urban Youth Symposium
November 20, 2009 @ Rutgers–Camden
Campus
Sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of the Chancellor.
The Urban
Youth Symposium will bring together a diverse group of scholars
and practitioners to engage in roundtable discussions about the topic of urban
youth today. Unlike traditional academic conferences, this symposium will unite
many different voices as a means to engage in intellectual conversation about
issues affecting minority young people in urban places. The symposium will
highlight the work being done on campus and in our community and set that work
within a larger context of practitioners, writers, activists, theorists, and
academics. Rutgers–Camden’s own Future
Scholars will participate in this event.
The symposium will be held on the Rutgers–Camden Campus and is FREE and
open to the public. Please join us by registering online.
For more information, please contact Lynne
Vallone, chair of the Department of Childhood Studies. |
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| August
24, 2009 |
| Childhood
Studies Department NEWS |
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| Special
Childhood Studies Seminar (Fall 2009) |
Prof.
Barrie Thorne, U-C Berkeley,
will be the special guest of the Department
of Childhood Studies on September 30 and
October 1. A public talk entitled “Social
Class Inequality and Children's Experiences and Management
of Family Shame,” will take place on September
30, at 4:30 in the 4th Floor Lounge of Law School.
A reception will follow at the Stedman Gallery at 6pm.
We expect that Dr. Thorne will speak in one of our
classes and will make herself available to meet with
students.
>>> click
here to download a flier (pdf)
Barrie Thorne is a pioneer of women’s studies
and of childhood studies and is an early supporter
of our program. Please see http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/barrie.html for
some information about her. |
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| Aug
23, 2009 |
| Deborah
S. Valentine wins
David K. Sengstack Endowed Graduate Fellowship |
Deborah
S. Valentine (B.A. Wheaton College, IL; M.A.
Wheaton College, IL), second-year doctoral student
in the Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden,
has been selected as the first recipient of the
David K. Sengstack Endowed Graduate Fellowship. >>> more  |
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| April
9, 2009 |
| Special
Research Seminar (RU- Department of Childhood
Studies) |
Please join us
for a special Childhood Studies Research Seminar
featuring
Dr. Sarada Balagopalan, Associate Fellow,
Centre For The Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi,
India.
Date: April
17th, 2009
Title of Presentation: “On
Global Threads and Local Sutures: Street Children
and the Politics of Translating Rights in Calcutta,
India”
Place: Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor, Armitage Hall
Time: Free period
Refreshments will
be served. All are welcome.
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more |
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| Spring
2009 Speaker Series "On
the Rights of Children" |
All
presentations will be held from 4:30 to 6:00
pm
and all are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Locations for March and April events will be announced.
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In recognition
of the 20th anniversary
of the United Nations Convention on the Rights
of the Child and the 60th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the Center
for Children and Childhood Studies together
with the Department
of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice and
the Rutgers
University School of Law is sponsoring
a series of speakers and panel sessions focusing
on several aspects of children’s rights. >>> more
> download flier (pdf) |
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Prof.
Daniel Cook (Childhood
Studies), "Children's
Food and the Provisioning of Meaning:
Commerce, Care and Maternal Practice"
2008-2009 Liberal Studies Colloquium
Series
“You are What You Eat: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Food”
All colloquium events take place from 4:30 - 6:00 pm in
the Faculty Lounge on the 3rd floor of Armitage Hall on the
Rutgers-Camden campus. They are free and open to all.
>>> more
information about this lecture series |
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| June
20, 2008 |
| Rutgers—Camden
announces new track for early childhood education |
Starting this fall, a new
program at Rutgers University—Camden
will provide participating early childhood
education professionals with the skills and
concepts necessary to maximize the potential
of those precious first days for infants and
young children.
To learn more
about this
new
Professional
Development Pathways Initiative
come to the
The Early Childhood
Education track is offered in
partnership between Camden County College’s Human Services/Early
Childhood Education program and Rutgers
—Camden childhood studies program, which
launched the nation’s first doctoral
program in this burgeoning field in 2007.
>>> read
the press release >>>
read Rutgers News Release
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| March
31, 2008 |
RU-CCCS
TO OFFER
INFANT/TODDLER CREDENTAL -
FALL 08 |
The
Rutgers Camden Center for Children
and Childhood Studies will offer the New
Jersey State Infant Toddler Credential starting
in the Fall of 2008. Credentialing
coursework will be available for both
credit and non-credit options at the
Rutgers-Camden campus, as well as additional
southern region satellite sites. The
NJ Infant/Toddler Credential represents
a significant professional advancement
opportunity for infant and toddler
professionals and para-professionals.
The credential is designed to enhance
individual knowledge, skills and practice
in both center based and family early
childhood education programs. The official
launch of the credential was sponsored
by the Coalition of Infant Toddler
Educators (CITE) and the Professional
Impact New Jersey (PINJ) at CITE’s
March 08 conference. |
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more information or to reserve your space
for the fall, please contact Angela
Connor or Ingrid
Campbell at (856) 225-6739. |
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Hope
You Didn't Miss This: |
| Apr
8, 2008 |
Rutgers-Camden
doctoral student, Filipino poet, at Barnes & Noble
Tuesday,
April 8, 2008 at 6:30pm |
| During
National Poetry Month, Lara Saguisag, a Rutgers-Camden
CS PhD student and poet read from her recently published
book “Children of Two Seasons: Poems for Young
People,” during Rutgers-Camden’s Cappuccino
Academy at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8.
Saguisag’s free reading was held at Barnes & Noble,
located at 200 West Route 70 in Marlton. > about
Lara |
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| Mar
5, 2008 |
2008
CCCS Speaker Series
Piercing the Myths: Girls, Aggression and Violence |
Girls
are becoming increasingly more involved in violent
activities, shattering stereotypes of girls as “sugar
and spice and everything nice.” The speakers
in this series explored girls’ involvement
in violent and aggressive activities and discussed
some motives behind their actions. >>> more
All
events took place from 4:30 – 6:30 pm
in the Rutgers-Camden Campus Center, Conference Room
West-ABC.
326 Penn Street
Light refreshments were served
Professional development hours available upon
request.
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| Jan
10, 2008 |
Volunteer
Opportunity
Lajee Center’s
Seventh International Work Camp |
Interested
in an unique volunteer opportunity? Live with Palestinians,
work with them, talk to them, play with them, sing
and dance with them, hear their stories, see their
reality.
Lajee
Centre International Work Camp was set up eight
years ago by a group of local volunteers to provide
the children of the Camp with constructive, educational
and enjoyable activities to help alleviate the difficult
conditions under which they live and to assist in developing
their skills, knowledge and talents. >>> more
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| June
25, 2007 |
Applications
accepted for Associate/Full Professor, Childhood
Studies |
The
Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University,
Camden, New Jersey seeks an outstanding scholar
whose research interests and projects address
the lives or contexts of children and childhood.
Disciplinary affiliation is of less importance
than the quality of candidate's research and
a demonstrated appreciation for interdisciplinary
approaches to the study of children and childhood.
The position is open until filled, but completed
applications received by October 15, 2007 will
receive fullest consideration.
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| March
5, 2007 |
New
Reference Book on Childhood Studies |
Scholarly
Resources for Children and Childhood Studies is
the title of a new book by Vibiana
Bowman (CCCS associate
and reference librarian, Robeson Library,
Rutgers-Camden)
In Scholarly
Resources for Children and Childhood Studies (Scarecrow
Press, 2007) Ms. Bowman has drawn together
contributions from some of the leading scholars
in the interdisciplinary field of children
and childhood studies (CCS).
As
the field of CCS continues to evolve in the upcoming
years, Scholarly Resources for Children and
Childhood Studies will serve as an excellent
stepping stone for those just entering the area.
Vibiana Bowman is also the editor of The
Plagiarism Plague: A Resource Guide and CD-ROM
Tutorial for Educators and Librarians.>>> more
|
|
| January
25, 2007 |
New
2007 Lecture Series in March and April:
Rethinking Childhood: Juveniles and the Justice System |
| Despite
the fact that the overall rate of juvenile crime
is declining, children are being imprisoned and confined
at alarming rates, with minority youth in particular
making up the majority of incarcerated youth around
the country. Why is this the case? This speaker’s
series seeks to shed light on the issues surrounding
juvenile incarceration and explore new ways of dealing
with youth in the justice system. >>> more |
This
series is co-sponsored by
The Rutgers University-Camden Center for Children
and Childhood Studies and
The Rutgers University School of Law Children's Justice
Clinic |
>>>
download a Description
of the Program |
| |
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| Juy
12, 2006 |
| Now
Accepting Applications for MA and PhD Programs |
The
Rutgers-Camden Childhood Studies Program is
now accepting applications for
the MA and PhD programs in
Childhood Studies. Classes will start
in the Fall 2007 semester. Childhood Studies
is the theoretical and methodological study
of children and childhood within historical,
interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, and global
contexts. The degree programs prepare
scholars capable of innovative interdisciplinary
research in childhood studies and leaders in
child-related social practice and policy.
>>> Apply
online |
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|
CCCS
NEWS
|
| |
| July
11, 2008 |
| Rutgers-Camden
Historian on Chemical Heritage
Foundation program |
Janet
Golden discusses her book, Message in a Bottle, in
a podcast
produced by the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
In the interview she describes how ideas have changed regarding advice for pregnant
women in terms of what they should and shouldn’t consume. |
| The
12 min. program is available in streaming audio or
you can download the podcast (11.6 MB mp3 file) from the CHF
website. |
|
| June
24, 2008 |
| Seeking
Faculty in Childhood Studies |
| As
part of an ongoing, multi-year effort to build its
growing program, the Department of Childhood Studies,
Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey invites applications
for as many as three faculty positions.
One position will be for an Associate or Full Professor and
the other two will be for Assistant Professors. >>> more |
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| |
| March
31, 2008 |
RU-CCCS
TO OFFER
INFANT/TODDLER CREDENTAL -
FALL 08 |
The
RuThe 12 min.
program is available in streaming audio or you can download the podcast (11.6
MB mp3 file.) tgers
Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies will offer the New
Jersey State Infant Toddler Credential starting
in the Fall of 2008. Credentialing
coursework will be available for both
credit and non-credit options at the
Rutgers-Camden campus, as well as additional
southern region satellite sites. The
NJ Infant/Toddler Credential represents
a significant professional advancement
opportunity for infant and toddler
professionals and para-professionals.
The credential is designed to enhance
individual knowledge, skills and practice
in both center based and family early
childhood education programs. The official
launch of the credential was sponsored
by the Coalition of Infant Toddler
Educators (CITE) and the Professional
Impact New Jersey (PINJ) at CITE’s
March 08 conference. |
| For
more information or to reserve your space
for the fall, please contact Angela
Connor or Ingrid
Campbell at (856) 225-6739. |
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| March
27, 2008 |
The
Schumann Fund for New Jersey Awards $100,000 to
the
Rutgers-Camden Center for Children and Childhood
Studies  |
The
grant will support RU-CCCS’ Professional
Development Pathways Initiative for Early Childhood
Education in Camden, as well as the new PK-3
Continuum Project in partnership with the Camden
City Board of Education. Both projects are under
the leadership of Angela
Connor, Senior Program Director and head of the
Early Childhood Education Division.
>>> News Release (click
on one of the logos)  |
|
| January
31, 2008 |
| Alumni
Pursue PhD's in Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden |
The
article highlights alumni who are returning to Rutgers
University to enroll in Rutgers–Camden's
doctoral program in childhood studies, the
nation's first program of its kind. Cathy Donovan
interviewed a number of students and faculty in the
program, including, Diane Marano, CLAW'78, who "recently
retired from the Camden County Prosecutor's Office
after 25 years as an assistant prosecutor and 21
years as chief of the juvenile unit. Though she was
passionate about her career, she made the transition
in order to enroll this year in Rutgers–Camden's
doctoral program in childhood studies."
>>> read
more about alumni in the PhD program at Rutgers-Camden
in the Alumni News |
|
| January
22, 2008 |
| Rutgers
Launches Childhood Studies Program |
The
Rutgers-Camden PhD program in Childhood Studies,
the first in the Nation, was featured in the Courier
Post (Jan 22, 08). The article highlights
the program and its current pool of students "who
are using their intellectual skills and affinity
for children to tackle some big problems."
>>> read
the full article online |
|
| January
20, 2008 |
| Professor
Dan Cook Discusses "Princess" Culture |
Dr.
Dan Cook, associate professor
of childhood studies at Rutgers University—Camden,
addressed the Disney princess culture and its
impact on today’s young girls during Cappuccino
Academy at Barnes & Noble in
Marlton at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan.
31.
This lecture is part of Cappuccino Academy, a monthly
series of free public lectures delivered
by members of the Rutgers-Camden community at Barnes & Noble.
For information, call (856) 225-6627.
Dr.
Cook was also recently interviewed for "Marketplace,"
(FOX
29 TV, Philadelphia, Dec 11, 2007)
about the role of targeted marketing to kids, ages
9-14, called "tween." >>> view
the streaming video
Dr.
Cook's research on "princess culture" was
highlighted in Rutgers
Focus (Feb
6, 2008). The article points
to troubling aspects of merchandizing for children,
especially girls. >>> read
the article |
|
| September
28, 2007 |
| Rutgers-Camden
English Professor Discusses Harry Potter |
Dr.
J.T. Barbarese was interviewed by Fox News on whether
the Harry Potter series increased children's reading
rates. How children handle the death of a major character
is also discussed.
>>> view
the streaming video in Real Player (3:54
min) |
|
| October
06, 2006 |
CCCS
and Barnes and Noble to Partner for Children’s
Book Week Celebration and Fundraiser |
Book
Fair Fundraiser
at Barnes and
Noble in Moorestown, NJ |
|
On Friday,
November 17th, in conjunction
with the Children's
Book Week, the
Rutgers University
Center for Children and Childhood Studies
partnered with Barnes and Noble for
a BOOK
FAIR FUNDRAISER at Barnes
and Noble in
Moorestown, NJ
from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
Kyle
Jakubowski |
The
CCCS Book Fair Fundraising event included an imaginative
11:00 a.m. storytelling performance by Lamont
Dixon as “The
Cat in the Hat,” and an exceptional
story time journey with Kyle Jakubowski beginning at
7:00 p.m. Kyle Jakubowski (see above),
Rutgers-Camden alum (CCAS 2005), and storyteller for
the Rutgers
Camden Center for the Arts performed selections
based on the stories highlighted in the exhibition, “Picture
Stories: A Celebration of African-American Illustrators” at
the Stedman Gallery, which will ran October 9 – December
2, 2006.
Lamont
Dixon (left) also captivated an audience of
preschool children at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Child
Development Center in Camden City in the afternoon.
For more information on this event, please contact
Becky Heritage at (856) 225-6739
|
|
| October
6, 2006 |
| CCCS
Co-sponsoring a Reception at the Stedman Gallery |
|
|
| September
22, 2006 |
| Rutgers
University Center for Children and Childhood Studies
Receives Major Grant from the William Penn Foundation |
Students
representing Camden city’s Early Care and
Education community arrived on the Rutgers Camden
campus this fall for the start of the third phase
of the Camden Professional Development Pathways
Initiative. This program, developed by Senior Program
Director, Angela Connor was recently awarded a
two-year grant from the William Penn Foundation.
>>> read
more  |
|
| July
11, 2006 |
| Two
New Faculty Join Childhood Studies Program |
We
are pleased to announce that Dr.
Daniel Cook and Dr.
Lynne Vallone will be joining the
Childhood Studies program. Dr. Daniel Cook is the
author of The Commodification of Childhood:
The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of
the Child Consumer and Children's Consumer
Culture (forthcoming), editor of Symbolic
Childhood and The Lived Experiences
of Public Consumption (forthcoming), and
a number of articles and chapters on children in
American culture. Dr. Cook received his Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago, and will be coming
from the University of Illinois. Dr. Lynne Vallone
is author of Disciplines of Virtue and Becoming
Victoria, and co-editor of The Norton
Anthology of Children's Literature, Virtual
Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment, and The
Girl's Own, Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American
Girl, 1830-1915. Dr. Vallone will be
coming from Texas A&M University in College
Station, Texas.
>>> Childhood
Studies Program website |
|
| May
2, 2006 |
| Concerned
Black Nurses of Newark honor Rutgers College of
Nursing Professor and RU-Camden CCCS Associate
Robert Atkins |
Bob
Atkins, Assistant Professor of
Nursing, RU-Newark received the Research
Nurse of the Year Award by
The Concerned Black Nurses of Newark at the
24th Annual Scholarship and Awards Luncheon
on Saturday, May 6th, 2006. Atkins
was being recognized for his research on the
effect of stress in the home and neighborhood
environment influence on the health and development
of children and adolescents.
>>> For more information, please visit
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/rtsu-cbn050206.php
|
|
| February
10, 2006 |
| Rutgers
to Launch Nation's First Childhood Studies Degree-Granting
Programs at its Camden Campus |
The
nation’s first doctoral
degree-granting program in childhood studies will
be launched at Rutgers University’s Camden
campus beginning fall 2007. The creation of a childhood
studies department at Rutgers-Camden, which will
award bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral
degrees, was approved by the Rutgers Board of Governors
during its meeting today on the Newark campus. The
program awaits endorsement by the New Jersey Council
of College Presidents. While a handful of undergraduate
and master’s programs in childhood studies
exist in the United States and Great Britain, the
Rutgers program will be the first to offer a doctorate
in childhood studies.
>>> read
more (Source:
Rutgers University Press Release) |
|
| January
11, 2006 |
| Don't
Miss: CCCS "Meet The Authors" series |
In
March and April 2006, CCCS brought to campus another
group of writers and authors to share their perspectives
on childhood. The new Remembering
Childhood: Meet the Authors, Hear Their Stories series
is free and open to the
public. No registration required. Some
events took place in conjunction with the 18th
annual Rutgers
Camden Writers' Conference on Saturday,
April 8, 2006.
| For
more information, directions to the campus,
and to the Camden Children's Garden, click
here to download a brochure. |
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|
| |
| May
2, 2006 |
| CCCS
Associate, Ted Goertzel, presents Keynote Address |
CCCS
Associate Dr.
Ted Goertzel (Sociology) will give a
keynote address at the Montana Association of Gifted
and Talented Education conference to be held April
27 - May 2, 2006
>>> for more information, download the Conference
Program 
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| May
5, 2006 |
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| September
14, 2005 |
| Rutgers-Camden
Launches Search for Faculty in Childhood Studies |
Rutgers
University seeks three interdisciplinary scholars
studying children for a new Program in Childhood
Studies based at its Camden Campus in the fall of
2006.
Candidates can learn more about the Campus and the
Program in Childhood Studies by contacting Dr.
Daniel Hart, who is guiding the Program through
its first year. |
|
| December
12, 2005 |
| CCCS
Professional Pathways Program funded |
| The
Schumann Fund for New Jersey has
approved a grant in the amount of $80,000 for
the Professional Pathways Childcare Training
program. The grant will partially fund the following
program components: 1) Peer Mentor Training for
Childcare Centers, 2) Infant/Toddler Credential,
3) the Development and Implementation of a Director's
Academy II, and 4) the first comprehensive CDA
Program for Family Childcare Providers in Camden
city. |
|
| August
1, 2005 |
| Camden
STARR Program Receives Grant Funds |
The
Camden STARR (Sports Teaching Athletics
Responsibility and Resiliency) Program,
administered by Dr.
Dan Hart (CCCS Director, Professor
of Psychology and Associate Dean, Rutgers-Camden
College of Arts and Sciences) and Dr.
Robert Atkins (Assistant Professor
of Nursing ) has received two grants to
support their Camden based youth program.
Drs. Hart and Atkins received $8,000 from the Campbell
Soup Foundation and Dr. Hart and
Nyeema C. Watson received $35,000 from the New
Jersey Department of Human Services.
The Camden STARR Program is working with approx.
80-100 African American, Latino, and Southeastern
Asian adolescents, to foster the development
of responsibility and resiliency in young teenagers
through sports, community service, fundraising
activities, and education.
For more information on the STARR Program please
visit http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/STARR/index.html |
|
|
| June
1, 2005 |
| The
Center Has Two New Staff Members! |
|
Please
welcome two new youth associates, Wilbert "Bill" Shively and Calvin "CJ" Lewis,
who joined the Center in April.
Bill, a student at Hatch Middle School in Camden
and CJ a student at Camden County Technical School
in Sicklerville, have come on board to assist
with various center projects and have enlightened
the office with their wit, humor and charm.
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on image to enlarge |
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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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|
CCCS
EVENTS
|
| |
| January
22, 2008 |
Research
Seminar in Childhood Studies - Spring 2008 |
All
presentations are on Wednesdays at 12:10-1:10
pm
in Armitage Hall, 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge. |
| |
| Feb 6 |
Special
Joint Event with the First Year Seminar
Department of English
Candice
Kaup (Rutgers-Camden,
English)
“What's the Harm of a Diary: Feminine
Silence in Harry Potter”
and
Peter Bryant (Rutgers-Camden,
English)
“Trauma through Form in Art Spiegelman's
Maus” |
|
| March 5 |
Bruno
Vanobbergen (Ghent University,
CS Visiting Scholar)
“Sea hospitals and the hygiene offensive:
a professionalization of the medical science
or the commodification of the weak and disabled
child?”
|
|
| April 9 |
Carol
Singley (Rutgers-Camden, English)
“Building a Nation, Building a Family:
Adoption and American Literature” |
|
| April
30 |
Tetsuji
Yamada (Rutgers-Camden, Economics)
“Healthcare Service Accessibility for Children
and Healthcare Needs for Children under the State
Children's Health Insurance Program” |
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| February
15, 2007 |
The
Center for Children and Childhood Studies
presents a CCCS Seminar with
Dr. Kathleen Jones
Dying Young: Stories from the History of American
Youth Suicide |
Tuesday,
February 27, 2007
12:20 - 1:20 pm - Lower Level, 405-407 Cooper Street
Lunch will be provided.
Dr.
Jones (Associate Professor, Department of
History, Virginia Tech University) specializes
in U.S. women’s history, history of medicine,
history of childhood and her current research
focuses on youth suicide, youth culture and the
history of psychiatry in the early twentieth
century.
Dr.
Jones is the author of Taming
the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child
Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard
University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2002)
which examines the development, in the first
half of the twentieth century, of a psychiatric
explanation of juvenile misbehavior. >>> more
|
|
| January
25, 2007 |
New
2007 Lecture Series:
Rethinking Childhood: Juveniles and the Justice System |
| Despite
the fact that the overall rate of juvenile crime
is declining, children are being imprisoned and confined
at alarming rates, with minority youth in particular
making up the majority of incarcerated youth around
the country. Why is this the case? This speaker’s
series seeks to shed light on the issues surrounding
juvenile incarceration and explore new ways of dealing
with youth in the justice system. >>> more |
This
series is co-sponsored by
The Rutgers University-Camden Center for Children
and Childhood Studies and
The Rutgers University School of Law Children's Justice
Clinic |
>>>
download a Description
of the Program |
|
| October
6, 2006 |
| CCCS
Co-sponsoring a Reception at the Stedman Gallery |
|
|
| March
30, 2006 |
| Speaker
on Child Labor Practices in East Africa on March
30th |
Let
Children be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine’s
Crusade Against Child Labor will be on display
at the Stedman Gallery from Monday,
March 13,2006 – Saturday, May 6, 2006.
Sociologist Lewis Wickes Hines (American, 1874-1940)
photography captured his concern for children,
immigrants and the working-class. The exhibition
of 55 prints offers a revealing look at child
labor practices at the onset of American industrialization
and the circumstances that poor working children
endured well into the late 1930’s.
>>>
more about
the exhibition
Reception
and Discussion –Thursday, March
30, 2006
Stedman Gallery - 5:30 pm – 7:30pm
Dr. Philip Kilbride, Professor of Anthropology at
Bryn Mawr College discussed child labor practices
in East Africa. |
| |
|
| January
11, 2006 |
CCCS "Meet
The Authors" series is planned
for Spring 2006
In
March and April 2006, CCCS will bring to campus
another group of writers and authors to share their
perspectives on childhood. The new Remembering
Childhood: Meet the Authors, Hear Their Stories series
is free and open to the public. Some events will
take place in conjunction with the 18th annual Rutgers
Camden Writers' Conference on Saturday,
April 8, 2006.
| For
more information, directions to the campus,
and to the Camden Children's Garden, click
here to download a brochure. |
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| |
| May
5, 2006 |
| Mark
your Calendar: May 5th, 2006 |
Race,
Class and Education: Gaining New Insights |
 |
This day-long
conference at the Gordon Theater at Rutgers-Camden explores
legal and social science perspectives on educational
inequality
>>> more |
Location: Gordon
Theater, Rutgers-Camden |
| |
|
| January
17 - February 25, 2006 |
Creative
Achievements: Visual Poetry
Artworks in a variety of media created by students
who have participated in the Visual Poetry program
are exhibited. Schools that have participated include
several in Camden city as well as other New Jersey
schools and after school programs. Reception: Saturday,
February 11, 2006, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
For more information, visit the RUCCA
website
|
|
| November
2, 2005 |
NICHHD
Speaker At Rutgers Camden
On Thursday, Nov. 10, from 12:15 - 1:15, Dr.
David LaRooy from the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) will
be presenting his work on child witness testimony. His
presentation, "Talking it over, and over, and
over: repeated interviews with young children," will
be held in the large conference room of Armitage, Rm.
337. Both faculty and students are invited to
attend, and refreshments will be provided. This talk
is being sponsored by the Department of Psychology. |
| |
| August
2005 |
| 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 |
|
| July
29, 2005 |
The Camden
Campaign for Children's Literacy honored
the second cohort of graduates from the Child
Development Associate (CDA) training program
at the CDA Candidates Recognition Ceremony at
Rutgers-Camden.
>>> more |
|
| 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. |
|
| 1/14/2005 |
| EXPO
2005: Camden Students Flock to Science
Fair |
The 10th
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,
came to our campus to present a variety of careers
in health science fields. |
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Publications
 |
| |
| June
1, 2008 |
| New
Journal on Adoption and Culture |
| CCCS
Associate, Dr. Carol Singley, is on
the editorial board of the new journal, Adoption
and Culture: The
Interdiscplinary Journal of the Alliance for the Study
of Adoption and Culture, ed. Emily Hipchen. The journal
is published by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption
and Culture out
of University of West Georgia. The first issue and
number just came out: 1.1 (2007). For more information,
please contact Emily Hipchen @ ehipchen@westga.edu |
|
| |
| May
13, 2008 |
| Cradles
of Eminence published in Korean |
 |
Congratulations
to Ted
Goertzel on his newest international achievement.
His co-authored book Cradles
of Eminence (2nd ed, 2004)
has been published in Korean translation. It
is available also in English in hardcover and
paperback.
CCCS associate, Ted Goertzel, wrote 6 books,
including a biography of the former president
of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso:
Reinventing Democracy in Brazil (which
was translated into Portuguese). |
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| April
2, 2008 |
| CCCS
Research with Camden Youth highlighted in Anthropology
News |
Anthropology
News Online: Children and Childhood Issue -
April AN features In Focus commentaries on challenges
and transformations in the anthropology of children
and childhood, as well as additional articles
relating to this theme.
From April 1–April 30, 2008 visit http://www.aaanet.org/publications/articles.cfm and
share your thoughts on the Anthropology News blog at http://anthropologynews.blogspot.com/.
After April 30, the series will be archived at AnthroSource and AN
Archives.
There is an article by Myra Bluebond-Langner about
the work she and Bob Atkins are doing with Camden youth
who are involved in research. |
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| |
| September
22, 2006 |
The
Rutgers University Press Book Series in Childhood
Studies, edited by Dr. Myra Bluebond Langner, has
released a new book in the series entitled, Girls
in Trouble with the Law by
Laurie Schaffner
Girls in Trouble with the Law takes us to
the heart of life for adolescent girls in secure
juvenile facilities across the United States. In
bringing the voices of court-involved young women
into the public conversation about youth crime, adolescent
sexuality, and community violence, Laurie Schaffner’s
vibrant ethnography offers new views of youth experiences
with racism, poverty, violence, and sexuality as
well as a critique of the ways gender and justice
are produced in the juvenile legal system.
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".
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Girls_in_Trouble_with_the_Law_2549.html#3645
This
is the seventh book released in the series. For
additional information on the series please visit:
http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/RU-book_series.htm |
|
| April
6, 2006 |
The
Rutgers University Press Book Series in Childhood
Studies has released a new book in the series entitled, Imagined
Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested
Citizenship in London by Lydia Murdoch.
Imagined Orphans explores the discrepancy
between the representation and reality of children’s
experiences within welfare institutions in Victorian
London. Reformers portrayed children who resided in
institutions as either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy
parents, much like Oliver Twist, the archetypal workhouse
child. Imagined Orphans demonstrates that
most institutionalized children had at least one living
parent, that parents turned to welfare services as
solutions to short-term crises rather than as permanent
depositories for children, and that many parents struggled
to maintain contact with their children during the
period of institutionalization. The book documents
the placer of the poor in Victorian welfare practices
and the contested, class-based nature of citizenship
in the late nineteenth century.
Lydia Murdoch is an assistant professor of history
at Vassar College.
To purchase this book please visit http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Imagined_Orphans_2258.html
This is the sixth book released in the series.
For additional information on the series please visit:
http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/RU-book_series.htm |
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| January
19, 2006 |
| Jon'a
Meyer, Associate Professor of Criminal
Justice and Director of the Graduate Program in
CJ, published "Unintended Consequences for
the Youngest Victims: The Role of Law in Encouraging
Neonaticide from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth
Centuries" in Criminal Justice Studies:
A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society,
Volume 18, Number 3, pages 237 - 254. |
|
| October
19, 2005 |
| We
are delighted to report that Rutgers University
Press, Childhood Studies Series book, Race
in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in
Classrooms and Communities by Amanda E. Lewis
won the Critics’ Choice Award by
the American Educational Studies Association, 2005. |
|
| October
1, 2005 |
Cati
Coe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
has just released her book, Dilemmas
of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism
and the Transformation of Knowledge, published
by University of Chicago Press.
 |
Book
Description
In working to build a sense of nationhood,
Ghana has focused on many social engineering
projects, the most meaningful and fascinating
of which has been the state's effort to create
a national culture through its schools. As Cati
Coe reveals in Dilemmas of Culture in African
Schools, this effort has created an unusual
paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators
to teach about local cultural traditions, those
traditions are transformed as they are taught
in school classrooms. The state version of culture
now taught by educators has become objectified
and nationalized--vastly different from local
traditions. |
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Dr.
Coe identifies the state's limitations in
teaching cultural knowledge and discusses how
Ghanaians negotiate the tensions raised by the
competing visions of modernity that nationalism
and Christianity have created. She reveals how
cultural curricula affect authority relations
in local social organizations--between teachers
and students, between Christians and national
elite, and between children and elders--and raises
several questions about educational processes,
state-society relations, the production of knowledge,
and the making of Ghana's citizenry.
Congratulations from all of us, Cati!
>>>
view more CCCS publications |
|
| 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. For
more information please visit, http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Armies_of_the_Young_2296.html
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