Sociology of Childhood and Youth

Art in the lives of Children and Youth

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Tuesday May 30 8:30 am to 10:00 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

Children have the fundamental right to create and participate in the arts, as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children. This session explores the role ... more

Creative engagements: Experiencing and navigating youth cultures, identities, and communities

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Monday May 29 8:30 am to 10:00 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC Hybrid

This session explores theoretical and empirical accounts of youth’s relational and embodied experiences. Papers in this session consider how youth navigate and understand their social relations, online and offline ... more

Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Child and Youth Studies

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Tuesday May 30 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

As an interdisciplinary field, courses included in child and youth departments often cover a wide range of topics and issues. This roundtable invites presentations to critically reflect upon teaching and ... more

Failure and Non-Performativity in Commitments to EDI

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Monday May 29 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

Within the field of childhood and youth education, policy documents indicative of a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion are both ubiquitous and taken for granted in the representations of ... more

Putting Black focused theory to work in the study of Black childhood(s)

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Monday May 29 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

In the special edition on the Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada in the Canadian Journal of Sociology published in 2019, Adorjan and Berman point out in their editorial introduction ... more