Childhood and Society SIG News Supporting Early Years leaders to develop through digital professional learning September 5, 2022 Dates now released: Childhood and Society Seminar Series 2022 February 1, 2022February 1, 2022 CHILDHOOD AND SOCIETY SEMINAR: BEYOND MALE RECRUITMENT November 8, 2021November 12, 2021 Video: Portal-time and wander lines – What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (Professor Jayne Osgood, Childhood and Society Seminar) September 20, 2021 Dr Mona Sakr & Polly Crowther make the case for urgently developing leadership in the Early Years September 20, 2021 Childhood and Society Seminar with Professor Jayne Osgood: Portal-time and wander lines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (12pm London Time, 20th Sep, free, online) September 15, 2021March 17, 2022 CERS Newsletter September 2021 September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Video: Challenging Negative Perceptions around the ‘African Child’ (Childhood and Society Seminar Series) July 14, 2021 Professor Jayne Osgood presents on the ‘mutated modest witness’ at SERA’s Early Years Network (video online) July 1, 2021 Video: Hybrid-Transitions as a Space for Children’s Agency. A Case-Study from a Pre-kindergarten in Boston. (Free, online seminar hosted on Monday 28th June 2021) July 1, 2021 Professor Jayne Osgood wins ‘Postgraduate Research Supervisor of the Year’ in the Middlesex University Student Union Awards July 1, 2021 Video: Feminism, Gender Justice and Resistance in Early Childhood Education (Professor Jayne Osgood) June 22, 2021 Video: Down the Back of a Chair – What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene? (Childhood and Society Seminar, Monday 14th June 2021, with Professor Victoria de Rijke and Professor Jayne Osgood) June 16, 2021June 19, 2021 Video: Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education – An introduction with Dr Mona Sakr (recorded seminar from Monday 17th May 2021) May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 Dr Abele Longo to present on Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics at the University of Turin May 11, 2021May 24, 2021 Video: Storytelling in early years leadership: The power of sharing what we do April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines – pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene. 12-12.45pm, Monday 19th April 2021 (free, online) March 29, 2021May 11, 2021 How do we tell the story of early years? The shortest survey you’ll ever complete. March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Video online: Shaping curricula through pedagogical innovation: Facilitation of young children’s narratives in the classroom – a free online Childhood & Society seminar, Monday 22nd March 2021 March 15, 2021March 23, 2021 Video: ‘Worlding’ in Early Childhood Research: An interactive, introductory workshop with Professor Jayne Osgood March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Seminar Video: Children as Architects of their own Education – An insight into Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics February 25, 2021March 10, 2021 MA Childhood and Education in Diverse Societies – now recruiting! February 22, 2021 Video: From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood? February 9, 2021February 25, 2021 Dates now released: Childhood and Society Seminar Series 2021 February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Dr Jacqueline Hosts the Roundtable ‘Children and Mental Health’ at the Bright Start Conference February 3, 2021 Dr Jacqueline Harding works on the new BBC series for children ‘My Very First’ February 3, 2021 Early Years: Finding Our Voice – – transcript, briefing & video of the event January 22, 2021 ‘Decolonising knowledge’ – watch the webinar given by Professor Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas December 11, 2020January 4, 2021 Watch Jayne Osgood’s keynote at the Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference: Taking matter seriously: what can we learn from attuning to ‘stuff’ December 9, 2020 Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World – transcript, briefing & videos of the event November 18, 2020November 23, 2020 Event: Gender Matters in the Classroom – Free Middlesex University Webinar, 25th Nov 2020 October 31, 2020November 26, 2020 CERS Newsletter, July 2020: Read about our latest developments and activities October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Event: Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World, 10th Nov 2020 October 8, 2020November 10, 2020 Special Issue: ‘Reimagining Childhood, Motherhood, Family and Community’ March 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Guest Lecture: Alternative Understandings About How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room. Presented by Dr Jayne Osgood. February 16, 2020October 8, 2020 Guest Lecture: Jayne Osgood on Researching Gendered Childhoods in the Anthropocene: a PhEMaterialist Experiment February 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Presentation: Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines: pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene February 3, 2020February 3, 2021 Event: What else does Haraway’s figure of the Mutated Modest Witness make possible in Early Childhood Research? January 3, 2020February 3, 2021 PhEMaterialist encounters with glitter: the materialisation of ethics, politics and care in arts-based research January 3, 2020February 3, 2021 CERS Newsletter, October 2019: Read about our latest activities and developments October 16, 2019October 16, 2020 New Book: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Art February 3, 2019February 3, 2021 New Research Report: ‘Musiceum’ – museums as spaces for early childhood music-making July 11, 2018October 8, 2020 Consultancy: ‘No more boys and girls’ – BBC Program August 14, 2017October 8, 2020 New Chapter: ‘The Values of Savagery’ by Dr Victoria de Rijke May 3, 2017February 3, 2021 New Chapter: “Reimagining anti-bias as wordly entanglement” by Jayne Osgood, Red Ruby Scarlet, Awilda Longstocking, Jean de Clisson and Grain O’Malley November 3, 2016February 3, 2021 New Chapter: “Transmogrifying the maternal entanglements of feminist academics” by Professor Jayne Osgood July 3, 2016February 3, 2021
Video: Portal-time and wander lines – What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (Professor Jayne Osgood, Childhood and Society Seminar) September 20, 2021
Dr Mona Sakr & Polly Crowther make the case for urgently developing leadership in the Early Years September 20, 2021
Childhood and Society Seminar with Professor Jayne Osgood: Portal-time and wander lines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (12pm London Time, 20th Sep, free, online) September 15, 2021March 17, 2022
Video: Challenging Negative Perceptions around the ‘African Child’ (Childhood and Society Seminar Series) July 14, 2021
Professor Jayne Osgood presents on the ‘mutated modest witness’ at SERA’s Early Years Network (video online) July 1, 2021
Video: Hybrid-Transitions as a Space for Children’s Agency. A Case-Study from a Pre-kindergarten in Boston. (Free, online seminar hosted on Monday 28th June 2021) July 1, 2021
Professor Jayne Osgood wins ‘Postgraduate Research Supervisor of the Year’ in the Middlesex University Student Union Awards July 1, 2021
Video: Feminism, Gender Justice and Resistance in Early Childhood Education (Professor Jayne Osgood) June 22, 2021
Video: Down the Back of a Chair – What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene? (Childhood and Society Seminar, Monday 14th June 2021, with Professor Victoria de Rijke and Professor Jayne Osgood) June 16, 2021June 19, 2021
Video: Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education – An introduction with Dr Mona Sakr (recorded seminar from Monday 17th May 2021) May 24, 2021May 24, 2021
Dr Abele Longo to present on Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics at the University of Turin May 11, 2021May 24, 2021
Video: Storytelling in early years leadership: The power of sharing what we do April 29, 2021April 29, 2021
Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines – pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene. 12-12.45pm, Monday 19th April 2021 (free, online) March 29, 2021May 11, 2021
How do we tell the story of early years? The shortest survey you’ll ever complete. March 24, 2021March 24, 2021
Video online: Shaping curricula through pedagogical innovation: Facilitation of young children’s narratives in the classroom – a free online Childhood & Society seminar, Monday 22nd March 2021 March 15, 2021March 23, 2021
Video: ‘Worlding’ in Early Childhood Research: An interactive, introductory workshop with Professor Jayne Osgood March 10, 2021March 10, 2021
Seminar Video: Children as Architects of their own Education – An insight into Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics February 25, 2021March 10, 2021
Video: From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood? February 9, 2021February 25, 2021
Dr Jacqueline Hosts the Roundtable ‘Children and Mental Health’ at the Bright Start Conference February 3, 2021
‘Decolonising knowledge’ – watch the webinar given by Professor Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas December 11, 2020January 4, 2021
Watch Jayne Osgood’s keynote at the Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference: Taking matter seriously: what can we learn from attuning to ‘stuff’ December 9, 2020
Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World – transcript, briefing & videos of the event November 18, 2020November 23, 2020
Event: Gender Matters in the Classroom – Free Middlesex University Webinar, 25th Nov 2020 October 31, 2020November 26, 2020
CERS Newsletter, July 2020: Read about our latest developments and activities October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
Special Issue: ‘Reimagining Childhood, Motherhood, Family and Community’ March 8, 2020October 8, 2020
Guest Lecture: Alternative Understandings About How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room. Presented by Dr Jayne Osgood. February 16, 2020October 8, 2020
Guest Lecture: Jayne Osgood on Researching Gendered Childhoods in the Anthropocene: a PhEMaterialist Experiment February 8, 2020October 8, 2020
Presentation: Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines: pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene February 3, 2020February 3, 2021
Event: What else does Haraway’s figure of the Mutated Modest Witness make possible in Early Childhood Research? January 3, 2020February 3, 2021
PhEMaterialist encounters with glitter: the materialisation of ethics, politics and care in arts-based research January 3, 2020February 3, 2021
CERS Newsletter, October 2019: Read about our latest activities and developments October 16, 2019October 16, 2020
New Research Report: ‘Musiceum’ – museums as spaces for early childhood music-making July 11, 2018October 8, 2020
New Chapter: “Reimagining anti-bias as wordly entanglement” by Jayne Osgood, Red Ruby Scarlet, Awilda Longstocking, Jean de Clisson and Grain O’Malley November 3, 2016February 3, 2021
New Chapter: “Transmogrifying the maternal entanglements of feminist academics” by Professor Jayne Osgood July 3, 2016February 3, 2021
