(12/13/07) Student Presentation Day - Save the Date - 4/4/08

Dear Eliot-Pearson Community,

Please mark your calendars for our 15th Annual Student Presentation Day!

Friday, April 4, 2008

Thank you.

(12/12/07) Emails on Child Care, etc.

Hello everyone, Happy Holidays!

Just a quick note:

The staff is no longer allowed to receive or send emails regarding
child care. However, if you know of someone who is looking for
childcare, please advise them to send us a flyer via US Postal Service
and we will post it in our job book.
Thank you.

Justina

(12/10/07) GSA Wine & Cheese Tonight! 7pm EP Connector

To all faculty, staff and students!

Come raise a glass and make a toast to the end of the fall semester.

The Child Development Graduate Student Association invites you to
their annual Wine and Cheese Celebration.

Monday, December 10th, 2007, 7 p.m. in the EP Connector.

We hope to see you there!

*To all August '07, November '07 and expected February '08 EP
Graduates - don't forget to stop by to pick up a small token of
congrats to you for completing your degree!

(12/6/07) Call for Papers-childhood and migration

Also, here is a call for papers!

----- Forwarded message from heather_rae1@HOTMAIL.COM -----
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:59:54 -0500
From: Heather Rae-Espinoza <heather_rae1@HOTMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: Heather Rae-Espinoza <heather_rae1@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Childhood and Migration, CFP, Philadelphia, June 20-21, 2008
To: SPA@LISTSERV.EMORY.EDU

Please note that the deadline for abstracts is December 15th, 2008.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference 2008

Philadelphia, PA, USA

http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/

Friday, June 20th, and
Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Call for Participation

Announcing our Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah
Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive Director
of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances

The Working Group on Childhood and Migration (see
http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/) will
hold its first conference in June of 2008 in Philadelphia, with support
from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Drexel University, and
Rutgers
University, Camden. At this inaugural conference, we welcome researchers
and policy advocates from all disciplines and all areas of the world
whose work focuses on the ways that increased migration affects children
and the cultural, legal, educational, medical, and psychological
perception of childhood. Please submit a 200 to 300 word abstract for an
individual paper proposal in the body of an email to
rrr@drexel.edu by December
15th. Notification of acceptance
will be by January 10th. Conference
website is available at:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm

The way that world migration affects children?s lives is
complex and multi-faceted. Studies of children in migratory
circumstances
cross multiple areas of the world and multiple areas of concern for
researchers, policy makers and direct service workers. Moreover, larger
public concerns alter children?s lives, concerns like immigration visa
policies, media representations of child labor, and changing educational
systems. Migratory families also undergo unique private concerns over
problems like the quality of substitute care and communication with
loved
ones across long distances. Holistic or at least less partial glimpses
of
these children?s lives therefore must cross-cut the disciplines of law,
political science, sociology, anthropology, demography, psychology,
education, economics, communication, humanities and the arts. And yet,
within academe researchers tend to communicate only with those in the
same discipline or in the same geographical region. Thus, the June 2008
conference will provide a venue to share data, methodologies, and
theories regardless of discipline, with a focus directly on how children
fare under conditions of migration. Additionally, we want to create
cross-disciplinary synergy by bringing together junior and senior
research-active faculty internationally committed to developing new
research avenues on childhood and migration.

To frame our approach to child-centered understanding of childhood and
migration, we consider childhood to be centrally important to grasping
the effect that increased (and increasingly visible) world migration has
on social and household reproduction. As a result, the following
questions are important in guiding researchers abstracts for the
conference:

--Are children?s development and maturation processes significantly
affected by migration experiences, and if so, how deleterious or
beneficial are they? Is a migration-associated childhood now something
normative, and what does that kind of childhood look like?

--How are children?s rights and the notion of children as citizens
affected by transnationalism, or by movement of parents and children in
and out of various national legal systems?

--What are the emotional consequences of family separation across
migratory families, especially for children?

--What are children?s perspectives on migration, how are they to be
elicited, how well can they be elicited and represented, and what can
these perspectives tell us about socialization and processes of
maturation in transnational families?

--How is migration shaping any given culture group?s notions of
childhood, and how are cultural notions of childhood shaping migration?

--What are general and specific manifestations of notions of childhood
under global economic change? For example, how do remittances affect
expectations for children?s scholastic achievement? How do remittances
which elevate families into higher classes affect children?s social
development? How are attitudes toward child labor changing with
increased
international migration?

--How do media and policy makers represent children in migration and how
do discourses about immigrant children and migrant parents affect their
lives and experiences?

--What can we do to generate better quantitative and qualitative data on
the effects that migration has on children? What are the numbers of
migrant children and how are they best defined as children in their own
rights?

The conference will run two days, June 20, and 21, at Drexel University
in downtown Philadelphia. Philadelphia is accessible from Philadelphia
International (PHL), Newark International (EWR) and
Baltimore-Washington,
D.C. (BWI) airports. Philadelphia is two hours from New York City and
Washington D.C. by train. Limited funding for travel and/or
accommodations in Philadelphia is available for graduate students and
international scholars (please indicate your interest with your abstract
submission). We anticipate publishing selected papers in a conference
volume.

Conference includes buffet breakfasts, and a lunch and a dinner on one
day. Conference pre-registration fees will be U.S. $30.00 for tenured
and
tenure-track professors and U.S. $20.00 for all others. For
pre-registration rate, please register by February 1, 2007. Registration
on site will be $40.00.

Contact Rachel Reynolds
rrr@drexel.edu phone 215-895-0498, or
Cati Coe ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu
phone 856-225-6455, for more information.

Conference website is available at:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Heather Rae-Espinoza, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Human Development

California State University, Long Beach

1250 Bellflower Blvd.

Long Beach, CA 90840-1602

hre@csulb.edu

Office: (562) 985-4209

Fax: (562) 985-4237

click to give...

http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=5

**********************************

Ila Deshmukh Towery
Senior Research Associate
Boston Plan for Excellence
6 Beacon Street, Suite 615
Boston, MA 02108
(p) 617.275.0712
(f) 617.227.8446

Please note that the deadline for abstracts is December 15th, 2008.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference 2008
Philadelphia, PA, USA
http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/

Friday, June 20th, and Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Call for Participation

Announcing our Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah
Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive
Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances

The Working Group on Childhood and Migration (see http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/)
will hold its first conference in June of 2008 in Philadelphia, with
support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Drexel University,
and Rutgers University, Camden. At this inaugural conference, we
welcome researchers and policy advocates from all disciplines and all
areas of the world whose work focuses on the ways that increased
migration affects children and the cultural, legal, educational,
medical, and psychological perception of childhood. Please submit a
200 to 300 word abstract for an individual paper proposal in the body
of an email to rrr@drexel.edu by December 15th. Notification of
acceptance will be by January 10th. Conference website is available
at: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm

The way that world migration affects children's lives is complex and
multi-faceted. Studies of children in migratory circumstances cross
multiple areas of the world and multiple areas of concern for
researchers, policy makers and direct service workers. Moreover,
larger public concerns alter children's lives, concerns like
immigration visa policies, media representations of child labor, and
changing educational systems. Migratory families also undergo unique
private concerns over problems like the quality of substitute care and
communication with loved ones across long distances. Holistic or at
least less partial glimpses of these children's lives therefore must
cross-cut the disciplines of law, political science, sociology,
anthropology, demography, psychology, education, economics,
communication, humanities and the arts. And yet, within academe
researchers tend to communicate only with those in the same discipline
or in the same geographical region. Thus, the June 2008 conference
will provide a venue to share data, methodologies, and theories
regardless of discipline, with a focus directly on how children fare
under conditions of migration. Additionally, we want to create cross-
disciplinary synergy by bringing together junior and senior research-
active faculty internationally committed to developing new research
avenues on childhood and migration.

To frame our approach to child-centered understanding of childhood and
migration, we consider childhood to be centrally important to grasping
the effect that increased (and increasingly visible) world migration
has on social and household reproduction. As a result, the following
questions are important in guiding researchers abstracts for the
conference:

--Are children's development and maturation processes significantly
affected by migration experiences, and if so, how deleterious or
beneficial are they? Is a migration-associated childhood now something
normative, and what does that kind of childhood look like?

--How are children's rights and the notion of children as citizens
affected by transnationalism, or by movement of parents and children
in and out of various national legal systems?

--What are the emotional consequences of family separation across
migratory families, especially for children?

--What are children's perspectives on migration, how are they to be
elicited, how well can they be elicited and represented, and what can
these perspectives tell us about socialization and processes of
maturation in transnational families?

--How is migration shaping any given culture group's notions of
childhood, and how are cultural notions of childhood shaping migration?

--What are general and specific manifestations of notions of childhood
under global economic change? For example, how do remittances affect
expectations for children's scholastic achievement? How do remittances
which elevate families into higher classes affect children's social
development? How are attitudes toward child labor changing with
increased international migration?

--How do media and policy makers represent children in migration and
how do discourses about immigrant children and migrant parents affect
their lives and experiences?

--What can we do to generate better quantitative and qualitative data
on the effects that migration has on children? What are the numbers of
migrant children and how are they best defined as children in their
own rights?

The conference will run two days, June 20, and 21, at Drexel
University in downtown Philadelphia. Philadelphia is accessible from
Philadelphia International (PHL), Newark International (EWR) and
Baltimore-Washington, D.C. (BWI) airports. Philadelphia is two hours
from New York City and Washington D.C. by train. Limited funding for
travel and/or accommodations in Philadelphia is available for graduate
students and international scholars (please indicate your interest
with your abstract submission). We anticipate publishing selected
papers in a conference volume.

Conference includes buffet breakfasts, and a lunch and a dinner on one
day. Conference pre-registration fees will be U.S. $30.00 for tenured
and tenure-track professors and U.S. $20.00 for all others. For pre-
registration rate, please register by February 1, 2007. Registration
on site will be $40.00.

Contact Rachel Reynolds rrr@drexel.edu phone 215-895-0498, or Cati Coe ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu
phone 856-225-6455, for more information.
Conference website is available at: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Heather Rae-Espinoza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-1602

hre@csulb.edu
Office: (562) 985-4209
Fax: (562) 985-4237

click to give...
http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=5

(12/7/07) New SRCD Initiative

Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:17:31 -0500
From: Genevieve Okada <gaokada@GMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: Genevieve Okada <gaokada@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: NEW SRCD Initiative for Small Conference or Study Group
To: SPA@LISTSERV.EMORY.EDU

*NEW SRCD Initiative*

*Request for Proposals: Small Conference or Study Group*

In a *new initiative*, the Society for Research in Child Development
*invites
proposals* for small conferences or study groups to further the
strategic
priorities and goals of the Society. In its 5-year strategic plan of
2005,
the Society identified five goals that have guided its activities since
then. Proposals are sought that will further three of the strategic
priorities and goals in particular:

1. Increase appreciation for the fact that an understanding of
development requires the perspectives and methods of multiple
disciplines.

2. Increase cultural and contextual diversity in all aspects of
the
study of child development.

3. Increase international perspectives in the study of child
development.

The Society is interested in supporting intellectual and scholarly
activities that will bring together groups that will work to further the
goals of multidisciplinarity, increasing diversity, and recognition of
international perspectives (please see the Strategic Plan at
www.srcd.orgfor further information on these goals). We are also
interested in ensuring
that the products of the activities are broadly disseminated to the
membership of the Society and beyond. Accordingly, the Society proposes
to
sponsor small conferences or study groups.

The size of awards will vary depending on the needs and goals of the
conference or study group. As a general guideline, the range of awards
will
be $20,000 to $40,000. Priority will be given to proposals for
initiatives
for which matching funds will be sought. In addition, priority will be
given
to initiatives that will result in an intellectual product that will be
broadly disseminated. Examples include (but are not limited to) books,
edited volumes, and special issues of journals (including *Child
Development
*), as well as products designed for broader audiences of policymakers
or
practitioners. Applicants also may consider dissemination via the
Society
website, and/or webcasting their proceedings.

*Application Process*: Please submit a description of the conference or
study group, including the background and significance of the problem,
the
goals of the meeting or working group, and how they fit with those of
the
Society, as outlined in the Strategic Plan. Include a list of proposed
participants with a description of their expected roles in the
initiative, a
1-page CV for each participant, a timeline for completion of the
proposed
work, and a proposed budget. Budget items may include travel, supplies,
secretarial/assistant support and other costs related to the goals of
the
conference or study group. Please also describe the plans for securing
matching funds and for dissemination of the products of the initiative
(e.g.,
edited volume, special issue), including a description of the proposed
audience. Applications are limited to a maximum of 750 words (not
including
CVs), and should be submitted electronically to Susan Lennon (
slennon@srcd.org). Prospective applicants should feel free to contact
Executive Director Lonnie Sherrod (sherrod@srcd.org or 734-926-0611) if
they
have questions or wish to discuss their ideas before submission.
Deadline
for receipt of applications is *January 31, 2008*. Funding decisions
will be
made by March 21, 2008.

----- End forwarded message -----

**********************************

Ila Deshmukh Towery
Senior Research Associate
Boston Plan for Excellence
6 Beacon Street, Suite 615
Boston, MA 02108
(p) 617.275.0712
(f) 617.227.8446

NEW SRCD Initiative

Request for Proposals: Small Conference or Study Group

In a new initiative, the Society for Research in Child Development
invites proposals for small conferences or study groups to further the
strategic priorities and goals of the Society. In its 5-year strategic
plan of 2005, the Society identified five goals that have guided its
activities since then. Proposals are sought that will further three of
the strategic priorities and goals in particular:

1. Increase appreciation for the fact that an understanding of
development requires the perspectives and methods of multiple
disciplines.

2. Increase cultural and contextual diversity in all aspects of
the study of child development.

3. Increase international perspectives in the study of child
development.

The Society is interested in supporting intellectual and scholarly
activities that will bring together groups that will work to further
the goals of multidisciplinarity, increasing diversity, and
recognition of international perspectives (please see the Strategic
Plan at www.srcd.org for further information on these goals). We are
also interested in ensuring that the products of the activities are
broadly disseminated to the membership of the Society and beyond.
Accordingly, the Society proposes to sponsor small conferences or
study groups.

The size of awards will vary depending on the needs and goals of the
conference or study group. As a general guideline, the range of awards
will be $20,000 to $40,000. Priority will be given to proposals for
initiatives for which matching funds will be sought. In addition,
priority will be given to initiatives that will result in an
intellectual product that will be broadly disseminated. Examples
include (but are not limited to) books, edited volumes, and special
issues of journals (including Child Development), as well as products
designed for broader audiences of policymakers or practitioners.
Applicants also may consider dissemination via the Society website,
and/or webcasting their proceedings.

Application Process: Please submit a description of the conference or
study group, including the background and significance of the problem,
the goals of the meeting or working group, and how they fit with those
of the Society, as outlined in the Strategic Plan. Include a list of
proposed participants with a description of their expected roles in
the initiative, a 1-page CV for each participant, a timeline for
completion of the proposed work, and a proposed budget. Budget items
may include travel, supplies, secretarial/assistant support and other
costs related to the goals of the conference or study group. Please
also describe the plans for securing matching funds and for
dissemination of the products of the initiative (e.g., edited volume,
special issue), including a description of the proposed audience.
Applications are limited to a maximum of 750 words (not including
CVs), and should be submitted electronically to Susan Lennon (slennon@srcd.org
). Prospective applicants sh!
ould feel free to contact Executive Director Lonnie Sherrod (sherrod@srcd.org
or 734-926-0611) if they have questions or wish to discuss their
ideas before submission. Deadline for receipt of applications is
January 31, 2008. Funding decisions will be made by March 21, 2008.

(12/5/07) Call for Papers

Announcing a call for applications...

UVA's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Education
Sciences is accepting applications now through February 29th, 2008 for
the 2008-2009 program year.

The Program's goal is to train the next generation of scientists who
will address questions that have clear implications for education
practice and policy. Fellows will complete a 2-year doctoral
traineeship in rigorous research methods, research partnerships, and
conceptual frameworks for addressing questions of educational
relevance. These early career scholars will acquire the requisite
tools for conducting multi-method educational research, and will start
to establish a line of programmatic research enabling them to become
leaders in the education sciences. The training program emphasizes
scientific approaches to risk and prevention, especially as these
apply to student inequality and underperformance.

For more information, including application guidelines, please see:
< http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=942&Itemid=0

>

and contact me with any questions at jmashburn@virginia.edu

Thank you,
Jen

Jennifer Mashburn
Program Coordinator
National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education
(NCRECE)
Risk & Prevention in Education Sciences (RPES)
University of Virginia
350 Old Ivy Way, Suite 100
Charlottesville, VA 22903
434-243-2021
jmashburn@virginia.edu
http://www.virginia.edu/vprgs/CASTL/

(12/4/07) Graduate Student Events

Graduate student events

GSC Annual Toy Drive
December 3-12th, GSC Lounge, West Hall 001 or Classics Department Office
Drop off new toys, games, and books for children of all ages; warm
clothing items for children; or gift cards to stores such as Target, Old
Navy, Marshalls.

Munchkin Monday
Monday December 10th, 8:30 a.m. until the food is gone Stop by the GSC
Lounge in the basement of West Hall for free coffee and munchkins on the
last day of class. Drop off a toy when you grab your coffee!

(12/4/07) CD173 Exhibit Invitation

Subject: An invitation to our exhibit this Wednesday at 5:15pm

You are invited to an exhibit of the work of CD 173: Curriculum for
Young Children: Math, Science, and Technology.

We'll be demonstrating our own experiences working with children,
teaching them with new kinds of technologies. Come and see what we've
worked hard on all semester!

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

5:15pm - 6:00pm
Curriculum Lab, Eliot-Pearson Building

Snacks will be served

From the CD 173 class

Questions? Contact Natalie.Rusk@tufts.edu

(12/03/07) Out of the Brown Bag series PhD Student Committee presents

The Ph.D. Student Committee presents as part of its
"Out of the Brown Bag" Series

"Statistically Speaking"

This forum will provide an overview of statistical training resources,
including (but not limited to) courses and workshops (on and off
campus), software, and books.

A question-and-answer period will be included to address questions
related to the appropriate use of various statistical methods.

Friday, December 7
12noon-1pm
Stevens Library
Eliot-Pearson Building

For additional information, contact Aerika Brittian (Aerika.Brittian@tufts.edu
) or Yibing Li (Yibing.Li@tufts.edu).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(12/3/07) Parking at Eliot-Pearson Lot

Dear Students,

Just a friendly reminder that students are not allowed to parking in
the EP lot. In an effort to avoid parking tickets, I've been asked to
send out this reminder.

Please use the lot at Cousen's or upper campus parking/garage spaces.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Mary Ellen