Children & Youth Perspectives Conference: Theory, Research and Practice in the European context

Institute of Communication and Journalism Faculty of Social Sciences CU, Department of Psychology and Life Sciences Faculty of Humanities CU and Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication Faculty of Arts CU organize Children & Youth Perspectives Conference: Theory, Research and Practice in the European context on 14th - 15th September 2023 at the Kampus Hybernská, Hybernská 4, Prague 1, Czech Republic.

The conference contributes to the current discussion and further development on a child-centered perspective in the field of Childhood/Children‘s studies in the EU and the Czech context.

A critique of the adult-centered theory and research methods argues since the 1990s that children and young people in traditional discourses are considered by adults as incompetent in their skills before developing into fully respectable adults. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) questions the implementation of children’s rights in children’s daily encounters with social institutions, such as family, education and schools, social services, health services, law institutes etc. The child-centered perspective aims to acknowledge, address and empower children’s voice while considering children as active social agents with their experiences and perspectives that are relevant for society.

In this perspective, the conference will discuss the following themes:

• Child-centered theory, concepts and research methods
• Children, UN CRC, social disadvantages, institutions and services
• Children, play & imagination
• Children & Space
• Children & Media

More information here and on the conference website.

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