thoughts on SRCD
Before i really look at hillel's ideas, i had one myself. it is self-serving, and isn't just CHILD, but why not -- 'Learning about childhood by interviewing mothers' or something like that. i don't know how attractive that topic would be, it might be better served framed as 'parental beliefs about children' or something like that, and i could talk about my dissertation data, and then the parent counselling study, or indigenous CHILD, or the income assistance project could talk as well. just a thought - why not have more and more papers in there? and it could be a methodological reflection as well as including findings.
learning about childhood by interviewing mothers: methodological reflections (and i could talk about discursive psychology, and others could talk about engaging with low income mothers or indiginous communities...)
ok, now i'm going to look at hillel's list. but what exactly i'm supposed to do with it i really don't know... maybe i'll try fleshing out some of the ideas...
1. There is a special category called the Memorial Panel Discussion which “honors a deceased person’s contribution to the field of child development.” My thought was to organize a symposium in memory of Urie Bronfbenbrenner (“the ecology of childhood”). Martin Guhn has already drafted a statement arguing that CHILD is very much a product of Bronfenbrenner’s thinking. We could have 3 presentations including an overview of CHILD, an example from one of the policy studies (macro) and one of the early screening/intervention studies (micro) to show the scope of CHILD and invite a major scholar like Jack Shonkoff or Michael Lamb to be the discussant (and 4th participant).
ok, i like this idea best, i think, it's really nice. Bronfenbrenner died in sept 2005, so having a memorial panel is apt (though maybe others have the same idea?).
possible titles:
The ecology of childhood: Modeling ecological systems theory in research
or
The CHILD project: Modeling ecological systems theory in early childhood research
whatever.
one possible configuration of participants:
-Martin Guhn or Hillel doing overview of CHILD
-macro/exosystem: Paul or Jane Pulkingham-income assistance
-mesosystem 1: parent counselling (impact of the training/counselling intervention)
-mesosystem 2: a screening study (maybe Indigenous CHILD, maybe Chilliwack)
-microsystem: Not a particular study, but a discussant (Martin or Hillel, having done the overview) focusing on what the different studies discussed here teach us about children's lived experiences in the microsystem of the family. we haven't observed parent/child interactions directly, but a discussion of how the income assistance findings and counselling findings together give us a larger, clearer window onto what's going on in the crucible of the family. This speaker can also bring in examples from other CHILD studies to demonstrate a) impact of macrosystem on every other system (eg: outdoor play--how policy impacts children's experiences in the playground) and b) how additional information from other mesosystem elements helps us understand children's lived experiences (again, outdoor play, aboriginal HIPPY), etc.
SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: Hillel has framed the screening studies as microsystem, but i think they're mesosystem, and that actually CHILD doesn't have any studies where the focus is actually the microsystem. an example of a microsystem study would be something like Brenda Volling's observational studies with parents and siblings. studies that really look at parental interactions with children. maybe studies that are about parents' beliefs about kids, or how they parent... so maybe Indigenous CHILD to the degree that there was discussion about how aboriginal parents construct childhood...
2. A symposium on Screening and Early Identification. We have a wonderful continuum of studies in this area and I think someone like Sam Meisels, a world scholar in early identification and assessment would be a great discussant. (I had checked out Michael Guralnick from the University of Washington but he won’t be going next year.)
3. A symposium on University-Community Research Collaborations. There is quite a lot coming out right now, particularly but not exclusively, from the community psychology community. More developmentalists are into this now as well. We have quite a range of different kinds of collaborations that would, side by side, make an interesting symposium. Richard Lerner has written a number of books in this area and would be a good choice as discussant.
4. I also think that there would be interest in a symposium on Aboriginal Early Child Development based primarily but not exclusively on the ICHILD and Aboriginal HIPPY Documentation Study. It would be important that we ensure the participation in these sessions of our Aboriginal partners. I’m not sure who might be an appropriate discussant and would look to Jessica, Lucy and others for direction.
It would be interesting to frame this, instead of simply aboriginal early child development, in terms of ecological systems theory: macrosystems in conflict--or maybe not quite in conflict, that seems very oppositional, and it's more to get across the idea that there are competing macrosystems here, in some cases maybe comfortable hybrids, but in other cases very clearly felt conflicts, and the results are some children raised without aboriginal heritage and learnings, and others with... Indiginous CHILD is key here, but also then the challenge of integrating traditional cultural learnings into programs created by oppressor aka 'mainstream' culture in documentation study. then there could also be representation from the aboriginal subsample of the Counselling study.
so the title could be something like:
The fall-out of colonialization: The impact of competing macrosystems on the lived experience of Aboriginal early childhood.
5. Policy Issues in Early Child Development would, I think, be of great interest at SRCD. The Income Assistance and Child Care Policy studies would be natural participants here and my dream would be to have Jack Shonkoff be the discussant.
6. “Large Scale ECD Projects” - this wouldn’t be the title but I am thinking of a session that could include, for example, CHILD, Rey Peters’ Better Beginnings program in Ontario and perhaps someone from the Cost, Quality and Child Care Outcomes Study in the U.S. Clyde Hertzman would be a great discussant.
SO, my contribution to thinking about the SRCD panels:
memorial panel discussion (see above)
The fall-out of colonialization: The impact of competing macrosystems on the lived experience of Aboriginal early childhood
Learning about childhood by interviewing mothers: Methodological reflections (or 'considerations')
learning about childhood by interviewing mothers: methodological reflections (and i could talk about discursive psychology, and others could talk about engaging with low income mothers or indiginous communities...)
ok, now i'm going to look at hillel's list. but what exactly i'm supposed to do with it i really don't know... maybe i'll try fleshing out some of the ideas...
1. There is a special category called the Memorial Panel Discussion which “honors a deceased person’s contribution to the field of child development.” My thought was to organize a symposium in memory of Urie Bronfbenbrenner (“the ecology of childhood”). Martin Guhn has already drafted a statement arguing that CHILD is very much a product of Bronfenbrenner’s thinking. We could have 3 presentations including an overview of CHILD, an example from one of the policy studies (macro) and one of the early screening/intervention studies (micro) to show the scope of CHILD and invite a major scholar like Jack Shonkoff or Michael Lamb to be the discussant (and 4th participant).
ok, i like this idea best, i think, it's really nice. Bronfenbrenner died in sept 2005, so having a memorial panel is apt (though maybe others have the same idea?).
possible titles:
The ecology of childhood: Modeling ecological systems theory in research
or
The CHILD project: Modeling ecological systems theory in early childhood research
whatever.
one possible configuration of participants:
-Martin Guhn or Hillel doing overview of CHILD
-macro/exosystem: Paul or Jane Pulkingham-income assistance
-mesosystem 1: parent counselling (impact of the training/counselling intervention)
-mesosystem 2: a screening study (maybe Indigenous CHILD, maybe Chilliwack)
-microsystem: Not a particular study, but a discussant (Martin or Hillel, having done the overview) focusing on what the different studies discussed here teach us about children's lived experiences in the microsystem of the family. we haven't observed parent/child interactions directly, but a discussion of how the income assistance findings and counselling findings together give us a larger, clearer window onto what's going on in the crucible of the family. This speaker can also bring in examples from other CHILD studies to demonstrate a) impact of macrosystem on every other system (eg: outdoor play--how policy impacts children's experiences in the playground) and b) how additional information from other mesosystem elements helps us understand children's lived experiences (again, outdoor play, aboriginal HIPPY), etc.
SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: Hillel has framed the screening studies as microsystem, but i think they're mesosystem, and that actually CHILD doesn't have any studies where the focus is actually the microsystem. an example of a microsystem study would be something like Brenda Volling's observational studies with parents and siblings. studies that really look at parental interactions with children. maybe studies that are about parents' beliefs about kids, or how they parent... so maybe Indigenous CHILD to the degree that there was discussion about how aboriginal parents construct childhood...
2. A symposium on Screening and Early Identification. We have a wonderful continuum of studies in this area and I think someone like Sam Meisels, a world scholar in early identification and assessment would be a great discussant. (I had checked out Michael Guralnick from the University of Washington but he won’t be going next year.)
3. A symposium on University-Community Research Collaborations. There is quite a lot coming out right now, particularly but not exclusively, from the community psychology community. More developmentalists are into this now as well. We have quite a range of different kinds of collaborations that would, side by side, make an interesting symposium. Richard Lerner has written a number of books in this area and would be a good choice as discussant.
4. I also think that there would be interest in a symposium on Aboriginal Early Child Development based primarily but not exclusively on the ICHILD and Aboriginal HIPPY Documentation Study. It would be important that we ensure the participation in these sessions of our Aboriginal partners. I’m not sure who might be an appropriate discussant and would look to Jessica, Lucy and others for direction.
It would be interesting to frame this, instead of simply aboriginal early child development, in terms of ecological systems theory: macrosystems in conflict--or maybe not quite in conflict, that seems very oppositional, and it's more to get across the idea that there are competing macrosystems here, in some cases maybe comfortable hybrids, but in other cases very clearly felt conflicts, and the results are some children raised without aboriginal heritage and learnings, and others with... Indiginous CHILD is key here, but also then the challenge of integrating traditional cultural learnings into programs created by oppressor aka 'mainstream' culture in documentation study. then there could also be representation from the aboriginal subsample of the Counselling study.
so the title could be something like:
The fall-out of colonialization: The impact of competing macrosystems on the lived experience of Aboriginal early childhood.
5. Policy Issues in Early Child Development would, I think, be of great interest at SRCD. The Income Assistance and Child Care Policy studies would be natural participants here and my dream would be to have Jack Shonkoff be the discussant.
6. “Large Scale ECD Projects” - this wouldn’t be the title but I am thinking of a session that could include, for example, CHILD, Rey Peters’ Better Beginnings program in Ontario and perhaps someone from the Cost, Quality and Child Care Outcomes Study in the U.S. Clyde Hertzman would be a great discussant.
SO, my contribution to thinking about the SRCD panels:
memorial panel discussion (see above)
The fall-out of colonialization: The impact of competing macrosystems on the lived experience of Aboriginal early childhood
Learning about childhood by interviewing mothers: Methodological reflections (or 'considerations')