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Children Producing Knowledge: Is it Childhood that’s in the Way?
					
 Mar 19, 2024 
 7:00PM to 8:00PM

									

				

					Event Categories   Reimagining Childhood
				

			


	

	

		

			

				

					

						

							Children Producing Knowledge: Is it Childhood that's in the Way? March 19, 2024. 7-8 pm EDT. Online.							

															

						

						

	

		


	Date/Time

	Date(s) - 19/03/2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm







Join us for the second talk in the MCYU series for adults, “Reimagining Childhood”. This talk will be moderated by Dr. Sandeep Raha, an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and the Director of the McMaster Children and Youth University (MCYU).


Among other things, reimagining childhood reveals surprising ways in which children are indispensable to making our world work, including in spheres we might not intuitively expect. But children as knowledge producers? That’s an idea worth examining more deeply. A growing body of research points to the importance of recognizing the unique ways children help to produce knowledge and what we all have to gain from taking their contributions seriously.


Join J. Marshall Beier, Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Critical Studies on Security, and Series Editor for Palgrave Studies in International Relations, as he discusses why we should acknowledge children as knowledge producers.


About the speaker:


Dr. J. Marshall Beier’s teaching and research interests turn on the constitution of and contestation around political subjecthood. Much of this is rooted in critical international relations and security studies through postcolonial, poststructuralist, feminist, and childhood-informed approaches. Established and ongoing areas of inquiry deal with intersections of childhoods and militarism, issues of children’s rights and political subjecthood across various settings, visual and affective economies of children in abject circumstances, and imagined childhood as a technology of global governance. As a 3M National Teaching Fellow and member of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, he is also interested in pedagogy both in practice and as an area of research focus. He is active with and serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the McMaster Children and Youth University.