CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE Time Wednesday 9 Thursday 10 Friday 11 Saturday 12 08:00 Registration 08:30 09:00 Pre-conference Welcome Keynote lecture 09:30 workshop Keynote lecture Paper sessions 10:00 Coffee break 10:30 Coffee break 11:00 Paper sessions Paper sessions Coffee break 11:30 Keynote lecture 12:00 Lunch break 12:30 Lunch break 13:00 Poster session Farewell 13:30 14:00 Keynote lecture Invited 14:30 symposium and Excursions 15:00 Paper sessions Paper sessions (Alvar Aalto/ 15:30 Nature trip) 16:00 Registration Coffee break 16:30 Paper sessions 17:00 17:30 Campus walk 18:00 18:30 19:00 Welcome 19:30 reception 20:00 Conference 20:30 dinner 21:00 21:30 22:00 22:30
DAILY PROGRAMME Wednesday, 9 June 2010 Time Session & room Session title 09.00-12.00 Pre-conference workshop 16.00-19.00 C3 Book launch; Annual meeting (both in Finnish) 16.00-19.00 Main building, lobby Registration 19.00-21.00 Main building, lobby Welcoming reception Thursday, 10 June 2010 Time Session & room Session title 08.00-17.00 Main building, lobby Registration 09.00-09.30 Main building, C1-C2 Opening of the conference Leena Alanen, LaNKa, University of Jyväskylä Pauline von Bonsdorff, Finnish Society for Childhood Studies Aino Sallinen, Rector of the University of Jyväskylä 09.30-10.30 Keynote lecture Main building, C1-C2 Children and young people's participation: challenging the status quo? Professor Kay Tisdall, University of Edinburgh 10.30-11.00 Main building, lobby Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Paper session, X231 Negotiating meaning and knowledge Paper session, X225 Child's knowledge - what is it? (Presentations in Finnish) Paper session, X234 Adolescents' understanding of bullying, alone time, and adulthood Paper session, X232 Participation I Paper session, C4 Aesthetic agency and knowledge of children I 12.30-14.00 Lunch break 14.00-15.00 Keynote lecture Main building, C1-C2 Making children s voices heard in psychotherapy and research Professor Jaakko Seikkula, University of Jyväskylä 15.15-17.15 Paper session, C3 Working with Bourdieu Paper session, X123 Different approaches to knowledge about nature Paper session, X232 Participation II Paper session, X234 Knowledge about family life Paper session, X231 Participation III: Children as partners Paper session, X225 How to analyse textual documents in child protection 17.30 Main building, lobby Guided campus tour Friday, 11 June 2010 Time Session & room Session title 09.00-10.00 Keynote lecture Main building, C1-C2 Child faber: Exploring children s drawings as text, pretext, and context for knowledge
production Professor Christine Marmé Thompson, School of Visual Arts at Penn State University 10.00-10.30 Main building, lobby Coffee break 10.30-12.00 Paper session, C3 Children, school, family relations Paper session, C4 Aesthetic agency and knowledge of children II Paper session, X231 Reading, seeing and participating - methods for understanding children and childhood Paper session, X234 Children, environment and research 12.00-13.00 Lunch break 13.00-14.00 Poster session Poster session Main building, lobby 14.00-16.00 Invited symposium, C4 Theoretical and methodological challenges in childhood studies: human development, social inclusion, and practices of child welfare and child protection Paper session, X225 Children as knowledge producers Paper session, X234 Enhancing children s personal agency Paper session, X232 Children as cultural producers: Critical perspectives from historic, new, and ephemeral media 16.00-16.30 Main building, lobby Coffee break 16.30-18.00 Paper session, C4 Technology serving children's own knowledge production and communication Paper session, C3 Play and knowledge construction Paper session, X232 Cultures of care and education 20.00-22.30 Restaurant Vesilinna Conference dinner Saturday, 12 June 2010 Time Session & room Session title 09.30-11.00 Paper session, C3 Innovative methods in childhood research Paper session, C4 Constructing meanings, motivations and shared understandings Paper session, X232 Children as knowledge producers II (Presentations in Finnish) 11.00-11.30 Main building, lobby Coffee break 11.30-13.00 Keynote lecture Main building, C1-C2 The relevance of relevance. Social science and social practice in post-positivistic society Professor Pekka Sulkunen, University of Helsinki Invited comment New instrumentalism, evidence-based policymaking, and social research Professor Marketta Rajavaara, University of Helsinki 13.00-13.30 Main building, C1-C2 Farewell 14.30- Social programme Excursions: Alvar Aalto architectural tour Nature trip
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME IN DETAILS Wednesday 9, 9-12 Pre-conference workshop Knowledge of children with the words of music - is it possible? What/how are small children telling with their music making? How do children communicate with their music making? Facilitator: MPhil Hanna Hakomäki, music therapist, psychotherapist, piano teacher 9:00-10:00 Storycomposing workshop, Hanna Hakomäki -introduction -workshop -discussion 10:00-11:30 Other approaches from the participants 11:30-12:00 Discussion Thursday 10, 9.30-10.30 Keynote lecture Children and young people's participation: challenging the status quo? Professor Kay Tisdall, University of Edinburgh Room: Main building, C1-C2
Thursday 10, 11-12.30 Paper sessions Negotiating meaning and knowledge Chair: Maarit Alasuutari Child's knowledge - what is it? (Presentations in Finnish) Chair: Paula Eerola- Pennanen Adolescents' understanding of bullying, alone time, and adulthood Participation I Aesthetic agency and knowledge of children I Chair: Maili Pörhölä Chair: Johanna Kiili Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room X231 Room X225 Room X234 Room X232 Room C4 Penny Curtis: Negotiating meaning: child-adult relations and accounts of children s hospital experiences. Suvi Pennanen: Useless knowledge? Children s intertextual media play in kindergarten Sanna Karhunen: One phenomenon, differing perspectives: How victimized, bullying, and other students understand school bullying? Lucia Rabello de Castro: What partnership with children? Subjectivity, action and children s participation Maarit Alasuutari: Parental knowledge in parentpractitioner conferences in Finnish day care Minna Lähteenmäki: Asylum seeking children's feelings about staying in Finland and repatriation Nancy Worth: Redefining Adulthood in the Open Lifecourse Tarja Heino: Studying Family Group Conferences from a Child Perspective with children William Corsaro: And You Bill, Do You Want a Shot? : The Importance of Children s Visual Culture in Longitudinal Ethnographic Research with Children Jaana Erkkilä: A Visual Dialog as a Way to Create New Knowledge in the Field of Art Education Berit Overå Johannesen: There is no such thing as a shield attack : Norwegian children negotiating knowledge claims during Lego play. Zoya Baranova: Psychological problems of children and the teenagers who are brought up in the residential institutions in Russia Paula Eerola-Pennanen: Child-child interviews Sue Vernon: The importance of alone time for children described by young people Johanna Kiili: Multiple research methods in the study of children s parliaments Pauline von Bonsdorff: Children s aesthetic agency and arts-based research Thursday 10, 14.00-15.00 Keynote lecture Making children s voices heard in psychotherapy and research Professor Jaakko Seikkula, University of Jyväskylä Room: Main building, C1-C2
Thursday 10, 15.15-17.15 Paper sessions Working with Bourdieu Different approaches to knowledge about nature Participation II Knowledge about family life Chair: Leena Alanen, Chair: Ulla-Maija Salo Chair: Pirjo Pölkki Chair: Marja Leena Böök Children as partners (Participation III) Chair: Pentti Moilanen How to analyse textual documents in child protection Chair: Mirja Satka Room C3 Room X123 Room X232 Room X234 Room X231 Room X225 Hanne Warming Nielsen: Ethics and politics of child-led research Sören Frappart: Development of gravitation understanding in space for French schoolchildren Efrosini Kalyva: How do children and young people who were exposed to violence view participation? Aino Ritala-Koskinen: Knowing childs' family in child protection Mari Vuorisalo: Children s social capital and interaction in the kindergarten Eva GullØv: The making of social distinctions a Bourdieu-inspired discussion of preschools in Denmark Leena Alanen: Children's relational world and the reproduction of inequality: Introducing Bourdieu's relational methodology Bishnu Hari Bhatta: The Nature Action Collaborative for Children: Spectacular Mud Day Celebration in Nepal! Romain Boissonnade: The combination of collaborative and solitary active situations can lead to a scientific thought: a study on floating or sinking conceptions with 10 y.o. children. Ulla-Maija Salo: Children s Ways of Knowing Nature Pirjo Pölkki: Children's participation in child welfare processes as experienced by foster children, social workers and foster mothers Sirpa Kannasoja and Anu-Riina Svenlin: Children and Social Work Research from participation to protection? Tatek Abebe: Participatory ethics in qualitative research with vulnerable children in Ethiopia Louise Hill: 'It takes courage' (Bart,aged 13): Choosing to talk about private family life with a researcher Eva Ossiansson: Managing the everyday health puzzle in families with children Marja Leena Böök and Johanna Mykkänen: Daily family life as photographs and narratives Vicky Johnsson: Is Children s Knowledge in Participatory Evaluation Using Visual Methods Regarded as Soft by People in Positions of Power? Ruut Tikkanen: Designing singing and composition game (JamMo) with 5-6 years old children Sirke Santander: Children as participants in research Andrew Duggan: Moving Beyond Diagnosis Children s knowledge as Case Consultants Saila Huuskonen: Children s information in child protection s documentation Kati Kataja: The Stories of Good Girls and Good Boys Susanna Hoikkala and Mirja Satka: Institutional Ethnography in the Analysis of Child Welfare Documents Johanna Moilanen: Children in Social Work Case Files: Some Methodological and Epistemological Reflections
Friday 11, 09.00-10.00 Keynote lecture Child faber: Exploring children s drawings as text, pretext, and context for knowledge production Professor Christine Marmé Thompson, School of Visual Arts at Penn State University Room: Main Building, C1-C2 Friday 11, 10.30-12 Paper sessions Children, school, family relations Aesthetic agency and knowledge of children II Reading, seeing and participating - methods for understanding children and childhood Children, environment and research Chair: Markku Leskinen Chair: Tarja Pääjoki Chair: Elina Pekkarinen Chair: Raija Raittila Room C3 Room C4 Room X231 Room X234 Louise Hill: Children as knowledge holders, seekers and sharers: Growing up with alcohol in the family Aishwarya Mahajan: A journey of knowledge and discovery- Children as knowledge producers in Western India Riikka Korkiamäki: The position of children and the production of knowledge in a mixed methods research discourses Maija-Riitta Jouhki: Childbirth at home the viewpoint of the newborn baby s siblings Ulve Kala-Arvisto: The life style of pupils with learning difficulties Lea Pennanen: From a story to a play: children as participants and partners in drama process Mirja Nieminen: Is it possible to recognize children s aesthetical literary experiences through their action? Johanna Olli: Videotaping disabled children and their nurses in hospital Harry Lunabba: Encountering boys' with ethnographic research Danielle van der Burgt: Children s maps as a method for analyzing neighbourhood Glenn Sweitzer: K-5 Recess: Teacher Time- Out or Missed Teaching Opportunity? Raija Raittila. With children in their lived place: children s action as research data
Friday 11, 13-14 (-16) Poster session Chair: Raili Välimaa, University of Jyväskylä FI University Main Building, Lobby Karin Cooper: People who I tried doing it to thought it was quite hard to answer (Sofia, 8 years): Kinship carers own children as co-producers of knowledge. Hanna Hakomäki: To promote children s knowledge in the development and research process of music therapy method called Storycomposing Patricia Giardiello: Doing research with young children, same or different? Jakub Kahul: Street children: Appropriate definitions as a prerequisite for effective interventions Ksenia Limanskaya: Children as a producer of knowledge and child protection
Friday 11, 14-16 Invited symposium + Paper sessions Invited symposium Theoretical and methodological challenges in childhood studies: human development, social inclusion, and practices of child welfare and child protection Paper session: Children as knowledge producers Paper session: Enhancing children s personal agency Organizer: Mirja Satka Chair: Aino Ritala-Koskinen Chair: Päivi Fadjukoff Chair: Paper session: Children as cultural producers: Critical perspectives from historic, new, and ephemeral media Room C4 Room X225 Room X234 Room: X232 Katia de Souza Amorim: Network of meanings perspective and its dialogue with social practices Barbro Johansson: Children as co-researchers of foodscapes Vilja Laaksonen: The development of interpersonal skills of under school-aged children: The review of multi-disciplinary Christopher Schulte Elina Pekkarinen: Conceptualizing Social Structures, Societal Reactions and Children's Positions: Empirical example of building a framework for knowledge production Comments: Prof. Pirjo Pölkki, University of Kuopio (Child welfare) Dr. Maarit Alasuutari, University of Jyväskylä (Early childhood education) Dr. Tarja Heino, National Institute for Health and Welfare (Social work) Gita Anand: Work OR School: Not always a Choice Anna-Maija Puroila: Children tell do we listen? Berry Mayall: Children's contributions to understanding their work during the second World War literature Jaakko Hilppö: Towards children s efficacious agency in formal and informal contexts Jenni Salminen: Descriptive case analysis of teaching practices in Finnish preschool classrooms: Teachers role in enhancing children s participation in varying classroom contexts Marissa McClure Dan Thompson
Friday 11, 16.30-18 Paper sessions Technology serving children's own knowledge Play and knowledge construction Cultures of care and education production and communication Chair: Leena Turja Chair: Maritta Hännikäinen Chair: Niina Rutanen Room C4 Room C3 Room X232 Jaakko Hilppö: Children as Video Researchers Jackie Marsh: Children as knowledge brokers of playground games and rhymes in a new media age care Liisa Karlsson: Children as knowledge producers through children s photographing and telling (cf. user s point of view) Leena Turja: Connecting Children - An International Exchange Project Enhancing Studies and Communications of Children Concerning Their Life in the Day-Care Centre Annikki Hakkarainen: Playworld - field for shared stories and knowledge construction Marleena Stolp: Doubling and Reliability of Children s Knowledge Niina Rutanen: Spaces for toddlers in the guidelines for early childhood education and Jonas Ruškus: The hierarchy of the purposes of pre-school and pre-primary education in Lithuania Eeva-Leena Onnismaa: What do the Early Childhood Education Policy Documents Tell about Childhood in Finland?
Saturday 12, 9.30-11 Paper sessions Innovative methods in childhood research Constructing meanings, motivations and shared understandings Chair: Eeva-Liisa Kronqvist Chair: Timo Harrikari Chair: Liisa Karlsson Room C3 Room C4 Room X232 Natalia Fernandes: Knowledge production about or with children?... Some portraits from the Portuguese academic research Amana Mattos: "Doing whatever I want": Researching the Meanings that Brazilian Children and Youngsters Have About Jessica Schwittek & Doris Bühler- Niederberger: Preschool children s lifeworlds in Kyrgyzstan - Practicing participatory research with 2-7 year olds in an intercultural approach Jakub Kahul: The need for more childcentred perspective in development interventions on the example of the street children project in Zambia Freedom Eija Pakarinen: Classroom organization and teacher stress predict learning motivation in kindergarten children Teemu Kauppi: Do students and their parents have a shared understanding of bullying at school? Lapset tiedon tuottajina - Children as knowledge producers II (Presentations in Finnish) Kristiina Eskelinen: Children as producers of photographic material Elina Viljamaa: Listening to children s rich telling -- Narrative encounters in home enviroment Taina Kyrönlampi-Kylmänen: Facing each other Investigating the experiences of children and their parents in the context of everyday life Saturday 12, 11.30 13, Keynote lecture The relevance of relevance. Social science and social practice in post-positivistic society Professor Pekka Sulkunen, University of Helsinki Invited comment by Professor Marketta Rajavaara, University of Helsinki Room: Main Bulding, C1-C2
SOCIAL PROGRAMME The social programme offers you opportunities to meet your colleagues, get acquainted with the beautiful campus area and visit some of the architectural and natural sights of Jyväskylä and Central Finland. Wednesday 9, at 19 21 Welcome reception University main building, lobby. You are invited to start the conference by meeting your colleagues and enjoying a glass of wine with some snacks and music. Thursday 10, at 17.30 18.30 Campus walk a guided tour through the campus. The tour will introduce you to the Seminaarinmäki campus area, its history starting from the 1860 s and buildings including Alvar Aalto s world famous architecture. The walking tour starts from the University Main building (lobby). Please sign in for the tour when registering for the conference at the conference info desk (University Main building, lobby)! Friday 11, at 20 22.30 Conference dinner in restaurant Vesilinna. Reservations have been made according to the information given on the online registration form and advance payments. Music performance by Kangas Family Ensemble vox Auratie. Saturday 12, at 13 13.30 Farewell University main building, lobby. A final get-together with a glass of wine and some snacks meet your colleagues and exchange conference experiences. Saturday 12 June at 14.30 (about) 18.30 Get acquainted with the architecture of Alvar Aalto or the natural surroundings of Central Finland by choosing one of the two optional excursions: I Alvar Aalto architectural tour Some of Alvar Aalto s best works are located in Jyväskylä; among these the University Main Building and the Säynätsalo Town Hall. Saturday s excursion will start with an introduction to Aalto s work at the Alvar Aalto Museum and include visits to Säynätsalo Town Hall, the Muuratsalo Experimental House and some early works in Jyväskylä.
Participants are recommended to participate on foot in a special Alvar Aalto campus tour on Thursday. II A trip to Leivonmäki national park. We will follow a nature trail in the beautiful and varying natural surroundings of Leivonmäki national park and enjoy refreshments around a camp fire. Please make sure that you are wearing comfortable shoes and weather-appropriate clothing. The bus for this trip will leave at 14.30 from the University (in front of the Main building). Tickets for both excursions will be sold at the info desk (University Main building, lobby) you can buy a ticket when registering for the conference or later by visiting the info desk. Please pay for the ticket in cash (euros).