The Children, Families and Schools (CFS) Concentration Now Accepting Applications

The Children, Families and Schools (CFS) concentration in the Department of Teacher

Education and Curriculum Studies at University of Massachusetts at Amherst is now

accepting applications for Fall 2014 admission to our doctoral program.

The CFS doctoral program (http://www.umass.edu/education/departments/tecs/childfamilies-

schools) is designed to address the growing concern for meeting the educational

and developmental needs of children in the varied settings in which learning and

development occur. Doctoral students in our program can expect dynamic and varied

interdisciplinary coursework including but not limited to: human development, children

and childhood(s), families and communities, gender and childhood, the development of

mathematical ideas, teacher preparation and development in early childhood and

elementary school, childhood and disability, and general curriculum in early education

and care settings. Our faculty examine these issues from disciplinary perspectives ranging

from the developmental to anthropological and beyond, and encourage students to read

widely. Students work closely with their faculty advisor to craft a unique program of

study, taking advantage of the many opportunities for independent study, funded research

positions and teaching assistantships. The doctoral program offers robust preparation for

research and scholarship applicable to a range of academic, private sector and public

policy careers. Our department is home to multiple teacher education programs, a premier

education journal and funded research projects, so the array of possible professional

development experiences awaiting students are many. Our program is aligned with

NAEYC standards.

We invite you to be a part of our doctoral program. Applications are now being

accepted for the Fall 2014. Deadline for applications is January 15th, 2014. Funding in the

form of fellowships, scholarships and teaching or research assistantships is available on a

competitive basis for qualified applicants. Visit the Graduate Admissions website

http://www.umass.edu/gradschool/ for details about the application process or contact Dr.

Sally Galman, Associate Professor and CFS program coordinator

(sally@educ.umass.edu). We look forward to hearing from you.

October 11: International Day of the Girl Child

Friday, October 11, 2013 is International Day of the Girl Child

On December 19, 2011, United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world.

Girls face discrimination and violence every day across the world. The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights.

Come honor this special day with two great events

Dr. Laura Lovett

Associate Professor in the Department of History

Room 228 Furculo Hall

10 - 11 a.m.

Professor Lovett specializes in twentieth century U.S. women's history with special interests in the histories of childhood, youth movements, and the family. She explores generational dialogues concerning gender roles and the place of children in the women's movement in a new collection of history written for the public, When We Were Free To Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made. Her first book revealed the unacknowledged legacy of eugenics in a range of reforms regarding populism, irrigation, conservation, and housing, which indirectly or directly promoted selective reproduction. Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2007. She is currently researching the intersection of eugenics and housing reform and their resulting influence on discriminatory housing policies in the United States and Europe. From 2008 to 2011, she was the Director of the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. She is also a founding co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

‘Born Into Brothels’

Mark’s Meadow Auditorium

2 p.m.

Born Into Brothels is a documentary about the inspiring non-profit foundation Kids With Cameras, which teaches photography skills to children in marginalized communities. In 1998, New York-based photographer Zana Briski started photographing prostitutes in the red-light district of Calcutta. She eventually developed a relationship with their children, who were fascinated by her equipment.

After several years of learning in workshops with Briski, the kids created their own photographs with point-and-shoot 35 mm cameras. Their images capture the intimacy and color of everyday life in the overpopulated sections of Calcutta. Proceeds from the sale of the children's photographs go to fund their future education. Directed by Briski and filmmaker Ross Kauffman, Born Into Brothels was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the documentary competition.


Sponsored by the Children, Families, and Schools Concentration of the College of Education, UMass Amherst

For questions, contact Dr. Sally Campbell Galman at sally@educ.umass.edu

Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series: The Role of Parents in Supporting their Children's Achievements

Jacquelynne Eccles, Ph.D.   McKeachie-Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Education, Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Over the past 30 years, Dr. Eccles has conducted research on a wide variety of topics including gender-role socialization, teacher expectancies, classroom influences on student motivation, and social development in the family and school context. Dr. Eccles has contributed to the field of child psychology throughout her career. In the 1990s, she served as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate at the National Science Foundation, and Chair of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood. She was the Associate Editor of the journal Child Development and editor of the Journal for Research on Adolescence. She was also the past president of the Society for Research on Adolescence, has held leadership roles at the American Psychological Association, and has and has served on the faculty at Smith College, the University of Colorado, and the University of Michigan. Her work has been honored by several prestigious awards including the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Finally, she is a member of the National Academy of Education a World Scholar at the University of London, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany. This lecture is sponsored by Center for Research on Families' Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series. The Center for Research on Families (CRF) is an endowed interdisciplinary research center in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  The Tay Gavin Erickson Lectures Series brings internationally recognized speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. The lecture series began in 1999 through an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Psychology Department Research Mentoring Group Speaker Series which is supported by the UMass Amherst Center for Teaching & Faculty Development's Mutual Mentoring Initiative, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Fortnightly Lunch Series: Dr. Aline Gubrium

The Children, Families, and Schools Concentration of the College of Education

proudly present

The Fortnightly Lunch Series

Please join us for

“WOAA!: Women Organizing Across Ages for Justice through Participatory Visual Media Making"

Wednesday, November 6

11a.m. – 12 p.m.

Furculo Hall, Room 22

   

Aline C. Gubrium, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Education

Dr. Gubrium’s research uses participatory, digital, visual, and narrative methods to study the sexual and reproductive health knowledge and decision-making of marginalized women and youth. As a major methodological innovation, she uses digital storytelling to engage research participants in reflecting on sexuality, reproductive health, and related aspects of lived experience. From early research with African-American women living in a southern rural community, to work with women using Depo-Provera contraception and more recent projects working with Latino/a youth to address barriers to sexual communication and sexuality education, the driving question across the board is how the participants view their sexual and reproductive health experiences, in particular, how they make sense of, respond to, and confront the many influences that shape their sexuality.