Workshops
Our international workshops are central to our aims at CARCYE, providing an opportunity for scholars to meet and share their research in relation to contemporary debates.
Learning the 'modern way': Anthropology and Schooling (2011)
The aim of this two-day event was to engage with and challenge the taken-for-granted ideologies and realities that underpin contemporary school education.
Childhood Working Group Seminar (2010)
This workshop was the inaugural meeting of the UK Childhood Working Group, a network of UK-based scholars who meet regularly to discuss and pursue collaborative research on issues related to childhood, youth and education.
Learning, Livelihoods and Social Mobility: Anthropological Perspectives on Formal and Informal Education (2009)
This two-day workshop, co-sponsored by C-FAR and the ESRC, focused on an anthropological exploration of the relationship between learning, education and social mobility.
Emerging perspectives on the anthropology of Childhood (2008)
This workshop explored current anthropological research on childhood with a view to disseminating recent ethnographic, methodological and theoretical developments in this rapidly evolving field of research.
Finding Out What Children Know: Innovations in Ethnographic Research Seminar Series (2004-2005)
This series of seminars and workshops aimed to explore and develop field research methods suitable for use with children and assess existing methods for finding out children’s psycho-social condition.
Contemporary Methods for Research with Children (2003)
This one day inter-disciplinary workshop explored contemporary methodological debates in the domain of social studies of childhood and including participatory approaches.
Children in their Places (2001)
This international conference brought together 250 delegates from 40 countries to discuss the rapidly expanding field of enquiry into childhood.




