The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce its 2010 Child and Youth Studies Institute and invites interested scholars to send applications for consideration for selection as laureates and resource persons in the session scheduled for 6 September - 1 October 2010. The Institute is an offshoot of the Child and Youth Studies programme and is designed to strengthen analytic capacity on all questions affecting children and youth in Africa and elsewhere in the world. The impetus for the introduction of the Institute
was strengthened by the critique emanating from African researchers of the content and context of the developmental crises facing the continent. In addition, the link between these problems and what is designed as an annual interdisciplinary forum where participants can reflect together on a specific aspect of the conditions of children and the youth in Africa provided further support for this kind of Institute. It is hoped that this Institute will contribute to the advancement of the frontiers of knowledge and policy.
Each session of the Institute is held over a period of four weeks under the leadership of a designated director. This year's Insitute, under the theme, The Place for Work in African Childhoods, is Directed by Prof. Michael Bourdillon of the University of Zimbabwe.
Details about the 2010 session can be downloaded in the Call for Applications.
Objectives
The main objectives of the Child and Youth Institute are to:
- encourage the sharing of experiences among researchers, activists and policy makers from different disciplines, methodological and conceptual orientations and geographical/linguistic zones over an extended period of time;
- promote and enhance a culture of democratic values that allows to effectively identify and tackle Children and Youth issues confronting the African continent; and
- foster the participation of scholars in discussions and debates about the processes of child and youth development taking place in Africa.
Deadline
The deadline for submission of proposals is 31st March, 2010.
Contact
All applications or requests for further information should be addressed to:
CODESRIA Child and Youth Institute
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop x Canal IV
BP 3304, CP 18524,
Dakar, Senegal.
Tel: (221) 33 825 98 21/22/23
Fax: (221) 33 824 12 89.
Email: child.institute@codesria.sn
Website: http://www.codesria.org