CCYSC Awaaz The Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective

प्रयत्न एक आदिवासी युवा समूह है जिसने भारत में पश्चिम बंगाल के जलपाईगुड़ी के चाय बागान क्षेत्र में शिक्षा, सामाजिक जागरूकता और अपने समुदाय के सशक्तिकरण की दिशा में 10 वर्षों से अधिक समय तक काम किया है। वे छात्रों को उच्च अध्ययन के लिए सलाह देते हैं और तैयार करते हैं एवं बुजुर्गों तक मदद पहुंचते हैं। इसके अलावा अन्य कार्यक्रमों जैसे कि, यौन शोषण के शिकार लोगों का समर्थन करते हैं और यहां तक कि स्थानीय सफाई अभियान भी चलाते हैं। यह एक इंटरव्यू (साक्षात्कार) है जो ज्योति के द्वारा प्रयातन के तीन सदस्यों के साथ आयोजित किया गया है; फुलमोनी, निकिता और सुजीत जहाँ वे अपने समूह के गठन एवं उनके द्वारा संचालित कार्यक्रमों, उनके समुदाय के सामाजिक विकास के प्रति उनकी प्रतिबद्धता के साथ-साथ COVID-19 महामारी के दौरान उनके समुदाय और क्षेत्र पर पड़ने वाले प्रभाव के बारे में चर्चा करते हैं।

साक्षात्कारकर्ता:

ज्योति अंबेडकर यूनिवर्सिटी दिल्ली के स्कूल ऑफ एजुकेशन स्टडीज में मास्टर ऑफ एजुकेशन की छात्रा हैं। उनकी राजनीति विज्ञान की पृष्ठभूमि है और शिक्षण के साथ-साथ गायन और नृत्य में भी उनकी रुचि है।

प्रयत्न सदस्य:

फुलमोनी मुंडा जलपाईगुड़ी के इंडोंग चाय बागानों से आती हैं और वर्तमान में आईआईटी गांधीनगर में  Society and Culture (समाज और संस्कृति) में स्नातकोत्तर कर रही हैं।

निकिता चिकबरैक जलपाईगुड़ी के आईभील चाय बागान से हैं और वर्तमान में टाटा इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ सोशल साइंसेज, मुंबई से शिक्षा में स्नातकोत्तर कर रही हैं।

सुजीत बारला वर्तमान में अम्बेडकर विश्वविद्यालय दिल्ली से शिक्षा में स्नातकोत्तर कर रहे हैं और जलपाईगुड़ी के बटाबारी चाय बागान से हैं।

प्रयत्न से जुडें: prayatn.official@gmail.com

संपादक: वेदा गोपाल (छात्र, स्कूल ऑफ एजुकेशन स्टडीज, अम्बेडकर विश्वव

Seran Demiral interviews Spyros Spyrou one more time shifting the conversation this time from the politics of childhood to the challenges and opportunities of participation practices. While Demiral questions possibilities of researching with children and the potential of their becoming primary researchers, Spyrou brings in critical perspectives on methodology in childhood studies related to access to participation, the diverse capabilities of research subjects and the different ways through which to reveal their experiences. This conversation about the role of method in research with children explores the intricacies of listening to children’s voices and ways of addressing the limitations of verbal communication.



Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology at European University Cyprus. His research interests include children’s identities as they intersect with nationalism and questions of borders in conflict societies and children’s role as political actors in the context of climate change activism. Over the years, he has also explored questions related to children and immigration, poverty, social exclusion and single-parenthood as well as constructions of motherhood and babyhood. He has an ongoing interest in children’s participation in research and the ethics and politics of knowledge production in childhood studies. Spyros is the author of Disclosing Childhoods: Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies and co-editor of Reimagining Childhood Studies and Children and Borders. He is also co-editor of the journal Childhood (Sage) and a co-editor of the book series Studies in Childhood and Youth (Palgrave).

Seran Demiral is a children’s literature and sci-fi writer from Istanbul. She studied the subjectivities of children through their interaction with digital technologies for her PhD in Sociology by focusing on changing childhood experiences within online environments. She is also a P4C (Philosophy for Children/Communities) trainer and part-time lecturer at Boğaziçi University, Primary Education. As a teenager, Demiral published fantasy novels. After she graduated from the architecture department, she began to write for adolescents. Demiral also published a science-fiction book and many stories in anthologies and magazines. Her first non-fiction work, Living Alternative Lives, is about Ursula Le Guin’s literary works. Demiral continues to work on her novels, children’s books and plays.



Edited by Veda Gopala (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

In this episode, Marina Cartier interviews Dr Clémentine Beauvais about translation and childhood studies. The discussion is about Dr Clémentine Beauvais' research on the educational use of translation in the classroom through literary translation workshops. Dr Clémentine Beauvais explains to us the principles and organisation of this workshop and her particular interest and focuses on literary and aesthetic skills that emerge during these literary translation exercises. She also shares what are the data and findings of her research. The conversation also addresses what is translation and the specificities of the translation for children and its theorization in the academic field.



Dr Clémentine Beauvais is a senior lecturer in education at the University of York. Her research interests are childhood studies, translation in education, creative writing, and particularly children’s literature. She is also a Children’s book author and translator from English to French

Marina Cartier is a PhD student at the University of York in the Department of Education. Her research subject is about the children’s responses to translated humorous picturebooks.



This episode was edited by Riya Kwattra

Music: Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

In India, as with many other nations, sexuality education is fairly limited. As a result, many individuals are left with a lot of unanswered questions which cause problems once they mature and become sexually active. So, in this episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Ayushi Misra, a masters student at Ambedkar University Delhi, and Ramya Anand, a senior  manager at TARSHI, discuss the importance of providing a comprehensive sexuality education to children and young adults.



TARSHI is a Delhi-based non-government organization that supports and enables people's control and agency over their sexual and reproductive health and well-being through information dissemination, knowledge and perspective building, within a human rights framework.

Ayushi is pursuing a Masters in Education from Ambedkar University Delhi. She is currently invested in understanding adolescent psychology with a special  focus on curriculum design, sexuality education, and inclusive education for the mentally disabled.



Edited by Veda Gopala (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music: Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

Yamila Rodríguez and Seran Demiral interview Basia Vucic on children's literature, democratic education and how the child impacts and changes the political circumstances around for the final episode of this series* through a frame of Janusz Korczak's famous novel for children: King Matt the First. On the one hand, the conversation investigates the functions of literature and Korczak's developing strategies as a fiction writer in addition to being an educator and child rights defender; on the other hand, Vucic, Rodríguez and Demiral try to understand children's positioning in society by playing games and "propagating" their stories to re-make the politics throughout history. 

According to an ancient pre-Socratic quote, "Time is a child playing, moving pessoi (pieces). The Kingdom belongs to the child." This episode, The Kingdom is a Game, is an initiative to give the child credit for reconstructing society.

*The previous episodes are The Born Criminal, which is about the good or evil nature of the child in the history of childhood, and Educating the Educator on Janusz Korczak's experiences with -and against- child-centred approaches and "Praeternatural Pedagogy" concept, developed by Vucic.



Basia Vucic is an expert on the philosophy of education -and especially on JK educational philosophy- from UCL, London (UK). Invited as a 2019 visiting fellow to the UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, the scope of her research at UCL includes the hidden history of the child rights movement, political theory, and democratic education.

Yamila Rodríguez, Lawyer & Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Law, University of Buenos Aires, researches the extension of the international obligation of the state to ensure children's rights to participation and access to justice in the criminal justice system, focusing on children who are victims and witnesses of crimes with her academic training and career as a civil servant at a Criminal Court in Buenos Aires, where she worked for over ten years.

Seran Demiral is a children’s literature and sci-fi writer from Istanbul. She studied the subjectivities of children through their interaction with digital technologies for her Ph.D in Sociology by focusing on changing childhood experiences. She is also a P4C (Philosophy for Children) trainer, and teaches digital childhoods, children's literature, creative writing and sociology at various universities as a part-time lecturer. 

 

Edited by Veda Gopala

Music: Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

This podcast features a conversation with Dr Peggy Froerer (Reader, Anthropology) and Dr Gunjan Wadhwa (ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Education), Brunel University London. It discusses Dr Froerer's work with the historically marginalised Adivasi communities in rural parts of Central India (Chhattisgarh) with a particular focus on young people's engagements with education and its entanglements with work and livelihoods. Dr Froerer critically highlights the continuities and tensions between the global discourses of development and modernity and the local lived realities of the Adivasis, and the impacts of this on young people's aspirations. The conversation brings out the methodological and theoretical challenges of doing research in rural contexts, working with marginalised social groups and undoing the dominant frameworks. Dr Froerer emphasises paying attention to the context to understand intersections of religion, ethnicity and gender in relation to her work, along with the work of the state in the current socio-political conditions.​



Dr Peggy Froerer is Reader in Anthropology at Brunel University London and author of Religious Division and Social Conflict. She is currently working on her second book, which considers how marginalized young people’s differentiated engagement with school education articulates with their livelihood options and aspirations for a better future. Peggy is also co-Investigator on a collaborative, multi-regional research project (ESRC-DfID, 2016-2018) which examines education systems, aspiration and learning outcomes in remote rural areas of India, Lesotho and Laos. She has directed an ethnographic film (Village Lives, Distant Powers; produced by Margaret Dickinson), which is based on her research on development, the state and corruption in central India.

Dr Gunjan Wadhwa is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Education at Brunel University London on 'Rural youth identities in India'. Her research troubles the dominant discursive strains that produce the post-colonial nation-state and citizen, and through this position marginalised groups like the Adivasis and rural youth in opposition to ideas of the ‘modern’. Gunjan's recent publications include Ethics of Positionality in Capturing Adivasi Youth ‘Voices’ in a Village Community in India (Ethics and Integrity in Research with Children and Young People, 2021) and (Un)Doing Rights: Adivasi participation in governance discourses in an area of civil unrest in India (The International Journal of Human Rights, 25:7, 2021).



Edited by Yashita Jain

Music: Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC