This summer school is designed for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the social sciences in general and researchers in childhood studies/ children’s cultures in particular who either already employ narrative, co-creative and/or arts-based approaches in their research or seek to integrate them into their projects.
Overview
Through theoretical discussions and hands-on methodological exercises led by guest researchers, practitioners and lecturers, participants will engage with critical inquiries into how narrative, co-creative and/or arts-based approaches can serve as rigorous, reflexive, and ethically attuned methods of social scientific investigation.
What you will learn
By the end of the summer school, participants will have deepened their understanding of the transformative potential of narrative, co-creative and/or arts-based approaches in social science research. They will be encouraged to incorporate such approaches into their own work, not only as an expansion and, importantly a refinement, of methodological possibilities but as a responsibility and commitment to a more socially engaged and democratically accessible knowledge production.
Within the context of childhood studies, this relates to the quest to transform neoliberal, adult-centered, gendered and colonial thinking about childhood by scaling up intersectional and decolonial pedagogies. In doing so, this summer school aims to inspire new paradigms of interdisciplinary research that challenge conventional boundaries between scholarly research and societal engagement.
Dates and venue
June 24th – 27th.
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University (Belgium).
Registration deadline: 15 May 2025
For more information and how to register please visit this link: https://www.ugent.be/doctoralschool/en/doctoraltraining/courses/specialistcourses/critical_approaches_to_knowledge_production_with_children_through_narrative_cocreative_arts_based_research#Registration