Inclusive Education Seminar: Monday 23 November 2009
'Rethinking consent, assent and research with children with social, emotional and behavioural problems'
Dr Phil Jones and Emma Ramsden
Room: Blenheim Terrace SR (1.16)
Time: 16.00 -17.45
Additional Information
This presentation will include two perspectives. The first will draw on Phil Jones' recent 'Rethinking Childhood' (2009) and forthcoming 'Rethinking Children's Rights' (in press 2010) to question traditional approaches to thinking and practice concerning children, research, consent and assent. The second will be explore these issues within the context of children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties as co-researchers in relation to arts therapy work in a mainstream school. This perspective will draw on Emma Ramsden's current work in this area as part of her PhD.
Dr Phil Jones, Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Inclusion, has published widely on childhood and on the arts therapies. He is series editor of 'New Childhoods' (Continuum) and is currently completing ŒHow Do We See Children Now?¹ (Policy Press). His books have been translated and published in Chinese, Korean and Greek.
Emma Ramsden, Practitioner-Researcher works with children and adults in education and forensic psychiatry as a dramatherapist and has contributed to publications in the fields of arts therapies, psychotherapy and ethics.
She is currently completing a PhD on therapeutic work with children.