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Submission guidelines

Submission guidelines

Proposals are welcome for the series that align to our fairer society goal and help us to develop and grow childhood studies.

The series is particularly keen to explore multi-faceted aspects of children’s lives such as schooling, home lives, children’s rights, child protection, activism, and more.

To discuss a proposal, or for more interest in the series, please contact the Series Editor or Commissioning Editor via email:

Sam Frankel
King's University College, Western University, Canada
[email protected]

Katy Mathers
Senior Commissioning Editor, Emerald Publishing
[email protected]
 

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Editorial team

Editorial team

About the Editor

Series Editor

Sam Frankel PhD is Founder and CEO of Learning Allowed an organisation committed to the transformative power of learning to unlock individual agency.

Sams's recent roles include Associate Professor at King’s University College, Western University, Canada and Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has also held honorary research positions at Sheffield University and the University of Central Lancashire.

Sam has spent over 20 years working with schools, families and community groups in a range of educational settings across England and beyond, developing projects that challenge institutional assumptions by promoting children’s voices and enabling their participation.
 

Calls for submissions

Emerald Studies in Child Centred Practice seeks to reposition the place of childhood studies as a discipline by highlighting its social value and shaping a child-centred approach across the settings within which children live and experience their everyday lives.

Aims and scope

Emerald Studies in Child Centred Practice explores the application of theories from childhood studies in practice.

It highlights the place purpose and power of these theories to inform practice and seeks to shape a child-centred approach across the settings within which children live and experience their everyday lives – schools, families, the law, and the care system.

Uniquely, books in the series not only draw on academic insight but also include the perspectives of both practitioners and children. The series makes the case for the need for a shared dialogue as a foundation for re-imagining practice.

This series offers a new and valuable dimension to childhood studies with relevance for how wider society comes to engage with it. It offers a chance for childhood studies to increase their presence in society – to demonstrate how an awareness of children's agency and the constructed nature of society can positively influence discourse and debate – with the hope that this can increasingly shape policy and practice and add value to children’s everyday experiences.

This title supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals

As a leading social science publisher, we're passionate about leading change, and align everything we do with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our core area of focus is interdisciplinary research aligned with the SDGs, with these key goals in mind – Fairer society, Healthier lives, Responsible management, Quality education for all, and Sustainable structures and infrastructures – all of which are about creating real-world impact, at a time when it's needed most.

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