Narrating Childhood with Children and Young People

1. Introduction: Narrating Contemporary Childhood; Lisa Moran, Kathy Reilly and Bernadine Brady.- Part 1. Narrations of Home, Care and Identity.- 2. Young People Narrating the Meaning of Homelessness and Home; Paula Mayock and Sarah Parker.- 3. The Experiences of Young Carers in Northern Ireland: Negotiating Pathways to a Positive Sense of Self-identity - Narratives of Resilience, Risk and identity; Marlene McGibbon.- 4. Narrating Childhood in the Present: Growing Sideways with Emily; Rachel Thomson.- Part 2. Recreations, Place and Community.- 5. Narratives of Recreation and Identity Development Among Muslim Teens; Orla McGarry.- 6. The Do-ers and the 'Do Nothings': (Non) Participation in Community, Recreation and Place among Young People in Manchester, UK; Aimee Harragan.- 7. Understanding Community, Culture and Recreation as Resilience Resources for Indigenous Young People; Darlene Wall, Linda Liebenberg, Janice Ikeda, Doreen Davis-Ward, and youth participants from Spaces & Places, Port Hope Simpson.- 8. Exploring Childhood in Ireland: Narrating the Places and Spaces of Everyday Life; Kathy Reilly and TJ Hughes.- Part 3. Narrative and Educational Spaces.- 9.  Queering Understandings of How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room; Jayne Osgood.- 10. Authoring Imaginative Selves Through Digital Narratives in the Science Classroom; Elizabeth M. Walsh.- 11. Narrating the Learning Ecosystem: Knowledge, Environment and Relationships for Participatory and Principled Design of Educational Technology for Childhood and Youth; Tony Hall, Cornelia Connolly, Gerry Mac Ruairc, Sally McHugh, Ann Marie Wade, Eílis Flanagan and Paul Flynn.- Part 4. Methods for Narrating Childhoods: Reflexivity, Environment and Biographies.- 12. "I'd Keep Them Tidy": Domesticity, Work and Nostalgia in Girls' Imagined Futures Described in Essays Written by 11-year-olds in 1969; Virginia Morrowand

Lisa Moran is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.