Longfellow Lecture: Ensuring the “Good Childhood” in a Rapidly Changing World: A Nordic-American Dialogue

Longfellow Lecture: Ensuring the “Good Childhood” in a Rapidly Changing World: A Nordic-American Dialogue

The first presentation by Dr. Denisha Jones, Esquire will provide an overview of how the good childhood is withheld from the lives of low-income children of color. This presentation will explore potential policy solutions at the national and local level will be explored.

The following presentation by Dr. Judith T. Wagner, will act in conversation with the Jones’s talk, on the Nordic ideology known as The Good Childhood (en god barndom in Danish). The concept rests on these bedrock principles as they apply to children: rights, democracy, egalitarianism, emancipation, cooperation, and solidarity.

This event is free to attend. Register online at www.sarahlawrence.edu/cdi/public-events/longfellow-lecture.html