The Canadian Association for Young Children (CAYC) exists to provide a critical voice on issues related to childhood and children. CAYC joins a multitude of voices and organizations in actively refusing decades of systemic injustice and oppressions that continue to operate on the lands now known as Canada. CAYC stands with the Black Lives Matter movement and with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, on whose lands the nation state of Canada is built. We recognize that children are not equally positioned, and many live precarious lives confronting racism and oppression. Acknowledging that we function within educational institutions that are built on systemic racism, CAYC unites with educators, caregivers, families, students, researchers, policy-makers, and others toward disrupting inequities.

Click the link below for the AGM documents

https://www.cayc.ca/content/agm-2020-documents

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

2020 Annual General Meeting - MAY 2 2020

Due to COVID-19, the 2020 AGM has moved to be a virtual meeting. We have not changed the date, but have changed the time to allow for coast to coast participation. If you wish to join the AGM, please email membership@cayc.ca and provide your name and email address so we can send you the details.

• 9:00 BC/ Yukon
• 10:00 AB/SK
• 11:00 MB
• 12:00 ON/QUE
• 1:00 Maritimes
• 1:30 NL

Notice of election:

We are looking for members to represent the following provinces:

• Quebec
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland & Labrador
• Prince Edward Island

If you are an interested member from these provinces, please contact Becky Kelley at membership@cayc.ca and include the following information by April 1, 2020:

• Name
• Email
• Province
• How long have you been a CAYC member?
• Why would you like to join the CAYC board?

GAKINA ABINOOJIIYAG

ALL OF THE CHILDREN

Canadian Association for Young Children (CAYC)

National Conference

April 30 - May 2 2020

 

 

Dear members of the CAYC community,

We would like to share with you exciting news about the CAYC journal.

Journal Name Change

In April 2016, the CAYC Board decided unanimously to change the name of the journal. Formerly titled Canadian Children: Journal of The Canadian Association for Young Children, the journal is now called: The Canadian Association for Young Children Journal of Childhood Studies.

The new title reflects contemporary changes in the conception of childhoods and its growing relation to a wider array of fields of studies and practices. This change also responds to, and opens up, questions about identities and belonging in light of the transient nature of contemporary childhoods, and the necessity to actively respond to histories, present and future, of indigenous childhoods.

Increase in Number of Issues

Over the past couple of years, with the support of a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the journal has grown in its scope, depth, and accessibility. Our goal is to publish four issues per year (an increase of two issues per year). To this end, we regularly put out calls for papers from researchers and practitioners. The Journal of Childhood Studies invites papers that explore childhoods through theory, research, and practice across diverse disciplines.  

Free Access

As one of the leading journals on the topic of childhood on the Canadian landscape, CAYC has committed to making The Journal of Childhood Studies freely accessible online.  In its new format, local and international early childhood practitioners, students, and researchers can access the journal on a regular to basis learn about and respond to alternative approaches and conceptualizations of childhood and its related practices. 

Please visit: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs to find out about the current and past issues, as well as to learn about the process of online submission of papers.