Professor Carrie Paechter's lectures at the Institute of Intercultural Psychology and Education

Professor Carrie Paechter is Director of the Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests include gender, power and knowledge, how children construct and understand their identities, and online research methodologies. She is particularly interested in children and young people's embodied identities and how children are understood by themselves and other actors in different social worlds, including the school, the home and the peer group.

LGBTQI+ parented families and schools - 2nd of April 14.00-15.30 KAZY 203.
In this session, Professor Paechter will talk about her recent research into how LGBTQI+ parented families interact with their children’s schools. She will focus on what the parents and children from the families she researched said about how the schools dealt with having LGBTQI+ parented families in their communities, and what they think schools should do to be more inclusive.
Her most recent book, LGBTQI-parented Families and Schools: visibility, representation, and pride is co-written with Anna Carlile and published by Routledge.

Being boys, being girls: Learning to be ourselves in communities and practice - 3rd of April 14.00-15.30 KAZY 004.
In this session, Professor Paechter will discuss how children construct their identities within communities of practice in the home, the school and the peer group. She will give an overview of how identities are learned within communities of practice, and then will focus on how gender is learned in these communities. 
Her book Being Boys, Being Girls: Learning masculinities and femininities has been published in 2007 by Open University Press.