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NCFR members form qualitative research commission

May 14, 2013

A qualitative research commission, growing out of the August 2012 Journal of Marriage and Family "Exchange on Qualitative Research," has been formed to assess the qualitative climate at JMF and encourage more qualitative submissions. You are invited to share your ideas.

Andrew Cherlin
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The deinstitutionalization of marriage

Andrew Cherlin, NCFR Fellow and noted sociologist and demographer from Johns Hopkins University, discusses his areas of expertise: marriage, cohabitation, and societal trends in family formation including "The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage," the name he coined for these trends.

Journal of Marriage and Family
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Call for papers — NCFR's Journal of Marriage and Family

March 12, 2013

The Journal of Marriage and Family invites submissions for its 2015 special issue on Theory and Methods, which  will focus on important recent theoretical and/or methodological developments in family research. 

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SRCD policy brief: New approaches to social, emotional learning in schools

March 12, 2013

Research cited in a policy brief from the Society for Research in Child Development suggests that schools should integrate social and emotional learning skills into daily work with students and daily school routines, both inside and outside of the classroom.

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Policy Brief: New approaches to social and emotional learning in schools

Research cited in a policy brief from the Society for Research in Child Development suggests that schools should integrate social and emotional learning skills into daily work with students and daily school routines, both inside and outside of the classroom.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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NICHD announces selected funding opportunities

March 05, 2013

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has requests for applications and program announcements in several areas.

Society for the Study of Human Development
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Call for submissions — Society for the Study of Human Development meeting

Deadline March 1, 2013
February 26, 2013

SSHD is an international U.S.-based multidisciplinary society with a central mission of taking an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to theories, research, and applications of Developmental Science across the life-span/life-course.

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Journals that publish qualitative research

Sometimes people ask which journals would publish qualitative research related to families. We asked this question at the QFRN Business Meeting in 2010, and got several ideas.

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Recommended readings for qualitative family researchers

The National Marriage Project
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Report: The State of Our Unions

A PDF of the 2012 "The State of Our Unions" report from The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia together with the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values.