38th Annual NCCCC Conference Innovation Station |
| Date: | April 7 2010 -- April 10 2010 | | Place: |
Orlando, Florida USA |
| Sponsored by: | NCCCC |
| Description: | NCCCC workshops focus on innovative early childhood issues. Tracts and topics include, but are not limited to: New and Veteran Director Topics, Campus Child Care Connections or Collaborations to support, Programs, Personnel. |
| Contact information: | Pamela Pallas-352-392-2330, NCCCC-1-877-736-6222 |
| Email: | ppallas@ufl.edu |
| Event Web Site: | www.campuschildren.org/conference/2010/rfp.pdf |
2010 School Building Expo |
| Date: | May 10 2010 -- May 13 2010 | | Place: |
Chicago Illinois, USA |
| Sponsored by: | American Institute of Architects |
| Description: | The 2010 School Building Expo will offer over 15 concurrent sessions that highlight the top professionals that are shaping the future of education design, build and construction. The sessions should focus on furthering the knowledge of professionals associated with education and educational facilities.
SBX is also open to different, out of the box topics to be presented in sessions. We strongly encourage presentations that have a take home value and are interactive - leaving the attendee with a feeling of something learned from the session.
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| Contact information: | 203-371-6322 |
| Email: | jenabeth@jdevents.com. |
| Event Web Site: | http://www.schoolbuildingexpo.com/tospeak.asp |
Institute on Creating Sustainable Environments for Children |
| Date: | June 10 2010 -- June 11 2010 | | Place: |
Kansas, Missouri |
| Sponsored by: | The White Hutchinson Leisure and Learning Group |
| Description: | The pre-conference day will include visits to sustainable projects, a children's garden and other Kansas City locations. At the conference participants will learn the basic principles of planning child care, early education, Head Start and Early Head Start environments that meet children's needs and protect our environment. Topics include sustainable design practices, green building materials, choosing green suppliers, green cleaning/choosing non-toxic toys, resource on sustainable environments. Participants will learn how to design and renovate the outdoor play environment using nature as the play element. The emphasis will be on creating interesting and high quality outdoor environments. Topics include why children need nature, resources for designing naturalized spaces, CPSC, ADA, and ASTM standards in naturalized spaces, involving teachers and children in the design process, resources on nature. |
| Contact information: | Vicki L. Stoecklin
White Hutchinson Leisure and Learning Group
4036 Baltimore Kansas City, Mo 64111
(816) 931-1040 ext. 102 |
| Event Web Site: | www.whitehutchinson.com/children/sustainableinstitute.shtml |
1st Global Conference on Childhood |
| Date: | July 3 2010 -- July 5 2010 | | Place: |
Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Sponsored by: | Mansfield College |
| Description: | This inter-diciplinary and multi-diciplinary conference project seeks to investigate and explore all aspects of childhood. The period of life prior to adulthood is one of dramatic change and development of physical, intellectual, psychological, and many other types of characteristics. The nature of childhood and its significance as a separate phase of life, however, is viewed quite differently in different cultures and in different historical eras. This conference will look at all aspects of the experience of childhood as well as the social and cultural perceptions of children and childhood. We encourage submissions on any theme to do with the nature of childhood, including, but not limited to the ones listed below.
1. Definitions of Childhood
~ How has the concept of childhood developed over
time?
~ How is childhood viewed differently across
different cultures and eras?
~ What are the boundaries of childhood? (Are
children made to grow up too fast? Are mature
people infantilized by definitions of the
boundaries of childhood?)
~ Is 'childhood' a singular category or is it
composed of quite distinct multiple categories?
2. Childhood and Development
~ What are the important aspects of physical,
psychological, emotional, intellectual, moral,
social, etc. development in childhood?
~ How do institutions (like schools, medical
centres, and even legal systems) effectively
nurture the unique developmental needs of children?
~ How has our understanding of childhood as a
period of development changed over time? Are there
ways we are still getting it significantly wrong?
3. Children and Relationships
~ What are the dynamics of children's
relationships with their family, peers, and their
community?
~ How are children's social relationships either
experienced positively or negatively?
~ What are the dynamics of children's
relationships with social institutions (like
schools and religious organizations) ?
~ What is the nature of children's relationships
with animals?
4. Perceptions and Depictions of Childhood
~ How do adults perceive children and childhood?
How do they perceive the capabilities,
responsibilities, and privileges of childhood?
~ How do they perceive their own experiences of
childhood? (Nostalgia? Embarrassment? Amusement?)
~ How do children perceive themselves?
~ How are children and childhood depicted in media
such as art, literature, film, television,
advertising, etc.?
5. Other Issues of Childhood
~ Children and education: What issues are the
concerning how children are educated?
~ Children and leisure: How is involvement in
recreational activities (including sports) either
beneficial or harmful to children?
~ Children and the law: Does the criminal justice
system effectively deal with children both as
victims of crime and as perpetrators of crime?
~ Children and rights: What rights do children
have in virtue of being children? To what extent
must the choices of children be respected?
~ Children and gender: How are children socialized
into gender-specific roles? What are the issues and concerns connected
to how children form gender and sexual identities?
~ What is the nature of children's relationship to
the world of work?
The Steering Group welcomes the submission of
pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 15th January 2010. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by Friday 28th May 2010.
300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this
order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Joint Organising Chairs:
David White
Department of Philosophy,
University of Calgary,
Canada
E-mail: dmw@inter-disciplin ary.net
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary. Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: child@inter- disciplinary. net
The conference is part of the Probing the
Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard
copy volume(s) |
| Contact information: | For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter- disciplinary. net/probing- the-boundaries/ persons/childhoo d/
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter- disciplinary. net/probing- the-boundaries/ persons/childhoo d/call-for- papers/ |
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The Many Faces of Advocacy |
| Date: | November 18 2010 -- November 18 2010 | | Place: |
Orlando Florida, USA |
| Sponsored by: | NCCCC |
| Description: | 1-4 pm
Helen Blank, Director of Child Care at the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), works to expand support for positive early care and education experiences for children, especially low-income children. She proceeded to lead a largely successful campaign to convince the Bush administration to issue regulations for the new program that will allow states to use the new federal funds in a manner that promotes the best interests of children. She also led an effort to improve the child care provision of the welfare act and developed a guide to assist states in implementing the provisions. She has worked for nearly two decades to ensure that the Head Start program was not only expanded to serve more children, but also maintained its focus on community based, high quality, comprehensive services to children. |
| Contact information: | Contact Information:1-877-736-6222
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| Email: | info@campuschildren.org |
| Event Web Site: | www.campuschildren.org |
VIII International Congress on the Development of Educational Spaces |
| Date: | November 25 2010 -- November 27 2009 | | Place: |
Durango, Mexico |
| Sponsored by: | Instituto Nacional de la Infraestructura Física Educativa (INIFED, Educational Facilities National Institute) |
| Description: | Topics this year will be innovation in learning environments, evaluating and achieving quality, safety and security, and private public partnerships. |
| Contact information: | Carlos Bocanegra |
| Email: | congreso@capfce.gob.mx |
| Event Web Site: | Website: http://www.edfacilities.org/cal/index.cfm |
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