Early Childhood in Developing World Contexts
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Early Childhood in Developing World Contexts
30.03.2011
Deepening our understanding of children’s lives in developing country contexts will be the focus of a two-day international conference taking place in UCC on April 7th and 8th next. Researchers, policy makers and practitioners will come together to build on their experiences and knowledge and to contribute to current debates on appropriate polices and professional practices in early years care and education.

During the course of the conference current discourses on early childhood in global contexts will be examined and debated.  Attention will be drawn to a diversity of early childhood experiences in the majority world as well as to the importance of including local traditions, culture and knowledge in professional practice. In particular, the conference will explore the localised contexts of childhood and challenge the, largely, euro-centric perspective which current research and practice offers.

The conference is organised by Dr Deirdre Horgan, Dr Shirley Martin & Dr Jacqui O’Riordan of the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC.  It is jointly funded by Irish Aid Development Education Unit and the School of Applied Social Studies.

Speakers from Africa, India, Canada, New Zealand, the US, Spain, Belgium, England and Ireland will present on topics including education and equality in the early years, childhoods in transition, supporting communication, silent migrations, local perspectives in practice, child labour and education, inclusion and inspiration in the early years, among others.

Keynotes Speakers:
Professor Helen Penn, Professor of Early Childhood and Co-Director of the International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare (ICMEC) at the Cass School of Education, University of East London, UK "Does international aid work? The example of early childhood".
Dr Hasina Banu Ebrahim, Associate Professor for Early Childhood/Foundation Phase Studies at the University of Free State, South Africa "Tensions in incorporating global childhood into early childhood programmes: the case of South Africa"
Dr Karen Wells, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director International Childhood Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London "Children, conflict and migration – research project with unaccompanied asylum seekers in the UK and explore migration decisions and migration journeys of children and their families".
Dr Angela Veale, Lecturer, School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork "Returned mothers from fighting forces and their parents"
Dr Paromit Chakravarti, Joint Director, School of Women's Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, "Gendering the HIV and AIDS Discourse: of Mothers and Others"

For full programme visit:  http://www.ucc.ie/en/ecdconf/



 

 

 


 



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