Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity 9

Welcome to the 2009 CEIEC Annual International Conference home page.

We hope you can join us for the 2009 conference from Thursday 19 November - Saturday 21 November 2009 at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Download a conference flyer here.

Keynote Presenters

• Associate Professor Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Stockholm University, Sweden
  Title: What is an ethics of immanence and potentialities for early childhood education?
• Mercy M. Musomi, Executive Director of Child Girl Network, Kenya
  Title: Legal, legislative and policy frameworks that relate to violence against children with emphasis on the girl child - Kenya scenario
• Professor Patricia G Ramsey, Mount Holyoke College, USA
  Title: Economic and Environmental Equity for Young Children
• Professor Helen Penn, University of East London, UK
  Title: Overcoming Inequality; The rights of the poorest children
• Geraldine Atkinson, Deputy Chairperson (Early Childhood) for the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care & President of the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc, Australia

  Title: Strong in culture and community: An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approach to caring for children and families

Conference Scope

We invite seminars, colloquia, workshops, learning circles and posters that explore the issues and questions that address the broad conference themes of the place of children's rights, human rights and equity throughout the early childhood and children's services field. Papers that explore these themes as they apply to pedagogies, practices, programs, policies, theories and research will be especially welcomed.

We invite papers that share stories of hope, challenge and/or change in relation to these themes and that inspire others to work for change within their areas of responsibility in children's services and early childhood.

The conference attracts a diverse international audience and includes practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, trainers, children's advocates and activists.

For information on the 2008 CEIEC conference please download the post-conference report here.

The CEIEC wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the following sponsors of the 9th Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity Conference: