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Embracing Education Change
The Reggio Emilia Aotearoa New Zealand symposium ‘Embracing Educational Change’ will be hosted at AUT University’s North Shore Campus in April, 2010. The symposium offers an excellent opportunity to critically engage with ‘power of pedagogy and teaching in the early years’.
Feature presenters include Janet Robertson and Associate Professor Alma Fleet from Macquarie University. Sessions focus on a nexus of professional, political and pedagogical conversations intended to provoke meaningful application of a Reggio Emilia approach to early years education settings. Topics include:
The Gardenista: Exploration of thinking outside
Stories past, present and future from the outside
Unleashing potentials in play: Moving from ages and stages to equity and social justice and Social justice and equity: curriculum and beyond; and
The semiotics of early childhood environments
The symposium's organising group, Reggio Emilia Aotearoa New Zealand, was established in 2009. The group promotes critical and transformative provocations between teachers, academics, researchers, policy makers and the wider community.
The symposium runs from 9am, Friday the 16th to 3.30pm Saturday the 17th of April. Registration costs $365 for the two days. For more information go to www.reanz.org
EC-Menz 4th Annual Summit
AUT Akoranga Campus, AF Building, North Shore, Auckland
Saturday 13th February- 8.30am-6pm
Sunday 14th February- 9am-1pm
Only two per cent of the New Zealand ECE workforce are male - one of the lowest participation rates in the western world. So over 60 participants are coming together at AUT to share ideas and strategies on how to improve this statistic. EC Menz (men in early childhood) are hosting their 4th annual summit on Feb 13 and 14 at AUT's North Shore campus. Participants including Bryan Nelson from menteach.org (USA), the internationally recognised advocate for increasing male participation in the Early Education workforce, will address the summit sharing his ideas and strategies on promoting a career in early childhood education for men. The summit will include presentations on how men are portrayed in recruitment information, the importance of collaborative play for boys, and the experiences of men working in a Samoan Early Childhood Centre. Dr Sarah Farquhar, New Zealand's leading researcher on gender participation in the early childhood workforce, will also present a paper discussing the New Zealand context.
For an international perspective on the early childhood workforce, and what can be done to address gender inequity at a local level, come along to this summit. Registration and programme details are available at the EC-Menz website.
For further information contact:
Russell Ballantyne- EC-Menz President- 0274 162 344 or (03)470 1029 (wk) or (03)454 5381(hm)
Summer School 2010
Find out more about the School of Education Summer School Papers.Date for your 2010 diary
Research Committee Annual Conference:
Conversations about Research
The next School of Education Te kura Mātauranga Conference will be on 6 September 2010. For more information about the Conference in 2010 email: beverley.clark@aut.ac.nz
Find out more about preparing your conference presentation for publication.