Honouring the Child, Honouring Equity: 12 Troubling truths - bridging divides for equity

We hope you can join us for the 2012 conference from Friday 16 November to Saturday 17 November 2012 at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Conference Themes and Aims

We invite seminars, colloquia, workshops and learning circles that explore the issues and questions that address the broad conference themes in 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.

2012 Conference Themes:

  • Tactics and strategies for change
  • Challenging power and knowledge
  • Querying communities
  • Valuing/validating diversity in practices and policies
  • Shifting and searching for theoretical possibilities and perspectives
  • Sharing stories of bridging divides for equity

We invite proposals that explore the following questions:

  • How can we trouble truths to honour equity?

  • What actions are we taking or might we take to explore bridging divides for equity?

  • What tactics and strategies for change have been explored?

  • How can we explore issues of challenging power and knowledge?

  • How can we query communities?

  • How can we value and/or validate diversity in practice and policies?

  • What has research and practice raised in the search for diverse theoretical possibilities and perspectives in honouring equity?

  • How can we share stories of bridging divides for equity?

The delegates - your audience
The conference is an annual international conference attended by academics, activists, professionals and policy makers. In 2011 the conference attracted delegates from countries including Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States of America. Some delegates return annually, some will be attending for the first time.

Review of Proposals

On the Wednesday 13th June 2012, Equity and Childhood Program staff will review all proposals submitted to the conference for presentation. Presenters will be notified of a decision regarding their submission on Friday 22nd June 2012 along with their presentation date and time.

Notes:

  1. All papers will be reviewed by at least 2 Equity and Childhood Program staff members. These reviews will be blind reviews.
  2. Where a conflict of interest is registered, reviews will be conducted by external reviewers who will be selected by the conference convenor.
  3. A third reviewer may be sought if there is not consensus about the initial review.
  4. The conference convenor will make the final decision about acceptance of papers.
  5. The conference convenor reserves the right to invite paper presentations and these will not be subject to the review process.
  6. We value contributions from first time presenters and practitioner researchers and will support strongly proposals from these groups by offering detailed and helpful feedback on proposals from these groups.

Review procedure:

  • Papers received
  • Acknowledgment of receipt of paper submision via email by conference committee by Friday 8 June 2012
  • Papers organised for distribution to reviewers with the review form and criteria for acceptance
  • Each paper to be reviewed by two reviewers against the criteria for acceptance
  • Reviewers complete the review form and forward to the conference convenor
  • Decision reached on 13th June 2012
  • Presenters notified of decision on 22nd June 2012

Criteria for acceptance:

  • Clear presentation of ideas
  • Sound rationale for the proposal
  • Related to conference themes
  • Follows submission format
  • Includes abstract

Submitting a Proposal

All intending presenters are required to:

Refer to review process for more details.

Registration for presenters

Presenters are expected to pay full registration as soon as their proposals are accepted (download a Conference Registration Form). Abstracts will be withdrawn from the conference program if registration and payment are not received within one month of proposal acceptance.

Mentors for 'novice' presenters

Are you a 'novice' presenter? Would you like a mentor to help with your proposal? Mentors can support 'novice' presenters in preparing a proposal, developing a paper and a presentation. Please email education-ceiec@unimelb.edu.au if you would like further information.

pdf: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec/conferences/conf12/index.html

Organisation: 
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Youth Research Centre
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Youth Research Centre
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Youth Research Centre
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Youth Research Centre
Link : 
http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec/conferences/conf12/index.html

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