Event: Reach Online Mini Conference: : ‘Towards a Democratic Early Childhood Pedagogy’

Hosted by: The Centre for Research in Early Childhood (REACH)
Join us online for a day of discussion, reflection and inspiration on transforming early childhood education and care.

Keynote speakers:
Dr. Mathias Urban, Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education, and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC) at Dublin City University, Ireland,
‘Local, global, systemic? Selected perspectives on current international developments in early childhood education and care in critical times’
Dr. Anna Kirova, Killam Professor of Early Childhood Education, Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta, Canada,
‘Becoming an Agent of Change: Early Childhood Education’s Understanding and Supporting Children’s Right to be Different’

Thematic breakout sessions will cover a range of topics including:

• a loving pedagogy
• posthuman perspectives
• creative knowledge makingdhchildren’s voices/participation
• arts-methodologies in research with children
• play
• cultural capital
  and more

Free to attend but please register (link below) for planning purposes
Registration: Website Link
Contact: reach@bathspa.ac.uk