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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We invite session proposals that challenge traditional assumptions about theory, research, policy and practice in early childhood education and care, caring work, and childhood studies, especially sessions that:

1. Describe practices built on reconceptualizing traditions, particularly work with children and adults in diverse settings;
2. Offer reconceptualizing and critical advocacy perspectives on policy issues;
3. Explore childhood in multiple contexts, including ways that globalization, increasing divisions between rich and poor, and diaspora are transforming the first years of life, child care and childhood(s), conceptualization of both education and theory as well as research, policy, and curriculum knowledge and pedagogical practice;
4. Demonstrate ways in which a weaving together of portraits of theoretical perspectives may provide different ways to understand issues, knowledge, policy, practice within early education and child care, childhood studies and social policy. There is a need for dialogue across approaches, and also a desire by many to illustrate ways in which new knowledge and practice can be understood differently through a variety of frameworks, traditions, paradigms, or “lens for looking and knowing.”
5. Proposals may be woven within, between, or across different traditions that include what some call positivist, post-positivist, interpretive or constructivist, critical, feminist, post-structural, and/or postcolonial theories, critical cultural and childhood studies, queer theories, decolonizing theory, research and methods and practices. Through new tapestries or weavings, we hope to expand the boundaries of knowledge, practice, policy, research and theory;
6. Proposals that speak across borders and boundaries of traditions and hierarchies, representing the complexity of theory/practice/research/policy conversations that are already occurring or might be occurring are very welcome.

We welcome and encourage a diversity of session formats. Re-imagining the presentation forms can encourage thinking in new directions. Alternative formats might include aesthetic or dialogic sessions, arts-based sessions (incorporating film, dance, poetry and/or visual representations), really interactive/ participatory sessions, literally hearing students'/children's voices, dialogues of on-going research.

We would like to encourage presenters/participants to move beyond the familiar.

Proposal submission DEADLINE: no later than Friday, February 15th
(Saturday, February 16th in New Zealand time zone).

1. Please submit your proposal on-line – link at the end of this page
2. Your name must appear on one proposal only.
3. Proposals must include the following:

• Names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail addresses of all presenters;
• Brief title, capturing the primary theme, concern, or topic of the session;
• Brief rationale explicating the theoretical grounding of the session, and its relevance to the interests of the conference;
• 1-2 paragraph description of the purpose and content of the session;
• Indication of session format (e.g. paper, workshop, panel, other);
• Indication of provisions for involving session participants
• 50 word abstract for inclusion in the conference program.

Proposals will be reviewed by an international program committee. You will be notified of the outcome no later than March 21, 2008.

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