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

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 perspectivies

Sharing stories of bridging divides for equity

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Pat Dudgeon

Associate Professor Linda Mitchell

Ms Zorica Trikic

Professor Valerie Walkerdine

2013 Conference Themes include Spaces and places for children’s own narratives in early childhood; Sharing research stories; Sharing narratives of dispossession and inequity; Practitioner narratives as praxis; Narratives to trouble everyday theories and practices; Narratives to Advocating critical and alternative perspectives on ECEC policy issues; Exploring challenges facing children, families, educators and communities in a changing world (examples of these challenges include, but are not limited, gender, culture, religion, linguistics, ability, global warming).

Call for papers is now open and deadline for submission is 28 June 2013.