17th Annual RECE Conference – Pedagogies of Hope: Reconceptualizing Research, Policy & Practice in Early Childhood

22-25 June 2009 – Bethlehem, Israel

The 17th International Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Conference provides the international early childhood community with a forum for exploring Pedagogies of Hope. The 2009 conference theme invites engagement with the meanings of hope and pedagogy, and how these terms might be connected to thinking differently about and reconceptualizing early childhood. The theme's openness to interpretation encourages a wide range of discourses associated with early childhood education, with the common provocation to position discourse in terms of the lived experiences of children, families, and communities. In other words, the theme asks of us, what is our thinking, writing and talking for - and with - the being of people in whom our work is interested?

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