Date: 18-02-2019

NEWS – Unveiling Pre-conference Workshops #3 and #8

On 17 June 2019 we offer nine highly informative Pre-conference workshops. Are you coming to Leiden a day ahead of the conference? Here is your third guide to two of the full set of workshops.

 

#3 Pre-conference Workshop: Responsive care-giving through Gender Equity and Father and Male caregiver involvement
Offered by Oak Foundation and ISSA

 

Objectives
The focus of this pre-conference workshop is on sharing the latest research and existing conceptual frameworks and tools which foster the provision of nurturing care to children and promote fathers’ and other male caregivers’ responsive involvement in their children’s care and education. The objective is to stimulate discussion and share practical experience from innovative programs, approaches and policies in the field.

As a result of the workshop and the collaboration stemming from it, participants will be equipped with new knowledge, new approaches, and stronger capacity to promote gender equity and father/male care-giver involvement, to reduce violence against young children and support child development, learning and well-being.

The theme
The theme of this workshop was chosen in order to highlight the strong connection between gender equity, violence prevention and Early Childhood Development (ECD) and the need to support responsive care-giving through gender equity and increased father and male caregiver involvement.

Presenters
During interactives sessions there will be presentations made by researchers and policy makers with extensive experience in research on the topic and a strong theoretical foundation on existing frameworks and tools.


Full description and registration details
HERE

 

 

#8 Pre-conference Workshop: No more Special Needs inside a Regular Curriculum, but a Special Curriculum to Welcome Diversities
Offered by Bottega di Geppetto

 

Objectives
This one-day workshop aims to facilitate shared learning and exchange on note-worthy practices in the field of children’s inclusion inside a general framework of an open curriculum that takes into account and gives value to every and each individual as a different person, with the ultimate goal to support child development and well-being, and the affirmation of children’s rights.

The theme
The theme of this workshop was chosen in order to highlight the importance of developing a curriculum that considers children as active agents and original persons, in order to include children with special needs not with specific and special actions and strategies, but inside a framework that is always and already arranged to include each and every diversity and difference.

Presenters 
During interactive sessions there will be presentations made by Aldo Fortunati, President of Bottega di Geppetto, and Barbara Pagni, Scientific Coordinator of Bottega di Geppetto (both from Italy).


Full description and registration details
HERE