This morning Dr Belinda Downey and I recorded the Early Childhood Voices 2024 conference co-chairs welcome:
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| Dr Belinda Downey and Prof Sharynne McLeod - ECV2024 conference co-chairs |
BD: Greetings from the Wiradjuri lands of New South Wales, Australia. I'm Dr. Belinda Downey,
SM: and I'm Professor Sharynne McLeod.BD: We are the co-chairs of ECV2024 - the Early Childhood Voices Conference - at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
SM: The Early Childhood Voices Conference began in 2020 and this is our third conference.
It is a free online interdisciplinary conference focusing on children.
At ECV we share research about innovative methods, theories, and partnerships with children, families, and practitioners that support social justice during early childhood and within the early childhood sector.
BD: ECV 2024, is organised by the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
There are 3 ways to participate,
- Attend the conference online from the 25th to the 28th of November 2024 – watching the online recordings at times that suit you
- Join online yarning sessions to discuss topics relevant to the conference on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the week of the conference.
- Enjoy the Children Draw Playing Global Online Gallery – where approximately 200 children from across the world present their views of playing.
SM: We are so excited to welcome over a 1000 people from 54 countries who have registered to attend. We hope you enjoy listening to our 4 excellent keynote presentations and the 147 oral presentations across two streams:
- 71 papers in the “Early childhood voices: International interdisciplinary research” stream (71 abstracts)
- And 76 papers in the “Multilingual children's speech development” stream. These papers are presented in English and in many other languages including Kurdish, Jamaican, Icelandic, Danish, Turkish, and Swedish.
The peer reviewed abstracts are published online and in the Conference proceedings.
BD: Thank you to our amazing colleagues from Charles Sturt University for working hard on committees to ensure this conference is a success. We particularly thank our wonderful conference secretary, Dr Carolyn Gregoric.
We hope that by participating in ECV2024 you are inspired to listen to children’s voices, advocate for children and social justice during early childhood.
BD&SM: Welcome to our conference!