Showing posts with label ECV2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ECV2020. Show all posts

May 29, 2024

JUST PUBLISHED - Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families, Professionals

Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families, Professionals 

Editors: Linda Mahony, Sharynne McLeod, Andi Salamon, Jenny Dwyer 

Publisher: Springer 

Publication date: 2024 

URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-56484-0

Springer's description of the book:

"Offers real life evidence-based examples and application to professional practice Brings together professionals across multiple disciplines from 17 countries Enacts the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

This revolutionary book explores theoretical and practical issues of listening to children, families, and professionals who advocate for and work with young children to promote social justice and improve their lives, and to ensure no one is left behind. Listening to children is explored across multiple disciplines internationally and highlights the practical application of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The work explores innovations, theories, and partnerships, and draws on the voices of children, families, early childhood educators, speech-language pathologists, and multidisciplinary teams from across 17 countries to provide a shared vision for equity, peace and justice for all while integrating social environmental, economic, and dimensions of sustainability. Topics include giving children a voice; methods for listening to and documenting young children's perspectives; listening to and working in partnership with families, educators, and professionals; and wellness and wellbeing of young children and their families across multiple dimensions."

This book was the result of collaboration and mentoring with members of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group (ECIR) after the Early Childhood Voices Conference 2020 (ECV2020). It has been an absolute pleasure working with my co-editors, the chapter authors who presented papers at ECV2020 and our reviewers.

December 14, 2023

Finishing a book: Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families and Professionals

Today I finished everything that needed to be done for the permissions and revised chapters  for our book that will be published by Springer titled "Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families and Professionals"

I haveco-edited the book with Linda Mahony, Andi Salamon and Jenny Dwyer and have co-authored chapters 1, 9, 10, 12, 16, and 18.

  1. Why the Voices of Young Children Matter -  Linda Mahony, Sharynne McLeod, Andi Salamon and Jenny Dwyer 
  2. Space, Voice, Audience, and Influence: The Lundy Model and Early Childhood - Carmel Ward and Laura Lundy Listening to Children in their Daily Context 
  3. Language and Life: Going into Space - Stephen Kemmis and Andi Salamon 
  4. Infant Emotional Capital Practices as Voice in Research and Pedagogy - Andi Salamon 
  5. Contributing to SDGs through Conceptual PlayWorlds: Changing the STEM Story for Children, Families and Teachers - Anne Suryani, Susan March, Marilyn Fleer and Prabhat Rai 
  6. Children’s Mathematical Graphics Illustrating Inner Voices: A Literature Review - Jenny Dwyer, Amy MacDonald and Shukla Sikder 
  7. Early Childhood Friendships as a Significant Value of Education for Sustainability: The Voices of Young Children and Educators - Tamara Pribišev Beleslin and Sanja Partalo 
  8. “Ears to Listen so I can Hear”: A Holistic Self-Report Tool of Children’s Listening at Preschool - Lysa Dealtry and Laura McFarland 
  9. Jamaican Children’s Drawings of Talking in Jamaican Creole and English - Karla Washington, Rachel Wright Karem, Corrine Macaluso, Cecilia Schwartz and Sharynne McLeod 
  10. Vietnamese-Australian Families: Children’s Language Competence and Home Language Maintenance - Van H. Tran, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Kate Margetson and Ben Phạm 
  11. Many Voices, Many Languages: Listening and Learning from South African Children - Michelle Pascoe, Mikateko Ndhambi, Olebeng Mahura, Nomfundo Peaceful Buthelezi, Nicole Husselmann and Babalwa Ludidi 
  12. When are Speech Sounds Learned and Why is this Important for Children to be Heard? - Sharynne McLeod, Kathryn Crowe and Jane McCormack
  13. Giving Voice to Young Children Navigating Complex Life Challenges through a Strengths Approach - Linda Mahony and Angela Fenton 
  14. After the Disaster: Facilitating Children to Talk of their Feelings and Experiences - Sarah Eagland, Michael Curtin and Tracey Parnell 
  15. Peep in the Pandemic: Peep Practitioners Listening to Parents and Families - Hannah Hale, Elspeth McCartney and Muriel MacKenzie Professionals Learning from Listening to Children 
  16. Sustainable Leadership Approaches to Retain Early Childhood Educators - Belinda Downey, Will Letts and Sharynne McLeod 
  17. Multimodal Analyses of Children’s Voices as a Means for Critical Teachers’ Education - Fernanda Liberali, Emilia Cipriano Sanches and Sandra Cavaletti Toquetão 
  18. Refusing to Silence Early Childhood Voices: The Establishment of the Early Childhood Voices Conference - Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Tamara Cumming and Belinda Downey

August 1, 2023

Submitted book: "Early childhood voices in the lives of children, families, and professionals"

On 30th June 2023 we submitted the following book for publication by Springer who have just advised us that it is currently under review. The book began after the successful Early Childhood Voices Conference (ECV2020). It has been an exciting collaboration as a result of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme. 

Book title: Early childhood voices in the lives of children, families, and professionals  

Series title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development 

Editors: Linda Mahony, Sharynne McLeod, Andi Salamon, Jenny Dwyer 

Table of Contents 

1 Why the Voices of Young Children Matter Linda Mahony, Sharynne McLeod, Andi Salamon and Jenny Dwyer 

2 Space, Voice, Audience, and Influence: The Lundy Model and Early Childhood Carmel Ward and Laura Lundy 

3 Language and Life: Going into Space Stephen Kemmis and Andi Salamon 

4 Infant Emotional Capital Practices as Voice in Research and Pedagogy Andi Salamon 

5 Contributing to SDGs through Conceptual PlayWorlds: Changing the STEM Story for Children, Families and Teachers Anne Suryani, Susan March, Marilyn Fleer and Prabhat Rai 

6 Children’s Mathematical Graphics Illustrating Inner Voices: A Literature Review Jenny Dwyer, Amy MacDonald and Shukla Sikder 

7 After the Disaster: Facilitating Children to Talk of their Feelings and Experiences Sarah Eagland, Michael Curtin and Tracey Parnell 

8 Giving Voice to Young Children Navigating Complex Life Challenges through a Strengths Approach Linda Mahony and Angela Fenton 

9 Sustainable Leadership Approaches to Retain Early Childhood Educators Belinda Downey, Will Letts and Sharynne McLeod 

10 Multimodal Analyses of Children’s Voices as a Means for Critical Teachers’ Education Fernanda Liberali, Emilia Cipriano Sanches and Sandra Cavaletti Toquetão 

11 Peep in the Pandemic: Peep Practitioners Listening to Parents and Families Hannah Hale, Elspeth McCartney and Muriel MacKenzie 

12 Early Childhood Friendships as a Significant Value of Education for Sustainability: The Voices of Young Children and Educators Tamara Pribišev Beleslin and Sanja Partalo 

13 “Ears to Listen so I can Hear”: A Holistic Self-Report Tool of Children’s Listening at Preschool Lysa Dealtry and Laura McFarland 

14 Jamaican Children’s Drawings of Talking in Jamaican Creole and English Karla Washington, Rachel Wright Karem, Corrine Macaluso, Cecilia Schwartz and Sharynne McLeod 

15 Vietnamese-Australian Families: Children’s Language Competence and Home Language Maintenance Van H. Tran, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Kate Margetson and Ben Phạm 

16 Many Voices, Many Languages: Listening and Learning from South African Children Michelle Pascoe, Mikateko Ndhambi, Olebeng Mahura, Nomfundo Peaceful Buthelezi, Nicole Husselmann and Babalwa Ludidi 

17 When are Speech Sounds Learned and Why is this Important for Children to be Heard? Sharynne McLeod, Kathryn Crowe and Jane McCormack 

18 Refusing to Silence Early Childhood Voices: The Establishment of the Early Childhood Voices Conference Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Tamara Cumming and Belinda Downey

The book includes the following international interdisciplinary contributors

  1. Sandra Cavaletti Toquetão Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 
  2. Emilia Cipriano Sanches Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 
  3. Kathryn Crowe University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 
  4. Tamara Cumming Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia 
  5. Michael Curtin Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia 
  6. Lysa Dealtry Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia 
  7. Belinda Downey Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 
  8. Jenny Dwyer Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 
  9. Sarah Eagland Royal Far West, Sydney, NSW, Australia 
  10. Angela Fenton Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia 
  11. Marilyn Fleer Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
  12. Carolyn Gregoric Charles Sturt University, Australia 
  13. Hannah Hale University of Stirling, Scotland, UK 
  14. Nicole Husselmann University of Cape Town, South Africa S
  15. tephen Kemmis Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia 
  16. Will Letts Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 
  17. Fernanda Liberali Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 
  18. Babalwa Ludidi University of Cape Town, South Africa 
  19. Laura Lundy Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland 
  20. Corrine Macaluso Butler Educational Service Center, USA 
  21. Muriel MacKenzie Stirling Council, Scotland, UK 
  22. Linda Mahony University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia 
  23. Olebeng Mahura Charles Sturt University, Australia 
  24. Susan March Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
  25. Elspeth McCartney University of Stirling, Scotland, UK 
  26. Jane McCormack Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, NSW, Australia 
  27. Amy MacDonald Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia 
  28. Laura McFarland The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
  29. Sharynne McLeod Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 
  30. Mikateko Ndhambi University of Cape Town, South Africa 
  31. Tracey Parnell Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia 
  32. Sanja Partalo University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 
  33. Michelle Pascoe University of Cape Town, South Africa 
  34. Nomfundo Peaceful Buthelezi University of Cape Town, South Africa 
  35. Ben Phạm Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam; Charles Sturt University, Australia 
  36. Tamara Pribišev Beleslin University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 
  37. Prabhat Rai Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
  38. Andi Salamon Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 
  39. Celia Schwartz Springfield City School District, USA 
  40. Shukla Sikder Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 
  41. Anne Suryani Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
  42. Van H. Tran Charles Sturt University, Australia 
  43. Sarah Verdon Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia 
  44. Carmel Ward Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 
  45. Karla Washington University of Toronto, Canada 
  46. Rachel Wright Karem Indiana University, USA

June 23, 2023

Early childhood voices: Children, families, professionals is almost finished

Early childhood voices: Children, families, professionals is almost finished and ready to send to Springer for publication.

We have 12 completed and copyedited chapters, 5 chapters with the copyeditor, one chapter and the front matter to be finalised. We are on track for submission by the end of June. Thank you Linda Mahony for your amazing organisation of this project. It has been a great project to pull together this truely international and interdisciplinary book with Linda, Andi Salamon and Jenny Dwyer. What a great outcome from our ECV2020 conference too. 

L. Mahony, S. McLeod, A. Salamon, & J. Dwyer (Eds.). Early childhood voices: Children, families, professionals. Springer.


May 9, 2023

Editors' meeting for our Early Childhood Voices chapter to be published by Springer

We had a great meeting as editors for our Early Childhood Voices chapter to be published by Springer. The book is due for submission 30th June, 2023

We have 19 chapters in the book. Ten chapters are currently being copyedited. The remainder are close to finalisation. It is looking great.

Andi Salamon, Sharynne McLeod, Linda Mahony, Jenny Dwyer


March 6, 2023

Early Childhood Voices book - Editorial meeting

The editorial team for Early Childhood Voices met for the first time in 2023. The book is due in June 2023. We have chapters from across the world - and almost all have been reviewed and many have been returned after review. It is going to be a great book.

Editors: Linda Mahony, Sharynne McLeod, Jenny Dwyer, Andi Salamon


July 18, 2022

Children's Acknowledgement of Country

Across Australia most meetings and formal events begin with an Acknowledgement of Country to acknowledge the indigenous custodians of the lands. Young children also acknowledge country. 

March 10, 2021

Planning an edited book

Over the past few months a team from the Early Childhood Research Group have been planning an edited book. Our proposal is almost ready to be sent to the publishers.

Linda Mahony, Sharynne, Jenny Dwyer, Laura McFarland, Andi Salamon


December 1, 2020

ECV2020 final statistics (16-20 November 2020)

Wow! ECV2020 had a global reach well beyond our expectations!

Registrations 

  • 2847 people registered from 70 countries 
Presentations 
  • 8 keynote presentations with 9 invited speakers 
  • 89 oral presentations 
CSU ECV2020 website statistics 
  • During the week of the conference there were 9,806 pageviews and 5,736 sessions 
  • The top 10 countries were Australia, US, UK, New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, The Netherlands 
  • The majority of traffic came from Facebook and Twitter, followed by CSU News 
  • People mostly viewed the website from their desktops (54%) or mobiles (43%) 
CSU YouTube statistics (most, but not all presentations were on YouTube) 
  • During the week of the conference there were over 11,500 views of the presentations, and 938 hours of watch time 
  • 98.2% of the total traffic to CSU’s YouTube channel in November 2020 was generated by ECV2020. 

Here's my blogpost with all of the relevant links:

https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2020/11/early-childhood-voices-conference-2020.html

Here are the other blogposts about ECV2020:  

https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/search/label/ECV2020 

November 19, 2020

ECV2020 ECRG watching sessions together

Each lunchtime this week the Early Childhood Research Group have watched an ECV2020 keynote presentation (or two) then discussed it together. Today we watched Laureate Professor Marilyn Fleer's presentation.

November 17, 2020

Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference - Statistics from day 1

The Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference began yesterday (16th November, 2020). The committee met this morning to run over some of the statistics from day 1. WOW!

Registrations  = 2,758 from 70 countries

CSU YouTube channel (whole of CSU): views up 35,800 more than usual yesterday with 57 new subscribers

ECV2020 YouTube channel in the last 24 hours: 

  • ECV2020 welcome video – 418 views
  • Keynote 1 (Lundy) – 411 views
  • Keynote 3 (Fleer) – 158 views 
  • Keynote 5 (Dockett & Perry) – 179 views
  • Keynote 6 (Osgood) – 152 views

(we have had some technical issues with some of the other keynotes, that should be sorted now)

  • Paper 101 (Cumming) – 145  views
  • Paper 102 (Crowe) – 100 views 
  • Paper 107 (Downey) – 70 views
  • Paper 111 (McLeod & Crowe) – 72 views 
  • Paper 158 (Nakatsubo) – 58 views
  • Paper 175 (Robbie Warren) – 52 views

The presentations from the CSU ECRG members are getting a lot of views. 

Also, CSU has published another news release: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/when-do-children-learn-speech-sounds



November 13, 2020

Early Childhood Voices Conference 2020 - all the links and information

Early Childhood Voices  Conference ECV2020

The Early Childhood Voices Conference (ECV2020) is a FREE international multidisciplinary conference sharing research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, families and practitioners that supports social justice during early childhood or within the early childhood sector. International speakers will present research in a virtual online space about innovations to improve the lives of children, families and practitioners during early childhood (generally birth-8 years) or within the early childhood sector. ECV2020 will be held entirely online and asynchronously; that is, you can watch the presentations anytime during the conference. There is no registration fee and no fees to present or view the presentations. The conference will be held from 16th to 20th November 2020.


In the news

ECV2020 map of registrations

 

10am on 16th November 2020 - Our first morning...

  • Registrations  = 2678
  • Views in the first hour. Welcome - 120 views; Keynote 1 (Lundy) - 64 views; Keynote 2 (Gillon) - 28 views (Gillon); Keynote 3 - 20 views; Keynote 5 (Dockett & Perry) - 19 views; Keynote 6 (Osgood) - 20 views; Keynote 8 (Emery) - 10 views; 101 (Cumming) - 32 views; 103 - 10 views; 106 - 10 views; 108 - 13 views; 111 - 13 views; 115 - 11 views; 126 - 13 views

 




November 10, 2020

Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference statistics - one week before it begins

The latest statistics about our Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference are amazing: 

  • 8 keynote presentations
  • 93 oral presentations from 17 countries
  • 2102 registrations from 70 countries (+ "unknown location")
  • 4438 page views of our ECV2020 website in the past month
  • One busy and very happy conference committee

Registrations are from: Albania Argentina Armenia Australia Bahrain Bangladesh Belgium Bhutan Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Cambodia Canada Chile China Costa Rica Croatia Denmark Fiji Finland France Germany Ghana Greece Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kuwait Latvia Macau SAR China Malaysia Malta Mexico Moldova Morocco Myanmar (Burma) Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Russia Samoa Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Turkey United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe 

 

CSU News has run the following story: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/strong-international-registrations-for-online-early-childhood-conference

Thank you everyone - next week is going to be spectacular!
Details here: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2020/

ECV2020 conference committee meeting - 10 November 2020



November 5, 2020

ECV2020 preparation and promotion

CSU News has begun their series of news stories to promote ECV2020:

https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/strong-international-registrations-for-online-early-childhood-conference

Meanwhile in the background the team are busy:

Belinda Downey, Greta and Sharynne checking the reviews of the video presentations

October 22, 2020

ECV2020 - 1104 registrations from 52 countries so far

We are working hard on preparing for ECV2020: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2020/

We are so delighted by the number of registrations we have for ECV2020. We currently have 1104 registrations from 51 countries (+ unknown) so far. The conference is still 3 weeks away! 

  1. Albania 
  2. Argentina 
  3. Australia 
  4. Bahrain 
  5. Bangladesh 
  6. Belgium 
  7. Brazil 
  8. Canada 
  9. Chile 
  10. Costa 
  11. Rica 
  12. Denmark 
  13. Fiji 
  14. Finland 
  15. France 
  16. Germany 
  17. Ghana 
  18. Greece 
  19. Iceland 
  20. India 
  21. Ireland 
  22. Italy 
  23. Japan 
  24. Jordan 
  25. Kuwait 
  26. Latvia 
  27. Macau SAR China 
  28. Malta 
  29. Moldova 
  30. Morocco 
  31. Myanmar (Burma) 
  32. New Zealand 
  33. Nigeria 
  34. Norway 
  35. Oman 
  36. Pakistan 
  37. Peru 
  38. Philippines 
  39. Poland 
  40. Saudi Arabia 
  41. Singapore 
  42. South Africa 
  43. Sweden 
  44. Switzerland 
  45. Turkey 
  46. United Arab Emirates 
  47. United Kingdom 
  48. United States 
  49. (Unknown Location) 
  50. Vietnam 
  51. Zambia 
  52. Zimbabwe

October 15, 2020

ECV2020 planning meeting

Today we met for our next ECV2020 planning meeting. We have 811 registrations - 8 keynote sessions and 89 oral presentations. We are currently working on the abstract book, social media, website, welcome videos etc.

September 30, 2020

ECV2020: The latest statistics

 Since 30th August we have had

  • 2580 page views of our website with the top countries being (in order):  Australia, UK, Vietnam, US, NZ, Japan, Ireland, Finland, Netherlands, Brazil
  • 490 registrations from 29 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malta, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Turkey, UAE, UK, US, Vietnam, Zambia
  • Everyone who submitted the 93 abstracts will be informed of the outcome of their submission by today.