Early Development Imperative Conference
We recently received an email from Council for Early Child Development about their upcoming Early Development Imperative conference. The conference will be held in Winnipeg, November 16th through 18th, 2009. Registration and the complete conference program are not scheduled to be posted on their web site until mid-August, but you can find some information in this flyer for the meantime.
The CECD’s National Lead Fellow, Joanne Schroeder, had this to say about the conference:
Building on our events earlier this year in Sackville and Montreal, the Winnipeg conference will bring together researchers, community members and policy makers. The event will see the launch of our pan-Canadian analysis of EDI results and be a key step in the Council’s goal of building an effective and comprehensive system of monitoring children’s development in Canada.
The CECD is presenting this event in partnership with Healthy Child Manitoba, the Offord Centre for Child Studies and the Human Early Learning Partnership.
The Research in Early Child Development (RECD) Initiative at the UPEI Centre for Education Research is working as part of the pan-Canadian analysis of EDI results.
That is interesting to hear, Cheryl. Would you able to provide a link to more information about the RECD Initiative or the Centre for Education Research’s web site? It might be handy for any reader who would like to find out more.
I have attached the Centre for Education Research website link above. The RECD is listed as one of the current projects.
The RECD Initiative has refined a conceptual research framework for early child development. Currently, we are working on Prince Edward Island (PEI) applying our framework to many of the early childhood initiatives. The goal is to spark discussion and highlight connections within and across sectors while setting a theoretical grounding for future work.
Bronfenbrenner’s (2004) Bioecological model of human development, which we have modified in development of our research framework, acknowledges that humans do not develop in isolation but in relation to their family and home, school, community, society and indeed the global world. Each of these changing environments, as well as the interactions among them, are key to healthy human development.
“Child development takes place through processes of progressively more complex interaction between an active child and the persons, objects and symbols in his/her immediate environment. Aspects of the model include the belief that not only do the various domains listed above affect the child but the child can also affect his/her environment.
Hope that helps,
Cheryl