Keynote speakers
Silvia Carrasco Pons, Barcelona
Children, diversity and sociocultural change in Southern Europe
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Dr. Silvia Carrasco is a professor of Anthropology of Education at the UAB Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and has been visiting scholar in several universities in Europe and in North and South America (UK, US, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua). Read more ...
Bronwyn Davies, Melbourne
Open listening: creative evolution in early childhood settings
Keynote address to be presented at the OMEP XXVI World Conference, August 11-13, 2010, Goteborg, Sweden
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Bronwyn Davies is a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University and a research professor at the University of Western Sydney and leader of the research node Narrative Discourse and Pedagogy, an interdisciplinary research group based in the College of Arts. Read more ...
Jan Eliasson, Stockholm
Children - citizens in a challenged world
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Ambassador Jan Eliasson is one of Swedens most well known diplomats. Between 1994 and 1999 Jan Eliasson was State Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Sweden's Ambassador to Washington D.C in 2000-2004. Ambassador Jan Eliasson's long and impressive diplomatic career led him to be appointed Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2006. Read more...
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Göteborg
The Role of Early Childhood Education for a Sustainable Society
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Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson was elected OMEP World President in Mexico in 2007. She holds a chair as Professor in Early Childhood Education at Göteborg University since 1997, and is one of the leading researchers within Early Childhood Education in Sweden. She is the first Swedish preschool teacher to get a professorship. Read more ...
Sylvie Rayna, Paris
Preschool in 5 cultures: welcoming migrant children
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Sylvie Rayna is a professor at the National Institute or Educational Research and at the Universties Paris V and Paris XIII. She is responsible for the Greek Early Childhood Education Programme at Paris XIII.
Dr. Rayna is a board member of the European Early Childhood Education Research Asocciation (EECERA) Read more ...