Early Childhood Education and Care - Thematic Review Workshops

Workshops: In the present round of reviews, the OECD secretariat has organised each year two workshops for the national co-ordinators on topics central to ECEC policy making.

• Reggio Emilia, Italy, 21-22 September 2006 – Starting Strong II: Public Policy in Early Childhood Education and Care, a conference that launched the publication of Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care.  Conference participants discussed key aspects of policy making in this field and also visited the well-known Reggio Emilia pre-schools.
• Stockholm, June 2003 - on “Approaches to curriculum”. Discussion papers were provided by Professor Helen May on Te Whariki; Professor Ferre Laevers on Experiential Education; Dr. Carlina Rinaldi on Reggio Emilia; and  Dr. David Weikart on High/Scope.
• Rotterdam, January 2003 - on “Funding and financing ECEC Services”.  The discussion paper was written by Professors Gordon Cleveland and Mike Krashinsky of the University of Toronto
• Paris, October 2002 – a two-day workshop on "Indicators and data in early childhood". The discussion paper was written by Dr. John Bennett, OECD.
• Oslo, June 2002 - on "Improving access for children from low-income or minority backgrounds". The discussion paper was written by Dr. Paul Leseman, University of Amsterdam.

All these papers are available for consultation (go to: Thematic Workshops and Documents). 

Starting Strong II: In the research and writing of this work, John Bennett was joined by Professor Collette Tayler, Head, School of Early Childhood, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. QUT kindly released Collette for a period of six months, from June to December 2004. Both Collette and John worked externally in 2005.


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