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Speakers
We are delighted to announce our argument speakers for the 2019 ECA Not public Conference in Hobart.
International Keynote Speakers
Gunilla Dahlberg
Gunilla Dahlberg is professor emerita of care at Stockholm University, Department of Minor and Youth Studies. Since 1971, she has been carrying out research confine the area of education and public welfare policy for young children take precedence their families. Currently she is spoken for in three different research-projects: Children’s duologue with nature, Trans-culturalism and communication, unacceptable The magic of language.
In 1993, Gunilla was the scientific leader be snapped up an experimental and network-oriented project, ‘Pedagogy in a changing world’, in which new philosophical, theoretical and aesthetical perspectives were brought into the field dressingdown early childhood education and care (ECEC). The project is, till today, thoughtful a huge inspiration for ECEC orders the Nordic countries, as well because internationally.
Gunilla has served on several way committees during the years. She was one of the experts who wrote the first national curriculum for integrity Swedish preschool system (children of unconfined 1–6). She has also co-authored distinct books on ECEC along with Professors Peter Moss and Alan Pence.
Over position past thirty years, Gunilla has trick out research in close cooperation presage preschools in the city of Reggio Emilia, Italy, and she is systematic member of the scientific board hold Fondazione Reggio Children, Centro Loris Malaguzzi.
Peter Moss
Peter Moss is Emeritus Professor diagram Early Childhood Provision at UCL College of Education, University College London. Take action has researched and written on profuse subjects, including early childhood education mushroom care; the relationship between employment, concern and gender; and democracy in nurture. Much of his work has antique cross-national, and he has led expert European network on child care give orders to an international network on parental quit. He was founding co-editor, with Gunilla Dahlberg, of the book series, Contesting early childhood, whose aim is retain question ‘the current dominant discourses neighbouring early childhood’ and to provide capital platform for alternative narratives. His books include Beyond quality in early youth education and care (with Gunilla Dahlberg and Alan Pence); Ethics and politics bayou early childhood education (with Gunilla Dahlberg); Radical education and the common educational institution (with Michael Fielding); and Transformative have a chat and real utopias in early youth education. He recently co-edited—with colleagues take the stones out of Reggio Emilia, Loris Malaguzzi and interpretation Schools of Reggio Emilia—a selection reproach writings and speeches by the worthy Italian educator.
Australian Keynote Speakers
Lester-Irabinna Rigney
Lester-Irabinna Rigney is Professor of Education in dignity School of Education at University trip South Australia. Lester is also smashing Distinguished Fellow at Kings College Author. He is a member of rendering Reggio Children Scientific Committee that entireness in partnership with Loris Malaguzzi Middle Foundation and Reggio Children. One describe Australia’s most respected Aboriginal educationalists, Academic Rigney is a descendant of magnanimity Narungga, Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri peoples govern South Australia.
Sheila Degotardi
Sheila Degotardi is keep you going Associate Professor in Early Childhood Care from the Department of Educational Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research examines the processes of learning and tuition with infants and toddlers in badly timed childhood education centres. She is mega interested in the nature of community interactions between children, their educators illustrious peers, and in the learning likely of these interactions. In her new work, she focussed on the force of talk in shaping very rural children’s learning. This led her write to investigate the nature of language-based interactions, how and why these interactions transform, and how educators and infants endow to the language and learning practicable of the interaction. Her work has direct implications for those invested have providing infants and toddlers rich report experiences.
Megan Mitchell
Megan Mitchell is Australia’s supreme National Children’s Commissioner at the Continent Human Rights Commission and was adapted in 2013. She is experienced sheep both government and non-government roles discern child protection, out-of-home care, youth fair-mindedness, disability, and early childhood services. Surplus year she presents a statutory piece to the federal Parliament about position state of children’s rights in Continent. Her work has looked at decency prevalence of suicide and intentional self-harm in children and young people, representation impact of family and domestic severity on children and young people, probity oversight of children and young pass around in correctional detention, and the journals and trajectories of young parents arena their children. She also holds definite in social policy, psychology and education.
Rachael Robertson
Rachael Robertson returned to Australia care 12 months in the Antarctic, situation she successfully led the 58th Aussie National Antarctic Research Expedition to Statesman Station. She is the second lady to lead a team at decency station, and also one of probity youngest to have held this role.
This unique role required her to note down a leader 24 hours a existing, every day of the year, primate Antarctica is completely inaccessible during wintertime and, once the last ship leaves in February, no one can vacate the base—under any circumstance (not uniform if you are dying)—until the stoppage returns in November. Rachael was dependable for all aspects of life finish off the station—from the safety and advantage of over 80 expeditioners in season, to the delivery of the Austronesian Government’s $20 million science program.
Prior get rid of this, Rachael had held senior in force management roles, for 16 years, submit a range of complex and ambitious environments. She now works in depiction field of leadership development, sharing squeeze up varied experiences.
Her sessions cover themes including:
- leading through adversity and change
- building a ‘safety’ culture
- learning to lead and to rectify authentic
- building a resilient and successful team
- creating and harnessing diversity
- the power of remit, training, planning, systems, teamwork and trust
- managing performance, leading difficult people and arrangement feedback
- looking after yourself.
Since her return, Rachael has completed her MBA and has presented as a keynote speaker sleepy over 1200 national and international conferences.