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NZ Early Childhood Research
10th Annual Conference and Symposia

Mon 4th - Tues 5th December 2006

The Conference is to be held at Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Porirua City , Wellington.

The purpose of the conference is to provide:

• A supportive, non-political, and stimulating forum for researchers to present, and for participants to learn about the latest research, research methodology, and theory in the early years of childhood (0 - 8yrs).
• Ongoing training and skill development for researchers through choices of training/workshop sessions offered within the programme.
• An opportunity for meeting researchers and strengthening professional networks.
• A great annual occasion for communicating your work to a range of people and organisations.

Five Symposia will be running during the conference:

• Child Research (focus on learning)
• Child Research (focus on health, protection, well-being)
• Parent, Family and Community Research
• Professional education, teachers' work, child and family specialists' work, and organisation research
• Policy Research and Policy Analysis

The closing date for submission of research papers for any one of the five symposia and for offers to lead workshop/researcher training sessions is May 31st.

Offers to provide workshops on a research method or methodology and workshops on skills for researchers (such as learning to write better proposals for funding, or use of computer packages for data analysis) are welcomed.

If you are interested in contributing by way of a paper presentation or workshop please contact Dr. Sarah Farquhar
- Email: sarah@childforum.com.

The Call for Papers is available online at http://www.childforum.com/symposium.asp