Location: International School of Prague
Dates: November 3-5, 2016.
Registration Fee: 200 EUR for CEESA members / 300 EUR for Non-CEESA members.
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Information about program, keyonte speakers, registration fee, accommodation, transport and Prague in general is below.
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Christine Chaillé, PhD
Christine Chaillé, PhD
Christine Chaillé is Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Portland State University, focusing on early childhood education, where she has taught since 1991. Her doctorate is from U.C.L.A., and she also studied with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva. She is the author of Constructivism Across the Early Childhood Curriculum: Big Ideas as Inspiration, and co-author of The Young Child as Scientist: A Constructivist Approach to Early Childhood Science Education and Integrating Math and Science in Early Childhood Classrooms Through Big Ideas: A Constructivist Approach and has written many publications primarily on the importance of children’s play and constructivism.
She has also developed a child development curriculum with Frank Mahler for Hands to Hearts International that is used with caregivers in orphanages in Southern India, as well as in other countries and with other vulnerable populations, and currently works with schools and consults nationally and internationally. She has served as President (twice!) of the Oregon Association for the Education of Young Children, President of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators and Chair of the Early Education/Child Development Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, and was honored as Outstanding Teacher Educator for 2013 by the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators.
Mary Marjerrison
Mary Marjerrison
As a designer and coordinator of curriculum with twenty plus years in the field, I am committed to discovering and applying the processes and qualities of learning through effective curriculum, meaningful and timely change in response to individual and community needs, and to the development of a strong educational program.
I evaluate and lead development of the disciplinary and cross-disciplinary curricula. During previous school years, this has included disciplinary emphases on language, science, the arts, and differentiation practices across the school.
I am currently leading curriculum review and development for mathematics in the primary and middle school programs. This includes research on learning in mathematics, revision and implementation of written objectives, assessment and analysis of student learning, modeling teaching strategies, co-teaching and analyzing lessons, planning professional development, and providing resources.
Deb Wilenski
Deb Wilenski
Deb Wilenski is a pedagogical consultant, educator and writer, working with Reflections Nursery and Forest School (West Sussex) and Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (Cambridge). With a background in Biological Anthropology, English and European Literature and the Arts, she is inspired by the preschools and infant-toddler centres of Reggio Emilia, the woodland nurseries of Scandinavia, and by projects which value children as makers of culture and meaning.
She is the author of The Revolutionary Baby (with Laura Magnavacchi), and The Fire Monster (with Laura Magnavacchi and Mandy Jenkins), 37 Shadows – Listening to children’s stories from the woods, A Story of Smallness and Light, Outside/Inside (with Caroline Wendling), and A Fantastical Guide to Hinchingbrooke Country Park (with Caroline Wendling.
Current projects include a new book, The Dark and Luminous Forest documenting children’s explorations of light, sound, multiple worlds and dreaming in the forest (Reflections); and Fantastical Cambridgeshire, a long-term project working with primary school children, to discover and map the extraordinary places and stories on a school’s doorstep.
Laura Magnavacchi
Laura Magnavacchi
Laura Magnavacchi is an artist, atelierista and early childhood educator from Reggio Emilia.
She worked in Italy as atelierista and educator for two years where she experienced Reggio Children pre-‐schools gaining interest in the figure of the atelier and the role of atelierista.
She is currently atelierista at Reflections Nursery and Forest School where her passion lies in outdoor learning and the relationship between art, nature and education. She has a degree in Education, a degree in Fine Art and a qualification as a Forest School Leader.
Her current research interest is in how early education is developing, especially through creative languages, in different contexts around the world.
She has worked in Ateliers in Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg and England. Laura is author/graphic designer of ‘Storying’ (with Teresa Grimaldi) ‘The Fire Monster’ (with Deb Wilenski and Mandy Jenkins) and ‘The Revolutionary Baby’ (with Deb Wilenski).
Here she has developed a passion as a designer. Her art practice includes painting with mixed media, etching and photography. Her interest lies in the relationship between opposite but connected concepts that can live together through art, especially in the dialogue between light and dark and different material.
Her own art work has been selected for exhibitions in Italy.