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Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024
ECV2024 Launch | 25th November 2024 (1 Hour and 5 mins)
Press Gallery report by students from Assumption Catholic Primary School Bathurst
ECV2024 is an interdisciplinary international conference that provides a platform to share research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, families and practitioners that supports social justice during early childhood or within the early childhood sector.
ECV2024 is organised by the Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group and is an opportunity to present research in a virtual online space. ECV2024 showcases the work of four outstanding keynote presentations as well as 147 oral presentations in three streams.
• STREAM 1: Early childhood voices: International interdisciplinary research (ECV2024-401-471)
• STREAM 2: Multilingual children’s speech development (ECV2024-500-575)
• STREAM 3: Children Draw Playing Global Online Gallery
ECV2024 was held entirely online and asynchronously from 25–28 November 2024. There was no registration fee and no fees to present or view the presentations. The presentations remain online.
We received 1333 registrations from 54 countries/regions!
Papers are aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals,
especially SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 10, and SDG 17.
We are excited to announce the establishment of the Children’s Voices Centre https://www.csu.edu.au/research/childrens-voices-centre/home
Our hope is that this conference supports social justice during early childhood or within the early childhood sector across the world. Thank you for your participation.
Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod and Dr Belinda Downey
Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference Chairs
Dr Carolyn Gregoric
Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference Secretary
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Conference Proceedings Book
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Keynote Speakers
1. Developing and retaining a workforce for high-quality early childhood education and care
Dr Elizabeth Shuey
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2. Neurodiversity-affirming approaches to play: Perspectives from research with autistic children and adults
Professor Jenny L. Gibson University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3. Giving voice to ‘villages’, listening to ‘Country’: It’s time to unlock the power of ‘place’
Professor Tony Dreise
Charles Sturt University, Australia
4. Embracing systems thinking to open conditions of possibility for the early childhood education workforce
Dr Tamara Cumming
Macquarie University, Australia
Early childhood voices: International interdisciplinary research
Stream 1
Presentations By Topics
- All
- Children's voices
- Communication
- Education
- Families' voices
- Health
- Indigenous voices
- Innovation
- Interdisciplinary
- Leadership
- Multilingual
- Presentations
- Professionals' voices
- Rural communities
- Vulnerable Communities
- Wellbeing
- Workforce
- All
- Children's voices
- Communication
- Education
- Families' voices
- Health
- Indigenous voices
- Innovation
- Interdisciplinary
- Leadership
- Multilingual
- Presentations
- Professionals' voices
- Rural communities
- Vulnerable Communities
- Wellbeing
- Workforce
ECV2024-447- Inclusive STEAM Pedagogy in Chinese preschools in Wenzhou: A qualitative exploration of teacher practices
Xutong Pan, Wenzhou-Kean University, China (panxut@kean.edu) Jahirul Mullick, Wenzhou-Kean University, China (jmullick@kean.edu)
ECV2024-448 – Morphosyntactic and semantic measures in Bilingual Azeri-Persian-speaking children with and without language impairment
Talieh Zarifian, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran (ta.zarifian@uswr.ac.ir) Maral Azimi, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran (marya1995@gmail.com) Gelavizh Karimijavan, Tabriz ...
ECV2024-449 – Dual language dynamics: Insights from bilingual students with developmental disabilities in Alberta’s French-language schools
Tracie Pospisil, University of Alberta, Canada (tpospisil@ualberta.ca) Andrea A.N. MacLeod, University of Alberta, Canada (aamacleod@ualberta.ca)
ECV2024-450 – Exploring inclusion in early years education using a cultural-historical theoretical lens
Arifa Rahman, Charles Sturt University, Australia (arrahman@csu.edu.au) Shukla Sikder, Charles Sturt University, Australia (ssikder@csu.edu.au) Lucia Zundans-Fraser, Charles Sturt University, Australia (lzundans@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-451 – Harnessing the power of lived experience by involving adults with childhood onset disabilities in research: Learnings from a researcher and adult with developmental language disorder
Lucy Rodgers, City University of London and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, UK (lucy.rodgers@city.ac.uk) Sophie Franks, Expert with Lived Experience, UK (sophfranks80@outlook.com)
ECV2024-452 – Examining scientific literacy in the early years: A document review of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) for Australia
Goutam Roy, Charles Sturt University, Australia (groy@csu.edu.au) Shukla Sikder, Charles Sturt University, Australia (ssikder@csu.edu.au) Will Letts, Charles Sturt University, Australia (wletts@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-453 – Teacher training and ecosocial justice: Listening to children’s voices to value and connect with local resources from ecodependence and interdependence
Ángela Saiz Linares, Universidad de Cantabria, España (saizla@unican.es) Noelia Ceballos López, Universidad de Cantabria, España (ceballosn@unican.es)
ECV2024-454 – Scoping review: Resources for immigrant parent-caregivers of neurodivergent children in Canada (2013–2024)
Samina Sana, University of Alberta, Canada (ssana@ualberta.ca) Andrea A.N. MacLeod, University of Alberta, Canada (andrea.a.n.macleod@ualberta.ca) Kim Mayer, Edmonton Newcomer Centre, Canada (kmayer@newcomercentre.com)
ECV2024-455 – Effectiveness of the ASD social communication group intervention in a resource constraint context: Case study in Fiji
N. K. Chamila Sewwandi, Frank Hilton Organisation, Suva, Fiji (chamila.s@hilton.org.fj) Haritha Amunugama, Frank Hilton Organisation, Suva, Fiji. (haritha.a@hilton.org.fj) Dira Ah Kee, Frank Hilton Organisation, Suva, ...
ECV2024-456 – Understanding the needs of children from immigrant families when they serve as interpreters to develop a knowledge tool for healthcare providers
Areej Shaikh, University of Alberta, Canada (ajshaikh@ualberta.ca) Andrea A.N. MacLeod, University of Alberta, Canada (andrea.a.n.macleod@ualberta.ca)
Multilingual children's speech development
(Stream 2)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The work of the Early Childhood Research Group supports SDGs 3, 4, 8, 10 (and others). Each presentation was aligned with relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals