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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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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
ECV2024-457 – Integrating children’s interests and educators’ choices in teaching STEAM through play-based learning: A cultural-historical study
Shukla Sikder, Charles Sturt University, Australia (ssikder@csu.edu.au) Jahirul Mullick, Wenzhou-Kean University, China (jmullick@kean.edu) Anamika Devi, Swinburne University, Australia (adevi@swin.edu.au) Muhammad Alamgir Hossain, Charles Sturt University, ...
ECV2024-458 – Positive/successful community participation for children with communication support needs
Caitlin Slaney, Charles Sturt University, Australia (cslaney@csu.edu.au) Catherine Easton, Charles Sturt University, Australia (ceaston@csu.edu.au) Judith Crockett, Charles Sturt University, Australia (jcrockett@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-459 – Revolutionising infant education: The benefits of group dynamics in early learning environments
Matthew Stapleton, Centre Support, Australia (matt@centresupport.com.au) Ben Bradley, Charles Sturt University, Australia (bbradley@csu.edu.au) Jane Selby, Charles Sturt University, Australia (JSelby@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-460 – The role of pre-service education in addressing barriers to nurses reporting child maltreatment
Sarah Stenson, Charles Sturt University, Australia (sastenson@csu.edu.au) Julian Grant, Charles Sturt University, Australia (jugrant@csu.edu.au) Angela Fenton, Charles Sturt University, Australia (afenton@csu.edu.au) Allison Hutton, Western Sydney ...
ECV2024-461 – Normalising partnership working between speech and language therapists and early childhood educators: What we learnt from listening
Helen Stringer, Newcastle University, UK (helen.stringer@newcasle.ac.uk) Eva Gilmour, Newcastle University, UK (e.l.gilmour1@newcastle.ac.uk) Di Nicholson, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK (di.nicholson@nhct.nhs.uk) Kate Hope, Northumbria Healthcare ...
ECV2024-462 – Early childhood and primary school teachers’ experiences and needs in working with trauma-impacted children: A systematic review and thematic synthesis
Yihan Sun, Monash University, Australia (Yihan.sun@monash.edu) Andrea Tamblyn, Monash University, Australia (andrea.tamblyn@monash.edu) Dr Heather Morris, Monash University, Australia (heather.morris@monash.edu) Prof Helen Skouteris, Monash University, Australia ...
ECV2024-463 – Moral development in early years through religious education curriculum: A case study from a faith-based community
Seema Surani, Community Development Foundation, Pakistan (seema.shamsuddin@cdfp.org) Shairose Jessani, Community Development Foundation, Pakistan (shairose.jessani@cdfp.org)
ECV2024-465 – Kindergarten teachers’ practices in addressing the challenges encountered by parents in teaching beginning reading skills during the pandemic
Mariel Tapadera, Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, Philippines (mrtapadera@gmail.com)
ECV2024-466 – Phonological skills in Polish-speaking children with speech sound disorders: The diagnostic tool design
Agata Trębacz-Ritter, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (a.trebacz@amu.edu.pl)
ECV2024-467 – Play-based early childhood science education: A scoping review
Xuecheng Zou, Monash University, Australia (xuecheng.zou@monash.edu) Nikolay Veresov, Monash University, Australia (nikolai.veresov@monash.edu) Liang Li, Monash University, Australia (liang.li@monash.edu)
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