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AMEI-WAECE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
To
accomplish our goals, a number of activities have been conducted.
Here we have grouped our Events under the following headings:
World Conferences and International Events
(by chronological order).
Coming
Soon:
-Second
World Conference on Early Chidhood Education for Peace.
2010
-Second
International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Competencies
Development. Madrid, 27, 28 & 29, 2009.
-International
Conference on Early Childhood Education: "first years of
life". The conference will take place in Guanajuato
(México), March 27-29, 2009.
-International Conference on "Thinking Development:
Learning to think in early childhood". May, 21,
22 & 23, 2009 in Morelia (México).
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INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND COMPETENCIES DEVELOPMENT.
Madrid, November 28, 29 & 30 2008.
The concept of competencies has slowly spread in the field
of education, until it has been included in the educational
reforms made in many different countries. To focus the school
work on competencies requires the educators to look for educational
experiences in which the children will put into use a set
of capacities of different kinds (affective, social, cognitive,
language, physical, motor) that reinforce each other. In general,
children’s learning will encompass different fields
of human development at the same time.Therefore, in this conference,
our goal is to offer educators the strategies to promote,
strengthen and develop the competencies that each child already
has.
Among the personalities that have taken part in this event
we can mention toThomas Armstrong and Constance Kamii. |
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON "LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD".
México, February 21, 22 & 23, 2008
Nowadays, we can not define writing only as the transcription
of spoken language but also as a means to permanently fix
our thoughts, experiences and memories and as a form of
expression, communication and Exchange. Therefore, we have
to keep in mind that in the learning of writing we develop
motor, intellectual and expression activities. This leads
us to a number of questions: What is reading and writing?
When to start? What skills are needed? What method to use?
How to foster and stimulate the process? To find the answers
to these and other questions we had this conference where
we offered space for reflection and for updating the information
that is offered daily from many different fields, assessing
the contributions of neurology, psychology and pedagogy.
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WORLD CONFERENCE on
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FOR PEACE "Learning to live
together in peace, from early childhood". Albacete
(Spain) April 20-22, 2007 in collaboration with the City Hall
of Albacete, UNESCO, the World Bank, the Organization of American
States, the World Association of Non Governmental Organizations
(WANGO) and the National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC), among other institutions. |
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METHODOLOGIES ON EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. México, March 21, 22
& 23, 2007. |
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The
1 st International Conference on Logical Mathematical Thinking
in Early Childhood Education, Madrid
, 28, 29 & 30, 2006. |
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON READING AND WRITING: Methodological reflections.
México,March 23, 24 & 25, 2006. |
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The
5th World Conference on Early Childhood Education took
place in Morelia , Mexico , April 6, 7 & 8, 2005, with
the participation of 50 well known international experts and
over 2,500 delegates. The conference had the auspices and
collaboration of the Ministry of Education of the State of
Michoacan , UNESCO Mexico and the National Pedagogic University. |
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In December
2004, the International Conference "Early childhood
curricula in the European Community" in Merida,
Badajoz, in collaboration with the Association of Early Childhood
Professionals of Portugal and under the Presidency
of Honor of Mr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez Ibarra, President of
the Junta de Extremadura . A team of experts from
the main European countries led the sessions for 200 delegates. |
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The
Second World Conference on Reading and Writing took
place in Madrid , May 2004 with an outstanding
international team of speakers, including Ana Maria Kauffman,
Yetta Goodman, Ken Pugh, Ken Goodman and Gaston Mialaret.
Delegations from Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Venezuela, Dominican
Republic, Peru, Panama, the United States, Portugal, England,
France and Japan. |
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The International
Conference "Brain, Intelligence and Educational
Programs" took place in May 2003 in San Salvador,
under the Presidency of Honor of Mrs. Lourdes de Flores,
First Lady of the country and with the attendance
of 1,400 delegates from all the American Continent |
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An International
Symposium of Experts on Emotional Intelligence marked
the 10th anniversary of the Association, in Madrid , March
2003. With 900 delegates from all over Spain and Portugal
and small international delegations from Mexico , Argentina
, Ecuador , Venezuela and the Dominican Republic , the President
of Honor of the Conference was H.R.H. Queen Sofia. |
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The International
Conference on Early Childhood Education , organized
in collaboration with the Libertador Pedagogical University
of Venezuela, took place in their Barquisimeto Campus, June
7-9, 2002, with 17 different countries represented by 1.600
delegates. It included parallel symposiums on Training
of early childhood educators; Non formal education programs;
Government early childhood policies and Child Rights. |
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The European
Conference on Values Education took place in Santiago
de Compostela, December 6 - 8, 2001, presided by Mr.
Manuel Fraga Iribarne, President of the Xunta de Galicia,
with speakers from nearly all the European countries
and 600 delegates from Europe and Latin America . |
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The First
World Conference on Reading and Writing was held
in Valencia , Spain , December 6 - 8, 2000, with 1,600 delegates
representing 24 countries under the presidency of H.R.H.
Elena de Borbon. |
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The World Meeting of
Early Childhood Educators was held in Cartagena
de Indias , Colombia , November 19 - 21, 1999. It was presided
by Mrs. Nohra Puyana de Pastrana, First Lady of Colombia
and UNESCO, UNICEF and the Colombian Ministry of
Education sponsored it. |
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The
4th World Conference on Early Childhood Education
was held in the Municipal Conference Center of Madrid, December
4 - 8, 1998 under the Presidency of H.R.H. Queen Sofia. 2,200
delegates from 34 different countries attended the conference.
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The Third World Conference
on Early Childhood Education was held in Cartagena
de Indias , Colombia , July 5 to 8, 1996 with over 1.500 participants
from 28 different countries. |
Among
the personalities that have taken part in these events
we can mention to D. Glenn Doman, Dr. David Lewis,
Dr. Susan Ludington, Dr. Manuel Kovacs, Dr. Howard Gardner, Dr.
Lawrence Shapiro, Dr. Rachel Cohen, Dr. John Bennett; Dr. Reuven
Feuerstein, Dr. Joan Isenberg; Dr. Miguel Angel Zabalza; Dr. Giuseppe
Totaro; Dr. Margarida Dolan, Dr. Franco Frabboni, Dr. Julie Viens,
Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Dr. Soo Hyang-Choi, Dr. Yetta Goodman, Dr.
Emilia Ferreiro, Prof. Ana Maria Kaufman, Dr. Kenneth Pugh Dr.
Paola Cagliari, Dr. Stig Lung and Dr. Bernard Combes, Dr. Federico
Mayor Zaragoza, among others.
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