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.

WORLD CONFERENCES ON
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

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.


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.

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.

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INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

The 1 st International Conference on Logical Mathematical Thinking in Early Childhood Education, Madrid , 28, 29 & 30, 2006.

The 3rd World Conference on Reading and Writing that Hill take place in Morelia , Mexico , March 23, 24 & 25, 2006.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

•  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.

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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