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OMEP invites submissions from people interested
in presenting papers, symposia or workshops at
the XXIV World Congress of OMEP, to be held at
the Melbourne Convention Centre, Victoria, Australia
21 July to 24 July 2004.
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One World: Many Childhoods
The XXIV World Congress of OMEP will provide a
valuable forum for those people and organisations
interested and involved in early childhood services
and research. It will feature the presentation
and discussion of the work of a range of professionals
from around the world working in early childhood
related services as well as those organisations
that sponsor these fields.
Themes and content
The theme of the Congress is One
World: Many Childhoods.
This theme presents a unique opportunity for those
working with children 0-8 to exchange information
and to celebrate the enriching of communities
through the lives of young children. It is expected
this theme will attract papers from such diverse
fields as heatlh, education, law, medicine, government
and research. Broad ranging topics will enable
speakers and to bring the importance of the early
years to public awareness.
The four sub-themes are as follows:
Forum 1: Children's Health and Social Services
This Forum will examine current research relatd
to the early years particularly uin relations
to child developments. Issues such as the impact
of poverty, hunger, nutrition and obesity will
be explored. . There will also be social and
community services to explore ethical issues
in relation to health services, parenting, HIV/AIDS,
mental and physical health and health education,
community development in diverse ways, will be
developed. The findings from current research
will be highlighted and implications will be
drawn for the delivery of early childhood services.
Forum 2: Indigenous Children's Needs and
Services
This Forum will examine the rights of children
and their need for appropriate health, welfare
and children's services and will take into account
the many childhoods and the differing circumstances
in which the children of this world live. Remoteness,
cultural and family contexts should also influence
service delivery and their will be an opportunity
to engage in critical reflection of values, styles
and processes as indicators of universal service
delivery.
Forum 3: Innovation in Service Delivery
This Forum will address the quality of and access
to health education and care for children across
the world. The Forum will include a number of
strands such as: professional education and training,
the integration of services, services for children
in diverse circumstances (for example home-tutoring,
hospitals, remote locations, scholl of the air
etc.), the use of new technologies, new curricula,
staffing matters and resources across the different
services and recent research.
Forum 4: Children in Difficult Circumstances
Throughout the world young children face difficult
circumstances daily that are extreme in their
diversity and situation. We find children in situations
such as detention centres, in child labour and
poverty, children in trouble with the law, who
have been severely affected by wars and other
turmoil, who have been abused one way or other,
who are homeless. These are only some of the acknowledged
difficult circumstances in which children live
and survive.
For further information please contact the Congress
Secretariat:
The Meeting Planners Pty Ltd
91 - 97 Islington Street
Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, 3066
Telephone: +61 3 9417 0888
Facsimile: +61 3 9417 0899
Email: omep@meetingplanners.com.au
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