World Forum Themes Unveiled

01/30/2007

You already possess everything necessary to become great.
American Indian proverb

The program team for the 2007 World Forum on Early Care and Education has been hard at work sifting through hundreds of program suggestions and has selected major themes the program will be built around. The overriding theme of this World Forum will be the "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child." There will be four plenary sessions focusing on the Rights of the Child (twice), the UNESCO Education for All Report on Early Childhood, and the Impact of Poverty on Young Children.

The program will include 63 sessions focusing on the following themes:

Peace-Building with Young Children
Impact of Violence in Children's Lives (including media violence, abuse and neglect, conflict resolution)
Nature Education for Young Children
Environmental Design (indoor and outdoor)
Professional Development (including distance education, men in ece)
Managing Programs for Quality
Threats to Healthy Childhoods (including HIV/AIDS, nutrition, poverty, care in emergencies, movement and displacement)
Quality (setting standards, monitoring, achieving on a budget)
Delivering Care (including issues around financing, gender, transitions, children in orphanages, informal care, rural care, children with special needs, infants and toddlers, and out of school care)
Curriculum — Philosophical and Development Issues (including cultural context)
Curriculum Content Issues (including literacy, art, music, drama, play, movement)
Parent and Family Issues
Advocacy

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