About RECE
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) is dedicated to facilitating exchanges about work that challenge mainstream ideas regarding how young children learn and grow. In theory and in practice, RECE members question universal assumptions that mask the realities of local contexts and conditions.
Announcements
RECE Hybrid Conference 2022
Being Together in/with place:
Reimagining pedagogies in transformational times.
Conference location:
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dates:
June 23-26, 2022
In the midst of and in attunement to ongoing crises around the world, the 2022 Conference will offer members of the RECE community and their allies the opportunity to come together to reaffirm their sense of community, agency, creativity and commitment to co-creating a more livable, equitable, just, caring and welcoming world for children, families and early childhood educators around the globe. The conference takes the theme of place as a multilayered relational construct that can help us open up, hold, and sustain generative conversations across disciplines and from our different locations.
Host Chairs: Iris Berger and Mari Pighini
Program Chairs: Rachel Langford and Sonja Arndt
Mara Sapon-Shevin
Handmade Quilt
Mara’s literary quilt creations, offered at RECE conferences, are legendary! This year’s edition is based on the much beloved children’s story, Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak.
The quilt will be on display at the RECE conference.
One lucky winner will receive both the quilt and a copy of the book Where the Wild Things Are.
RECE Steering Committee
Ukraine Update & Humanitarian Appeal
By Mariia Vitrukh, PhD candidate, Arizona State University (from Ukraine) Since 24 February 2022 when the Russians invaded Ukraine, instead of learning the types of dinosaurs, Ukrainian children know different types of missiles and their potential damage. They learned to differentiate tanks, military planes, and other lethal weapons. Ukrainian parenting has also taken a very unexpected and horrific turn
RECE Blog
Ukraine Update & Humanitarian Appeal
By Mariia Vitrukh, PhD candidate, Arizona State University (from Ukraine) Since 24 February 2022 when the Russians invaded Ukraine, instead of learning the types
Registration is now open for the 2022 RECE
Hybrid conference, to be held 23rd – 26th June. Registration is now open for the 2022 RECE hybrid conference “Being together in/with place: Reimagining pedagogies in transformational times.”
RECE Turns 30 – Save the Date
Dear Colleagues, We are very excited to share with you updates from the RECE Steering Committee. RECE Turns 30 – Save the Date It is