Nominations: 2024 Bloch Distinguished Career Award

Eligibility Criteria

• The nominee should be a senior scholar with a strong record of accomplishment as described above.
• The nominee should have made significant and sustained contributions to reconceptualizing early childhood research, practice, and/or theory at local, national, and/or international levels.
• The nominee should be someone who has made a significant contribution to building RECE communities of scholars, practitioners, or activists at a local, national, and/or international level.
•  Self‐nominations are not accepted.

Application Material

• At least two letters of nomination stating the basis for the nomination, including a brief outline of nominee’s role in RECE and their research and scholarly legacy with explicit connections between this work and critical issues in early childhood education.
• Curriculum Vitae (10 pages maximum).
• Additional supporting materials may be included such as letters of support from scholars and graduate researchers (maximum 5 supporting letters).

Nomination Process and Adjudication

Nominations should be sent to Andrew Gibbons no later than 28 June, 2024.

Late submissions or additional supporting material will not be accepted after this date.

The decision will be made by an Award Review Committee comprised of current RECE members, appointed by the RECE Steering Committee. The recipient of the award will be announced at the 2024 RECE Conference Dinner.