Conferences

July 2004 conference: Roehampton, London, England. Speakers and presentations.

July 2006 conference: Froebel College, Dublin, Ireland. Speakers and presentations.

REGISTER NOW FOR THE 2008 CONFERENCE at http://www.wheelock.edu/IFS/

The July 2008 conference will be held at Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 9-11 July, 2008. Paper proposals and inquiries that require immediate attention should be sent to the Wheelock College Center for Scholarship and Research at cfsr@wheelock.edu.
The call for papers is to be found here.

The theme of the conference will be Learning to Play - Playing to Learn.

Wheelock College was founded in 1888 under the direction of Lucy Wheelock, an early pioneer of the kindergarten, and was at the forefront of the kindergarten movement in the USA. More about the college can be found at www.wheelock.edu.

You may view images of the site of the conference at http://web.mac.com/kevinjb1/iWeb/Wheelock%20College/Library.html

Details of the conference programme will be posted here as soon as they are confirmed.

Keynote speakers for the conference have so far been confirmed as:

Professor Tina Bruce (a member of the Research Committee of the Froebel Educational Institute - the FEI website is to be found at http://www.froebel.org.uk/frc.html)
TITLE OF KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Learning through Play: Froebelian principles and their practice today

Professor David Elkind http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?deptId=childdev
TITLE OF KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Froebel and Montessori: Opposing Views of Early Childhood Education

Professor Diane E Levin http://faculty.wheelock.edu/dlevin/
TITLE OF KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Play: an Endangered Species

Professor Nancy Carlsson-Paige http://parentingbookmark.com/pages/NCPabout.htm
TITLE OF KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Reclaiming Play: Helping Children Grow and Learn through Play in Challenging Times