Learning Groups
Social Change Learning Group
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Aims
The aim of this Learning Group is to share knowledge and expertise in relation to our understanding of the broad social, political and economic contexts of early childhood services in order to identify strategies to engage governments and other national and international organizations to promote and support the design and delivery of early childhood programs seeking to promote respect for ethnic diversity.
Outputs
The Learning Group is currently preparing two Working Papers that will be made available via the Reports page of this website:
- The first Paper will provide an overview of the broader economic, political and social contexts within which the early childhood sector operates by outlining the nature of social change and the factors that influence social change and their subsequent impact upon early childhood provision.
- The second Paper will focus more specifically on a range of issues and challenges facing those wishing to sustain and enhance the delivery of existing early childhood programs that promote respect for ethnic diversity.
Membership
Fernando Jiovani Arias (co-chair)
For more than 15 years as a Scientific Director of the Fundación Dos Mundos, Dr. Arias has develop a point of view from the psychosocial perspective in regards to the emotional implications of the human rights violations. He have been working with families victims of serious violent acts in many regions of Colombia. He had the opportunity to explore systematically the differences of emotional impacts relative to the gender, age and ethnics. Recently his work is related to emotional impacts of forced displacement at early childhood. Some of his titles include School and Armed Conflict: From well protected a protective space, Forced Disappearance and exhumations, Psychosocial Guidelines for the protection of victims and officials. Dr. Arias is currently working on an research of emotional impacts from armed conflict and the duration of internal wars as a candidate for Political Sciences PHD at the Andes University..
Prof Jacqueline Hayden (co-chair)
Dr Hayden has a long history of involvement with programs for young children in diverse and conflict ridden environments. Some of her recent work involves program development for vulnerable and displaced children in Mauritius and in Rwandan refugee camps; researching young children who have been affected and infected by HIV/AIDS in Namibia; and consulting on early year school programs for indigenous children in Australia. Dr Hayden has published widely. Titles include Landscapes in Early Childhood Education: Cross National Perspectives - A Guide for the New Millennium (Peter Lang), HIV/AIDS and the Young Child (University of Namibia Press) and From Conflict to Peace Building: The Power of Early Childhood Initiatives (with Paul Connolly and Diane Levin) (NAEYC). Jacqueline is Associate Professor of Education and Founding Director of the Healthy Childhood Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. Since 2006, she has been the Program Manager of Social Inclusion and Respect for Diversity for the Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Co-Director of the National Center for Children and Families, Columbia University
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Mary A Moran
ECD Specialist for Child Fund International
Mary A Moran
Liberty Orbe
PhD student Centre for Research and Social Inclusion, Macquarie University
Liberty Orbe
Deepa Grover
Regional Adviser on Early Childhood Development at UNICEF
Deepa Grover
Nyambura Rugoiyo
ECD Specialist for Eastern Africa, Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Nyambura Rugoiyo
Jane Torr
Head, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University
Jane Torr
Maria Amigo
Child and Families Research Centre, Macquarie University
Maria Amigo
Liana Ghent
Executive Director of International Step by Step
Liana Ghent
Probak Karim
Director, PLAN
Probak Karim
Kate Ramsay.
Senior Program Manager for Education and Early Childhood Programs at Plan International, Australia
Kate Ramsay.
Lisa Deters
Phd Candidate, Macquarie University