The Department of Child Education and Care at Chang Gung University of Science and Technology organized a seminar on Children’s Living and Learning ~ from children’s perspectives in May 10th 2013. The seminar was an unusually succesful sharing of research findings. We also found mutual interests and seek to collaborate in the near future. The seminar outlook can be retrieved in here. The presentations will be published in the blog soon.
2013 International Conference on Agency and learning took place 14-15 May 2013. The conference was thought-provoking and fruitful. The conference handbook can be retrieved here. Thank you all at the National Academy of Educational Research and especially Rosalind Wu. It was amazing to see tentative ideas from 2008 becoming reality in 2013.
The National Academy of Educational Research in Taiwan organizes the second symposium on Agency and Learning in May 2013. The conference has four presentations from Finland:
The fruits of the development work are presented in the International Conference at National Dong Hwa University in Hualien Taiwan at 18th May. The Finnish presentations are below:
30000 0bservations of children’s physical activity in day care was made in 2010. Now the three first articles on the results have been published. The articles are:
Jyrki Reunamo visited Hong Kong Institute of Education 25th May – 3rd June to share research initiatives and to present development tasks. Concrete research initiatives and development projects were started, mutual interests found and the future collaboration looks fruitful, to say the least. There are things we can learn from each other and there are interesting things that we can compare and get perspective on. In a blog it is not possible to elaborate on the possibilities. The project will reveal itself bit by bit as the process advances. In the picture below you can see a gym in a day care center in Hong Kong.