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:
The National Academy for Educational Research (NAER) of Taiwan announces its Second Symposium on Agency and Learning, as part of a cooperative project between the NAER, the University of Helsinki, and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The symposium will be held on the Taipei campus of the NAER. The dates of the Symposium are May 14-15, 2013. The deadlines for abstracts, papers and other information about the conference can be found in here. The book of first conference on Agency and Learning can be found here.
An article by Reunamo, J., Sajaniemi, N., Suhonen, E & Kontu, E. Cortisol Levels and Children’s Orientation in Day Care has been published in a Routledge book Early Child Care and Education in Finland. The editors of the book are Kaarina Määttä and Satu Uusiautti. More info about the book and ordering info from http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415635912/. Book can be bought for example from Amazon. The data is from the Orientation project and the idea of the article is that children’s orientations are central in children’s coping with stress.
The conference at the National Academy for Educational Research is set for 13th and 14th May 2013. The conference aims for a larger audience on the theme of Agency and Learning. The conference will take place in Sanxia. The web-address for NAER is http://www.naer.edu.tw/. The conference book for the previous 2010 conference can be accessed here.
The Orientation conference will be held at Tzu-Chi University in Taiwan on 18th May 2013. In the conference we will share development tasks between Finland and Taiwan. There will be examples on development tasks on outdoor play, rule breaking behaviors, withdrawn behaviors. There will be also round table discussions and a keynote on the project theme. The conference aims to make a close contact between theory, research and work in practice. There will be participants from ten municipalities in Finland and researchers from the University of Helsinki. From Taiwan there will be researchers, practitioners and students participating the conference. The contact person for the conference is Dr Hui-Chun Lee (gwenlee (at) tcu.edu.tw).
Orientation project was present in the National ECE exhibition in many ways. The participating municipalities presented the project results and there was a lecture on children’s physical orientation at the Nuori Suomi seminar. Also the simulation project with Wolfram Demonstrations was presented at the exhibition
A memorandum was signed at the University of Helsinki to commemorate the new co-operation between Chang Gung University and University of Helsinki. The possibilities for student exchange, shared conferences and publications were examined. The first articles have been started. A plan for visiting students in 2013 was established. The preparations for a conference in May 2013 were started. We thank Professor Li-Chen Wang in Chang Gung and welcome her again soon! The english web-pages of Chung Gung University are here.
We concentrate on the organizing of the conference in Taiwan 2013, teacher exchange and article writing. We plan to make rich and approachable contents in the conferences at the National Academy of Educational Research and Tzu-Chi University.