ECE SIG DAY - Sunday 24th November
"Weaving Words: The Power of Storytelling in Early Childhood Literacy"
To stimulate discussion, we invite students to bring a poster for the poster session (this can be something you have presented before).
Posters will not be reviewed before the SIG day. Please indicate when you register if you will be bringing a poster.
Here is the planned agenda for the day:
9:30am NZEI will be hosting a morning workshop session prior to our ECE SIG day events beginning at. This workshop will bring together ECE kaiako and activists for quality ECE, alongside representatives from the New Zealand Labour Party, The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, and Te Pāti Māori to discuss current issues facing the ECE sector.
There is no cost to attend this and lunch will be provided: You will need to register for this separately to the ECE day through the NZEI website.
For any queries about the NZEI event please email Kirsty.McCully@nzei.org.nz
1:00 - 1:30 Welcome and onsite registration for ECE SIG & light refreshments.
1:30 – 2:30 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Amanda White.
2:30 – 3:30 Student posters with further light refreshments.
3:30 – 4:00 AGM
4:00 – 4:30 Closing discussions and thoughts.
Keynote Speaker - Amanda White
Amanda currently works as a Kairangahau | Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER).
Her research interests include:
Multimodal communication
Early childhood literacies
Oral language development
Home-education partnerships
Sociocultural perspectives on learning
Amanda’s PhD research explored story interactions in a culturally and lingusitically diverse community of Aotearoa New Zealand. For this research, Amanda used video methods to explore multimodal story interactions between 1-year-old toddlers and others in their family homes and early childhood education (ECE) settings.
Amanda is currently leading a project in partnership with the Hutt City Kindergarten Association to explore the story interactions of tamarik aged 2-5 years in equity-funded kindergartens. This project involves gaining multiple perspectives through interviews with whānau, kaiako and senior leaders, well as video observations of tamariki in their kindergarten settings.
Prior to becoming a researcher, Amanda worked as a speech-language therapist for over 20 years, with experience working in both New Zealand and UK education systems (Scotland and England).