Third Annual International Research-to-Practice Conference - Early Childhood Care and Education

Early Childhood Care and Education: III Annual International Research-to-Practice Conference, 21-23 November, 2013 The Moscow Pedagogical Academy of Preschool Education is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual International Research-to-Practice Conference Early Childhood Care and Education that will be held at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration during 21-23 November 2013 in Moscow, Russia. This year the Conference welcomes Germany as Guest of Honour Country. With the launch of the International Research-to-Practice Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education in 2011, we hope to build on the conversations and partnerships that have nurtured over the past three years with the first ever World Conference on ECCE organized by UNESCO in 2010 in Moscow, and to forge new relationships as we again encourage academics, scholars and practitioners from wide range of disciplines such as psychology, pedagogy, physiology and other sciences to meet and exchange ideas and views in an international forum. The ?onference will include presentations from national and international experts and practitioners from different domains of early childhood care and education, officials of the federal and regional ministries and departments, directors of preschool institutions. Over 800 participants will have an opportunity to attend plenary sessions and professional workshops to discuss current issues of the content and management of preschool education, teacher training, and official educational standards of different countries. Accepted papers will be published free of charge in Procedia - Social and Behavioural Sciences - through ELSEVIER (www.elsevier.com) - which is also included in Scopus, the abstracting and indexing database, and is also currently being evaluated by ISI for SSI Proceedings inclusion. The Conference will also host Preschool education today exhibition-fair, where Russian and foreign companies will have an opportunity to present innovative approaches and technologies, products and services of educational sphere. As part of their commitment to share the outcomes of their scholarly activity as widely as possible, the organizers continue to publish selected papers from this conference in the journal Preschool Education Today: Theory and Practice (http://en.sdo-journal.ru/), the leading Russian resource for issues concerning preschool education. The Conference is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Civic Chamber of The Russian Federation, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, the World Bank, and is organized in cooperation with the Russian Psychological Society, Russian Academy of Education, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Vygotsky Institute of Psychology of Russian State University for the Humanities, and Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities. Dates: 21-23 November, 2013 Venue: The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Address: 82, Prospect Vernadskogo st., Moscow, Russia. Deadlines: 1 October - submission of Papers/Posters 1 November - booking and payment More information http://en.ecceconference.com Contacts: e-mail info@ecceconference.com, Tel. +7 (499) 946-38-05, + 7 (916) 274-65-94