Conferences

Recent conference presentations include:

  • "When Learning Comes ‘Naturally’: Nurturing Children’s Connection to the Environment”: Featured Session at the 2009 National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference
  • "When Learning Comes Naturally”: Workshop and Roundtable at the 2009 Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting
  • "RePlay: Reviewing the Design and Recreating the Process of an Innovative Play Program”: Workshop at the 2009 National Association for the Education of Young Children Professional Development Institute
  • “The Culture of Playwork from the U.K. to the U.S.”: Panel presented at the 2009 Association of Children’s Museums InterActivity Conference

Past conferences sponsored by the Child Development Institute include:

Dr. Edward F. Zigler2005: Confronting the Crises in Education
Dr. Edward F. Zigler, Director of Yale's Center in Child Development and Social Policy and Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, delivered the keynote address, America’s Move to Universal Preschool Education. Four successive panels comprised the program: Early Education: Problems and Prospects; Issues of Equity, Standards, and School Policy; Class, Race; and Ethnic Identities; and Revisioning Schools.

Read the write-up of Confronting the Crises in Education that appeared in the May 2005 edition of Education Update.

1993: Revisioning Multiculturalism in Education
Co-sponsored with the Michael Harrington Center, Queens College, CUNY. Troy Duster, Ph.D., and Maxine Greene, Ph.D., keynote speakers.

1991: Visions in Education
Thomas Sobol, Ed.D., and Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, Ph.D., keynote speakers.

1989: Childhood and Social Policy
Edward Zigler, Ph.D., and T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., keynote speakers.

1987: The Child and the Environment: Home, School and Neighborhood
Brian Sutton-Smith, Ph.D., Roger Hart, Ph.D., and Leanne Rivlin, M.D., keynote speakers.

1984: Implications of Separation: Individuation Theory for the Care and Education of Very Young Children
Margaret S. Mahler, M.D., John B. McDevitt, M.D., and Anni Bergman, Ph.D., keynote speakers.