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On behalf of the UBC Early Childhood Education Program and the Institute for Early Childhood Education and Research, we extend a warm welcome to all attendees of the SPARK: The Early Years Conference. SPARK 2019 was conceived and developed by a dedicated team of UBC graduate students, and it has been their intention from the outset to bring together people interested and invested in the field of early childhood. Your presence at and participation in this conference will be the culmination of their vision and hard work, and we are delighted to welcome conference participants representing a wide range of professional and educational backgrounds from across Canada and beyond.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re very excited also to welcome the keynote presenter, Professor Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, from the\u00a0Faculty of Education at Western University<\/a>\u00a0in Ontario, Canada. We are sure you\u2019ll find her ideas stimulating and thought-provoking, and we suspect they may cause you to \u201clisten to children\u201d in new ways.<\/p>\n To those of you who are travelling here from near or far: We hope you enjoy this beautiful campus in springtime. Welcome to SPARK 2019!<\/p>\n Janet R. Jamieson, Ph.D Margot Filipenko, Ph.D On behalf of the UBC Early Childhood Education Program and the Institute for Early Childhood Education and Research, we extend a warm welcome to all attendees of the SPARK: The Early Years Conference. SPARK 2019 was conceived and developed by a dedicated team of UBC graduate students, and it has been their intention from the … Continue reading Welcome!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27284,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDirector, UBC Institute for Early Childhood Education and Research<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDirector, UBC Early Childhood Education Program<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"