{"id":6,"date":"2017-01-17T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2018-11-27T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:22:14","slug":"supporting-practice-advocacy-research-and-knowledge-the-early-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/","title":{"rendered":"Second UBC Biennial Early Childhood Graduate Student Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>May 10-11th, 2019<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Ponderosa Commons, UBC, Vancouver<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Welcome! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPARK is a two-day graduate student-run conference that brings together people interested in early childhood education and care to contribute to a wider discussion around the challenges, understandings, experiences, and insights in the field of early childhood (birth to 8 years old). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With more than 140 participants, in its first edition,\u00a0SPARK\u00a02017 offered graduate students, early\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">childhood educators, advocates, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders and professionals a creative space to share, discuss and collaborate on the current challenges, accomplishments, and promising practices in the early years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, SPARK will offer concurrent presentation sessions, workshops, and poster presentations, and have the honour\u00a0of having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veronicapaciniketchabaw.com\/\">Professor Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw<\/a> as our keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2019 conference theme is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Surfacing Connections &amp; Challenging Divides:<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Research, Policy, and Practice <\/b><b>in Early Childhood Education and Care<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/files\/2017\/01\/Kathie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-193\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/files\/2017\/01\/Kathie-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/files\/2017\/01\/Kathie-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/files\/2017\/01\/Kathie-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/files\/2017\/01\/Kathie-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/files\/2017\/01\/Kathie.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10-11th, 2019 Ponderosa Commons, UBC, Vancouver Welcome! SPARK is a two-day graduate student-run conference that brings together people interested in early childhood education and care to contribute to a wider discussion around the challenges, understandings, experiences, and insights in the field of early childhood (birth to 8 years old). \u00a0 With more than 140 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second UBC Biennial Early Childhood Graduate Student Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12761,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","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\/12761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sparkece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}