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| RECE is less an organization than an evolving
group of early childhood educators who come together each year to
discuss cutting edge research, theory, and practice. We are not
incorporated. There are no dues (other than the annual conference
fee). There is no official publication (other than this web site).
We have no board or officers (other than the folks who volunteer
at each conference to host and organize the conference the following
year). |
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| We came together at the beginning, and we continue
to gather each year, because we value having an opportunity to participate
in sessions and to engage in conversations which are unlikely to
occur at "regular" conferences such as NAEYC and AERA. In fact,
it was frustration with the format, size, and conservatism of NAEYC
and AERA which originally brought many of us together, and gave
us the motivation to start the RECE conference and keep it running
from one year to the next. |
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| Despite a lack of formal organization and a haphazard
way of operating, each year for the last seven years, miraculously,
the conference has occurred, drawing between 80-100 people. Whether
we meet in a big city or small, in the center of the U.S., on one
of the coasts, or even in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with
careful planning and foresight, or last minute arrangements, we
end up with a stimulating conference, which draws 80-100 people.
Not the same 80-100 people, but a healthy mix of returnees and new
blood. |
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| The conference planning has sometimes been stormy.
It is in the planning sessions, which are held during and after
the conference each year, at dinners during AERA, and via conference
calls and E-mail exchanges, that the conference program takes place.
The call for papers and resulting selection and session organization
process has been a site where we reconceptualizing have talked,
disagreed, and sometimes fought pitched battles. Subjects of discussion
and debate have included such issues as the name and focus of our
organization; the radicality of year each's call; the selectivity/exclusivity
of the review process; the emphasis given to theory, research, and
practice; and the tension between meeting the needs and desires
of presenters versus audience members. The way these issues play
out each year has some effect on who attends the conference and
acts as chair the following year. |
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Many publications have come out of the conference.
These publications, in turn, have given our loosely organized organization
some attention, notoriety, and influence. We are now sometimes referred
to as
the reconceptualizers. |
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