The International Society for Child Indicators (ISC) and the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, University of Western Sydney will host the second conference of the ISCI and the Symposium on Children as Experts in their Own Lives. It will be held in Sydney, Australia. The ISCI conference Counting Children In! Child Indicators: Research, Theory, Policy and Practice is planned for the 4th and 5th of November.
The themes which will structure the conference are:
- Theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues in the development of child indicators
- Measurement issues at levels of individual, family, community and globally
- Diversity as a challenge to the construction and implementation of indicators.
There will be expert speakers from a range of backgrounds, contributed paper streams, and opportunities for dialogue and networking.
The ISCI conference will be preceded by a one-day (3rd Nov) Social Justice Social Change Research Centre (UWS) Symposium, on “Children as experts in their own lives: Child Inclusive Research’. Plans for this symposium include hearing from children and from adult policymakers and academics on the topic of child research, in plenary and panel sessions and in contributed papers.
These events are being hosted by the University of Western Sydney. For more information, visit: www.isci09.com
For more information, download the conference flier.
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