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Welcome to the IPA USA 2024 Conference, The Right to Play, RIGHT NOW! To ensure ease in registration, here are a few tricks.

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PreConference Session – Wednesday, September 25 – 9:30-2:30 pm
Connecting Children with Nature: A Practical Workshop for Educators
Follow this link to register for the preconference——https://events.humanitix.com/connecting-children-workshop

Looking forward to seeing you in Greenville, SC

Deb, President, IPA USA



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Early Childhood LIberatory Pedagogy: Freedom for All Through Play
Friday September 27, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Library C 25 Heritage Green Pl, Greenville, SC 29601
Concepts like liberatory, emancipatory, and decolonized pedagogies are often used when working with older students, but these ideas are rarely applied to early childhood education. In this presentation, I outline the need for early childhood education and care to center liberation and freedom in order to foster whole child development. In misguided efforts to prepare children for school, early childhood practices have disrupted optimal development, severed our natural desires to learn, and led to teacher demoralization and demotivation. I offer early childhood liberatory pedagogy through play as a framework to free us all.
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Denisha Jones

Dr. Denisha Jones is the Executive Director of Defending the Early Years and an adjunct professor at Sarah Lawrence College and Howard University. Her research interests include organizing activist research projects that examine grassroots movements to achieve racial justice in education... Read More →
Friday September 27, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Library C 25 Heritage Green Pl, Greenville, SC 29601
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