Tenth Symposium: Childhood and Society IV

21–23 October 2010, Bregenz Festival Opera House

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Child’s World initiative and its International Symposium that is supported by a network of excellent partners. We are pleased to look back at 10 years of cooperation with the members of our partner organizations: Workgroup for Preventive and Social Medicine, Caritas, Institute for Social Services, SOS Children’s Villages. In the year 2000 we dealt with Childhood and Trauma and went on to discuss the prevention of trauma in a symposium entitled Childhood and Society in 2007. These symposia have allowed us to open a cross-disciplinary and cross-organizational dialog with the aim of bringing together the experience of people who work on a daily basis with children in different cultures and comparing this practical experience with the latest scientific findings in a variety of disciplines (children’s developmental psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, sociology, ecology, economy, cultural studies, etc.).

Providing this framework for communication has allowed us to help people make better informed decisions in caring for children and to support several collaboration projects throughout the years. We express our sincere thanks to all of you who have contributed to making this fascinating forum of learning possible.

The tenth anniversary symposium will allow us to focus on best practice in various disciplines and stages of children’s development and compare this with findings in the neurosciences, psycho-social sciences, children’s rights and the economy.

We are pleased to announce the contributions of:
Gertrude Bogyi (Austria), Adele Diamond (Canada), Melinda A. Meyer (Norway), Gerald Hüther (Germany), Margaret Nkrumah (Ghana), Lothar Krappmann (Germany), Franz Resch (Germany), Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu (Turkey), Christiana Brown (Ghana/Great Britain), Karin Haubrich (Germany), Hilarion Petzold (Germany), Christian Alt (Germany). Presentations of best practice will be provided by Sabine Hebenstreit-Müller/Integrative Family Centers (Germany), Jörg Maywald/Parents Education and Emotional Learning of Children (Germany), Gyles Morris/Naturesbase.com (Great Britain), Klaus Feßmann, resonance – acceptance (Germany/Austria), Ibrahim Ismail/Paidaia (Germany), Philipp Oechsli / Foster Care and Participation (Switzerland), Arno Stern/der Malort (France), Mekbul Jemal (Ethiopia/Adugna).

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