Date: Saturday 6th November 2004 Venue: Jury’s Inn, Birmingham Topic: Developing the Reflective Practitioner: the Challenge for Trainers Prof. Emeritus Tricia David challenged us to consider whether we are providing training or education and, if training, for what? She stated that education enables the practitioner to reflect, to read around the theory and practice and asked whether we encourage students to go out and find out or whether we tell them what to think.…
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Date: Friday 4th and Saturday 5th November 2005 Venue: The Thistle Hotel, Cardiff Topic: Birth to Eight Matters: Seeking Seamlessness – Continuity? Integration? Creativity? Speakers: Ruth Pimentel, Prof. Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Prof. Carol Aubrey and Ros Bayley and team. If you would like to view the presentations made by Ruth Pimentel, Iram Siraj-Blatchford and Carol Aubrey, please click on the individual’s name.…
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Date: 6th May 2006 Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University This Conference was a great success. It was the first regional conference for TACTYC. Our annual conferences and AGM are held in November each year but the Executive wanted to develop a new initiative for a Spring event.…
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Date: 4th November 2006 Venue: Novotel, Birmingham Topic: Birth to Eight Matters: Reading Between the Lines Our 2006 Annual Conference and AGM got off to an excellent start with Prof. Lesley Abbott OBE (Manchester Metropolitan University), our current President, reminding us of the importance of words such as ‘matters’ and ‘communication’ in relation to both TACTYC and the early years. …
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Date: Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November 2007 Venue: The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton Topic: Play, Diversity and Heritage in the Early Years Our annual 2007 Conference and AGM began on Friday evening with a welcome and introduction from our Chair, Professor Pat Broadhead.…
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Date: 26th April 2008 Venue: Anglia Ruskin University Chelmsford Topic: Happy and Healthy Children Play Outdoors This was a lively, interesting, informative and practical Conference attended by around 80 delegates of whom a number were TACTYC members and the rest were drawn from around the Essex region.…
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Date: 8th November 2008 Venue: Novotel, Broad Street, Birmingham Topic: Not Just Choosing: Respecting and Supporting Children’s Play This year’s oversubscribed conference was clearly a joy for the majority of its 150+ keen delegates: “Absolutely terrific keynotes! Did me good and gave me what I wanted from the day – to expand my own knowledge and thinking.”…
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Date: 6th and 7th November 2009 Venue: Milton Keynes Topic: Inspiring Practice in Early Education: Research, Reflection, Debate. With almost a hundred delegates, the buzz at this year’s Conference was amazing. Our three keynotes were (see below) extremely well received. Each of them offered a very distinctive and highly informed presentation that is now available on this website – you can find them here.…
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Date: 13th November 2010 Venue: Novotel, Broad Street, Birmingham Topic: Grounds for play: exploring risk in the outdoor early years environment. Over 100 delegates attended this year’s excellent conference and, of those, 42 were present at the AGM – a really good turnout all round.…
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Date: 11th and 12th November 2011 Venue: Marriott Hotel, Tadcaster Road, York, YO24 1QQ Topic: ‘Ready’ for School? Research, Reflection and Debate. A research into practice conference Yet again, it seems that TACTYC pulled out all the stops and created a stunning conference.…
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Date: Saturday, 10th November 2012 Venue: The International Conference Centre, Birmingham Topic: Developing Early Years Practice: Reflecting on developments in practice and research TACTYC Conference goes from strength to strength Early years educators this year’s TACTYC conference experienced yet another outstanding opportunity to be stimulated, challenged and supported in their professional development.…
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Title: The Early Years Continuum: Exploring and valuing high quality practice and research in early years Dates: Friday, 1st and Saturday, 2nd November 2013 Venue: The International Convention Centre (ICC), Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA, UK Keynote by Vasudevi Reddy | Early Years editors’ Journal report | Chair’s report | Website report We enjoyed another highly successful TACTYC Conference and AGM in 2013, with the International Convention Centre, Birmingham as our venue for the second year running.…
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