Engaging ideas
Engaging Ideas is a unique knowledge sharing initiative of the Department of Communities. At these events, eminent academics and practitioners from Queensland, Australia and overseas present to an audience of key researchers, practitioners and decision makers from the public and private sectors. They share the latest research findings in areas such as social policy, community engagement and community development, and other topics that relate to the Department of Communities core business.
The events are held monthly, however, there is a break over the Christmas/New Year period.
Upcoming presenters for 2007 include:
- Mr Matthew Manning: Methodology for measuring the cost utility of early childhood developmental intervention.
- Paul Mazerolle: Violence Research and Prevention Program
- Catherine Hain: Organisational effectiveness and performance measurement in a non-profit organisation.
Recent Seminars included:
Professor Collette Tayler, ‘Public Investment in Early Childhood: Limitations and Policy Choices.’
Collette Tayler is a professor in the School of Early Childhood and researcher in the Centre for Learning Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane. Collette does cross-national research on the ways that social, family, educational and economic policies effect early childhood education and care outcomes.
Based on the OECD volume Starting Strong II (September 2006), Collette’s seminar examined different rationales, theories and programs for investing in early childhood across OECD countries. Current Australian approaches are discussed. How Australia develops early childhood policy options and choices, and determines future investments, will depend on the family, work and child learning constructs that prevail in Australian society. Despite a weight of international research evidence, significant investments to raise program quality remain contested and it is proposed policies remain rooted in outmoded ideas about children and families.
Summaries of other past events can be found at: http://www.getinvolved.qld.gov.au/share_your_knowledge/training/ideas.html
Members of INSPIRE are notified of all forthcoming Engaging Ideas events and these events will also be posted on the Department of Communities Infonet.
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