The 2010 annual conference will be held in Hangzhou, China on July 25-27, 2010. The conference theme is "Early Childhood Education in a Changing World." Deadline for submitting conference proposals is March 15, 2010. For details, please visit the conference site.

We are proud to announce the launch of the PECERA journal: ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. The journal accepts manuscripts all year round. Interested authors, please go to publication for more details.

Introducding the new President of PECERA

Dr. Won Young Rhee was elected the new president of PECERA at its annual conference in July 2008. Dr. Rhee is Professor Emeritus of Early Childhood Education at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, where she taught for 33 years. She received her master's degrees from Ewha Womans University in Seoul and the University of Washington in Seattle, and her doctorate in Early Childhood Education from Ewha Womans University. After receiving her master's degree, she decided to work as a kindergarten teacher in order to acquire practical knowledge. She joined the faculty of the College of Education of Chung-Ang University in 1975.

Dr Rhee's research and academic fields of interest are child-centered philosophy and education, and parent education. She has published many books for parents and has carried out extensive research in the field of early childhood education, mostly in Korean. From 1983 to 1984 she spent a sabbatical year at Sheffield University in the U.K., where she learned the child-centered teaching method of open education. Dr. Rhee worked in Korea extensively to improve the quality of young children's lives and the quality of early childhood education by persuading the Ministry of Education to pass the Early Childhood Education Act in 2004. She worked as a member of advisers' committees for two different presidents from 1996 to 1998, and from 1999 to 2003 for educational reform in Korea. In addition, she was president of the Korean Society for Early Childhood Education for five years from 1991 to 1995 and also was president of OMEP Korean Committee for three years.

Her goal for PECERA is to help improve the quality of research and Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific region.

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