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Join CAREC  Executive Committee 2026-2028

We are pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood (CAREC) / L’Association Canadienne de Recherche en Petite Enfance (ACRPE) Executive Committee positions for 2026 - 2028.

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We are seeking committed individuals who are passionate about advancing early childhood education and research in Canada to serve in one of the following positions:

  1. Vice-President(s) (1-2 positions)

  2. Secretary-Treasurer (1 position)

  3. Communications Director (1 position)

  4. Graduate Student Representative (2 positions)

  5. Members at Large (4 positions)

To submit your candidacy for the Executive Committee, please complete this self-nomination form by 11:55pm (EDT) on Monday, April 20, 2026.

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Each nomination must include a brief statement (limit: 150 words) outlining your interest in the role, qualifications, and relation to the field of early childhood research in Canada.

While candidates are identified by self-nomination, if you have a colleague who you think would make a strong contribution to the CAREC Executive Committee, please contact them and share this self-nomination form. While we are working with self-nominations only, these do not have to be done in isolation and members can support potential candidates to complete the nomination form.

 

â—¤ Please click here to review detailed election information. This includes eligibility criteria and descriptions for each Executive Committee role. The Executive Committee election process is formalized in the CAREC Constitution (Item 9). 


â—¤ Following the self-nomination period, CAREC members will select candidates for the Executive Committee through an online election from Monday, April 27 to Tuesday, May 5, 2026. We will contact successful candidates and announce election results by email to the CAREC community in mid-May. The incoming 2026-2028 Executive Committee will be introduced at the CAREC Annual General Meeting on June 2 during the CSSE 2026 Conference. 


Thank you for your continued support and dedication to CAREC. We look forward to continuing to work together!

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The 2026 call for graduate research awards nominations is now open

The Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood is pleased to invite submissions for the CAREC graduate student research awards.

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Deadline to submit: March 24, 2026. ​

For more information, including eligibility requirements, selection criteria, submission details, and adjudication process, please review the complete calls, in English and French >>

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â–  Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood (CAREC) Graduate Research Awards 2026

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â–  Association Canadienne de recherche en petite enfance (ACRPE) Prix d’excellence en recherche pour les étudiants et étudiantes des cycles supérieurs 2026

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Call for Participants

Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood 2026 Pre-Conference

 

Studying Artifacts of Early Childhood Education Research in Canada: Continuing the Project of Inciting and Sustaining Radical Dialogues

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We invite graduate students and early career scholars to participate in the CAREC Pre-Conference on May 30, 2026 at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba and 2 virtual study sessions ahead of the event. 

 

Participants will pose a concern or concept– drawn from CAREC’s commitments, constitution, archival documents, or other artifacts– that summon the inheritances of early childhood education research in Canada. We want to ask: What concepts, inheritances, tensions, or possibilities within the landscape of early childhood research in Canada demand our attention, refusal, rethinking, or reinvention?

 

At the pre-conference, participants will not “present” research in a conventional sense, but will instead offer a proposition (which may be a disruptive, generative, possibly radical provocation) that will invite the pre-conference attendees into shared acts of study during the afternoon breakout sessions. Propositions should be accompanied by an artifact that will gather us; for example, a reading excerpt, gesture, image, word, performance, question, or another object for collective study.

 

Continuing CAREC’s move toward feminist, anti-extractive conferencing practices, graduate student/early career scholar participants will be supported with critical companionship from submission through to the study group at the pre-conference. â€‹

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Graduate Student Submission Guide for CAREC at CSSE

In this guide, you’ll find information about: â—¥ Submitting Proposals â—¥ Types of Sessions â—¥ Tips for Preparing Your Submission â—¥ Preparing Your Submission â—¥ Abstract Advice â—¥ Reminders â—¥ Reviewer Criteria â—¥ Contact information â—¥ Appendix A: Sample Abstracts Appendix B: Sample Proposals

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