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Upcoming events

CAREC @ CSSE 2026

CAREC presentations will be part of the upcoming CSSE’s 54th annual conference that will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The conference includes an online-only day for those unable to attend in person.

CAREC Pre-Conference

CAREC Pre-Conference will take place on May 30, 2026 at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba and will also include 2 virtual study sessions ahead of the event. The call is now open.

Pre-conference registration (separate from CSSE conference registration) will open in April 2026.

CAREC membership

To become a member of CAREC, please register for CSSE and CAREC membership via CSSE member portal. Members need to register for both CSSE and CAREC; see About page for details

CSSE membership portal

2024 CAREC Pre-Conference Event

with Dr. Erin Manning and collaborators Diego Gil, Andre Bocchetti, and Khadija Baker

We are very grateful to all who joined CAREC’s Pre-Conference Conversations at CSSE 2024 in Montreal in May 2024. At the gathering, Inciting and Sustaining Radical Dialogues in Early Childhood Research, 34 early childhood researchers thought together with Dr. Erin Manning and collaborators Diego Gil, Andre Bocchetti, and Khadija Baker. We worked with a collection of quotes, reading them aloud, responding together, and imagining what our collective engagement with these quotes might spark for our shared and uncommon commitments to early childhood in Canada.

Erin Manning @ Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood (CAREC) event

Following this, we participated in smaller conversations that were anchored by three questions:

How might we address the most urgent concerns, issues, or discourses that inform early childhood research in Canada?
How might our research generate and articulate pedagogies relevant to early childhood in Canada?
How do we encounter, influence, or intervene in politics and policies through research in early childhood in Canada?