Welcome to POEM
The 5th POEM conference will take place in Gothenburg 12-13 May 2022.
Conference theme
The theme for the conference is Teaching mathematics as to be meaningful – foregrounding play and children’s perspectives. To emphasize the theme we have invited two distinguished keynote speakers: Professor Bert van Oers and Professor Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson. In line with the traditions of the POEM community and to promote constructive discussions, we invite researchers to submit papers for presentations at the conference.
Registration
Deadline for registration has passed.
The POEM 5 conference is organized by the EMELI network - Early Mathematics Education studies of Longitudinal Interventions, funded by the Swedish Research Council (grant no. 2020-03476) and the Faculty of Education at the University of Gothenburg.
Program
The conference starts traditionally with a get-together Dinner (limited number of participants) at Wednesday 11th May, followed by two days of interaction and exchange, keynotes and presentations of research within the field of early mathematics education.
Wednesday 11 May
| 18:45 | Get together dinner at hotel Pigalle in the center of Gothenburg |
Thursday 12 May
| 09:00 | Opening of POEM5 with Keynote: professor Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson |
| 10:20 | Parallel sessions |
| Fika (coffee break) | |
| 11:30 | Parallel sessions |
| Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Parallel sessions |
| Fika (coffee break) | |
| 15:50-16:30 | Parallel sessions |
Friday 13 May
| 09:00 | Parallel sessions |
| Fika (coffee break) | |
| 11:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 11:50 | Keynote: professor Bert van Oers |
| 13:00 | Closing of POEM5 |
| Lunch to go |
Keynote speakers
Bert van Oers
Bert van Oers is Endowed Professor in Cultural-historical Theory of Education at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Educational Studies VU University Amsterdam. He has for the last 25 years significantly contributed to the field of Early Childhood Mathematics Education and from the point of view of Cultural-historical Activity theory (CHAT), developed a play-based curriculum. He has shown, based on empirical studies with preschool and primary school children the fundamentals of learning in play-based environments, particularly conceptualizing the idea of play as motor for mathematics learning – learning mathematics as a meaningful activity. The studies have resulted in what he calls Developmental Education, in which teachers and children are actively engaged in making meaning of phenomena occurring in play.
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson is Senior Professor in Early Childhood Education at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning at University of Gothenburg. She also holds a UNESCO Chair in Early Childhood Education since 2008 and have been the world president of World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) during 6 years. She has during more than 40 years done research on preschool children’s learning and development, and preconditions for learning in ECE. Based on empirical studies in preschools together with preschool teachers, she developed an approach to ECE called Developmental Pedagogy, which is goal directed, but emphasize integration of play and learning. The approach means that children’s own perspectives become central to both research and the pedagogical approach. Her extensive experiences and research embracing the child’s perspective have contributed to deeper understanding of how ECE practices can contribute to children’s mathematics learning, among other content areas.
POEM (A Mathematics Education Perspective on early Mathematics Learning between the Poles of Instruction and Construction) is a conference for researchers within early childhood mathematics education, emphasizing issues concerning in which way – and how much – should children be ‘educated’ in mathematics before entering primary school? In a working atmosphere and in order to maintain a research network in early mathematics learning, researchers have met at POEM conferences in Frankfurt am Main in 2012, Malmö in 2014, Karlsruhe in 2016, Kristiansand in 2018 and now in Gothenburg 2022.
We hereby invite you to contribute with a paper to be presented at the conference. Papers may thereafter be published in a conference proceedings after a peer-review process.
We welcome research-based papers (8 pages) on the topics focusing on, but not limited to:
- Play and children’s perspective in early mathematics education
- Mathematics learning, development, teaching, instruction and education in the early years
- Early Childhood Education and Care practices and contexts for mathematics learning
- Early childhood teachers’ professional development
- Theoretical perspectives on early mathematics education
- Methodological views in research on early mathematics education
Paper submission is now closed but please click here to download template
Please use the template when preparing your paper and follow APA 7th edition . Submitted papers will go through a review to ensure that papers to be presented are in line with the scope of the conference and of sufficient scientific standard. Papers to be published in the proceedings will go through a separate peer-review process after the conference. Authors are expected to act as reviewers.
1st November: Website and submission for papers open
11th February: Deadline for submission of papers on conference website
18th March: Response with suggested revisions or acceptance of paper
13th April: Registration and final uploading of paper submission for presentation
11th May: Conference starting with get-together-dinner (limited number of participants)
12-13th May: Conference days with keynotes and parallel sessions
Hosts
Camilla Björklund and Jessica Elofsson (University of Gothenburg)
Organizing committee
Hanna Palmér (Linnaeus University), Elin Lie Reikerås, (FILIORUM Stavanger University)
Contacts
Jessica Elofsson, e-mail: jessica.elofsson@gu.se
Camilla Björklund, e-mail: camilla.bjorklund@ped.gu.se
Location for the POEM conference
The location for the POEM conference will be at the Faculty of Education, campus Pedagogen, right in the centre of the city.
Address: Läroverksgatan 25, Gothenburg See map
Accomodation
There are many affordable hotels and hostels within walking distance from the Faculty of Education ”Campus Pedagogen”. Please, make sure you reserve your room well in advance, since Gothenburg is a popular city to visit in spring time.
Useful links
Official Visitor’s Guide to Gothenburg
Gothenburg.com - getting to Gothenburg
