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Another RECE excursion exploring children's spaces. Always a big thanks to local teachers and ece settings welcoming us into their places and to the host committees for arranging these excursions.

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Mimi at the River Boyne on RECE excursion - understanding contexts and places.

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Great conference, great presenters and such a super-relevant (RECE) slide title in the background:  "Questions and are there answers?"

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End of the conference reception and celebration

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The Bethlehem conference was very special in so many ways. Here is a group from Norway just after our collective presentation.

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Evolution of concepts and ideas, critical and reconceptionist, feminist, new materialism, and on....

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So many special moments with amazing my grad cousins, my grad family, my grad grandpa and the scholars from different universities. Feeling home at RECE!

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Fun times after great presentations - My first RECE meeting

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Such new ways to think. And do research! Thank you Joe Tobin!

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Fabulous Host -Co-Chair Michele Salazar Perez and Program Chair Cinthya Savaadra

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Some of the "earlier" RECE or reconceptualist publications--many discussed topics at RECE and some of which started as symposia or plenaries at RECE conferences

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Some of the "earlier" RECE or reconceptualist publications--many discussed topics at RECE and some of which started as symposia or plenaries at RECE conferences

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RECE 2010-sharing ideas, working together and forming long term relationships-Cheryl Rau, Jenny Ritchie, Mere Skerret and Mimi Bloch

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Dr. Lourdes Diaz Soto was also a recipient of the Bloch Distinguished Career Award at this meeting!

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Dr. Gaile S. Cannella was one of the recipients of the Bloch Distinguished Award this year.

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A group shot with many of RECE founders and attendees of its first meetings.

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My first RECE conference was Kent State 2014 as a graduate student! A big shout out to Sonya Gaches who let me introduce a session that forever changed my life.
Miriam

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CUNY Graduate Center reunion!

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Fun times with my pals Lacey and Beth!

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A great last conference! Ashley, Flora,Lacey, Beth, Miriam and Mara

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1991 partial Group Photo amd Conference Program

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1991 partial Group Photo amd Conference Program

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one of the many sessions where we learned together in Nairobi

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The host committee chair, Dr. John Ng'asike

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My (Jonathan Silin) first encounters with RECE were at the second conference, Chicago, 1992. Two of my new Bank Street Colleagues at the time, Harriet Cuffaro and Steve Schultz, suggested that I attend with them.Three memories from the conference:

1) As we entered the opening reception, before we even crossed the threshold, Mimi Bloch greeted us with out stretched arms and proclaimed, “Here comes Bank Street.” These words ring in my ears today as they signal the warm and welcoming posture that characterizes RECE.

In 1985 I had left ECE because no one wanted to take a chance on hiring a scholar committed to a radical critique of developmental theory. Now Mimi’s greeting, RECE’s promise, finally offered a home in the world of ECE.

2) Later that night I found myself seated in a circle of 25 or 30 next to Sharon Ryan, then a brilliant doc student at Teachers College. When responding to the group query about our reasons for attending the conference, Sharon quipped “to meet “megas” in the field like Jonathan Silin.”

Needless to say, Sharon’s comment took me back. Having spent much of the preceding decade outside the field immersed in AIDS education and advocacy I hardly considered myself a “mega” in ECE. But unbeknownst to me, I was known to others.

3)  The next day I met Joe Tobin through his heated exchange with Sue Bredekamp, author of the 1987 NAEYC DAP document, captured for posterity on Mimi Bloch’s video. Joe would become a wonderful friend and colleague to say nothing of the amazing graduate students who I came to know through him (See RECE 1994, Durham New Hampshire).

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RECE was never really good at social distancing ...

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Fabulous Programme Committee - Kylie, Lacey and Sonya

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Beth Swadener with the University of Auckland Crew - Kiri, Angel and Ali