Mesquita, CristinaOliveira-Formosinho, Júlia2011-06-012011-06-012010Mesquita-Pires, Cristina; Oliveira-Formosinho, Júlia (2010). Learn to listen and give voice to children. In 20th EECERA Conference: European Early Childhood Education Research Association. Knowledge and voice in early childhood: who knows, who speaks, who listens? Birminghamhttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/4818The focus of the study lies in the development of a praxis that claims that the child as an individual with competence and rights to participate. It relates to EEL Project (Pascal & Bertram, 1999) and to DQP (Oliveira-Formosinho, 2002, 2009), which supports the present study, by enhancing the development of children, practitioners and institutions. This study focuses on a professional development theory that links the action to the context, sustaining an ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner, 1987). The study locates itself in the qualitative paradigm (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000) an is conducted through a constractivistic case study (Oliveira-Formosinho & Kishimoto, 2002). Data is collected before and after the change processes and impact is evaluated through some of the EEL techniquesengChild participationAction researchEcological changeSupervisionLong-tearm developmentconference poster