Welcome to the first post
conference issue of The Educator. As Vice-President, one of my primary
responsibilities is for the ICEVI publications in all their various formats.
The Educator is our flagship publication and this edition is the third produced
in the new layout developed by my predecessor
I‘d like to begin by paying
tribute to Harry for all his hard work and to our previous editor Ken Stuckey
for his tremendous contribution to the development of The Educator. My job will
be to try to maintain the high standards set by my predecessors and to continue
their mission to establish The Educator as a provider of high quality
information – a publication that offers the best ideas from academics and
practitioners and that reflects the perspectives of parents and educators in
our field.
The Educator must, of course, be
global in its scope. I am only just beginning to get to grips with the
international scale and complexity of the organisation required to produce The
Educator. My computer provides evidence for this worldwide complexity - one
direct result of my new post is that my already substantial daily email
correspondence has doubled in size! The
editorial and production team spans the globe and this week I have been in
regular correspondence with new friends in
I’d like to thank everyone
involved in the preparation, production and distribution of this edition and to
all our contributors. I hope you enjoy reading this and that you will think
about submitting contributions to future issues yourself. If you have any items
that you would like considered or suggestions about how you would like to see
The Educator develop, please send them to me.
Planning for the next edition is
already underway. We will continue to build
around themes and the next Educator will be concerned with issues of
inclusion. Don’t forget that you can access previous editions of The Educator
through the ICEVI website and also look at previous editions of Newsline in our on-line publication. Happy
Steve McCall
Editor