Research around the world

The website I explored was Early childhood Australia: 

I felt this website was definitely the Australia version of NAEYC. I totally felt that while exploring it.
Some of the current international research topics I noticed were: Family daycare in Australia and to asses its quality and identify pertinent topics for future research.
Literacy is another topic of research and even in Australia they know the importance of early literacy experiences and how that affects future literacy development.

Some of the surprising facts are that even in Australia they support the "Learning through play practice, we know how important it is and to know that it is an international movement is insightful.

And I think it is insightful that Earlychilhood is important on so many levels and in so many other countries.

I found the website interesting in general to see the code of ethics and just all the same things that our website contains.

http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au

Benefits to children and their families.

I Grew up  in a military family, my father was a marine for 28 years. We moved around constantly to new duty stations, I remember one duty station in Maryland when my father was in school and we only staid for 6 months, I was enrolled in school for 6 months. Other duty stations were anywhere from a year with the majority being three year duty stations. The changes for me a shy child were very hard to adjust to, it was a little better when we moved during the summer because that gave me time to make friends in the neighborhood and not be so "new" when school started back. But then there were the times when we would move to a new duty station during Christmas break.
I paint this picture to say that if I could  conduct research it would be to study the effect on children of military parents and the effects of the constant moving of duty stations and the absence of parents and the effect that has on the child and the social emotional development and the relationship building capabilities of these children in the future.

I would hope that the positive contribution of this research would help families to learn what they could do in these types of situations to foster strong relationship building skills and support social emotional skills.

Personal Research Journey so Far.

The journey so far has been tough for me for various reasons and I am playing catch up. I have chosen  topic:
Ways to promote social inclusion and respect for diversity in Early Childhood. I feel like that is too broad so I will have to figure out how to break that down into something doable.Does anyone who might go back to read this have any help with narrowing that down for something I can research for this class?

Week 8 Final Blog

As I reflect on this final blog assignment in this class and the things I have learned from the readings of the resources and that of the post of my classmates I have learned alot about this issues and about the trends and about myself

The consequences of learning about the international side of early childhood education is knowing that our concerns are the same but yet somehow different then our colleges on the other side of the country and we cannot always solve all of these problems we just have to do what we can to make a difference in the children's lives.

That our roles as educators are not any different basically from those across the world

I have learned so much about the different cultures and that has made me aware and leads to my goals of learning more about the different cultures and being aware of the issues related to children in other cultures.

Week7 Blog Assignment: Getting to Know Your International Contacts

Blog Assignment: Getting to Know Your International Contacts

While exploring the site for the UNESCO (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/), I learned that they have a commitment to putting education at the heart of development and that it was established in 1945. And that this organization helps to reform their education systems at all levels of education and I also read how it promotes literacy as a human right and the basis for lifelong learning.

References

 (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/),

Week 6 Sharing Web Resources

http://www.buildinitiative.org/ 

is the link I was led to from my website. The build initiative builds a strong foundation for our children. This website has a vast amount of information about the policies and ways that they help to bridge the gaps between children and the things that prevent them from having access to early childhood programs.

Things I learned: By 2020 their will be no more "Majority gap" among children because at the moment 45% of children are of color. The importance of closing the other gaps that will exist by income, language and culture both in children and families. Closing these gaps are vital to our future success as a nation.

Retrieved from http://www.buildinitiative.org/ 

Week 5 Blog Assignment

I thought the website http://developing child.harvard.edu/ was very informative and gave me a look into how early childhood is viewed globally. I thought the video on how caregivers unresponsiveness can be harmful to a child's development.
The sections on: Science of Early childhood, understanding interactions and innovation as well as the Global child Development section was very informative and is a resource I will add to my list of resources.

1. Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/