Saturday, October 5, 2013

Research Around the World


The site I chose to explore was about early childhood in Australia. The site is: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/

 
What are some of the current international research topics?

 
The Early Childhood Australia has a few research themes available on their site. The themes they have available are:

1.    Belonging, Being, and Becoming

2.    School Readiness and Children’s Transitions

3.    Sustainability, global warming and climate change

4.    Baby and Toddler Sleeping

5.    Child Health and Childhood Obesity

 

What surprising facts/insights/new ideas about early childhood did you gain from exploring this international early childhood website?
 

-       The mission of the Early Childhood Australia is to advocate to ensure quality, social justice, and equality in all issues relating to the education and care from birth to eight years.

-       The values of this organization are: the rights of children, leadership, excellence, and respect, courage, honesty, and openness, collaboration and diversity, justice, and social inclusion of children.

-       This is their 75th Anniversary of their organization.

 

What other noteworthy information did you find on this website?

I found this site to be very informative. The mission, code of ethics, liscence, are among all the information this site has to offer. I really enjoyed the fact that this organization has a way for people to have a voice and to share their thoughts with everyone. This organization has a newsletter that is called Early Childhood Australia’s Voice Newsletter. In addition, this organization also has a journal that gets published along with a magazine. I love the enthusiasm this organization has for advocating.

When I have more time, I would love to continue to look and discover all the new things this site has to offer.

2 comments:

  1. Victoria,
    I also chose the childhood Australia website. The article that you mentioned, "Being, Belonging,Becoming" was a good article. I looked through several of the research topics and I was surprised to see how many of these related to things that I have oftened wondered about. I think it was easy to navigate around also. I also liked that you could share your thoughts with everyone and that you could sign up for the newsletter!

    Thanks for sharing,
    Amy McCoig

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  2. I visited this site as well. I was also very pleased at how easy it was to navigate through. I thought that the reports would be overwhelming but the information was very useful and accessible. The mission statement expresses an important goal related to children. I really enjoyed exploring this website.

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