Research Around the World

The link I chose to discuss is: Early Childhood Australia: This is the Australian equivalent to the U.S. based NAEYC. You can access several links to early childhood research from the menu on the left side of the home page.http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/

What are some of the current international research topics?

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The Research in Practice Series focuses on the practical, 'hands-on' aspects of early childhood – making them ideally suited to early childhood workers.

However, the wide range of topics covered throughout the series offers something to anyone interested in children's

Early Childhood Australia has many print and online resources to assist parents, carers and educators in helping children make the transition from child care to preschool, and from preschool to school.

These links and resources on school readiness and transitions are quality-assured by Early Childhood Australia.

School readiness links in ECA's Supporting Best Practice web directory

• School readiness
  A great selection of links to fact sheets and websites. For carers to understand and support parents and children in getting ready to start school.
• About preschoolers
  A more general topic providing connections to sites that discuss the growth, learning and support of preschool-age children.

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Climate change and sustainability: 'Reaching the tipping point'

Thank you for your informing me about [Early Childhood Australia] and the work you do. We are all part of a network of people and groups that make up a huge movement.Let's hope we reach a tipping point soon.
–respected environmental activist David Suzuki, in response to the Sustainability issue of ECA's Every Child magazine (vol. 13 no. 1, 2007)

Sustainability is about creating a safe and secure future for every child

In her President's Message in the ECA Voice newsletter (vol. 7 no. 3, 2007), Margaret Young wrote:

Climate change and global warming are gathering more and more public exposure – it is an issue which reaches across so many aspects of our lives. Early Childhood Australia echoes the hope of David Suzuki: that we may soon reach a tipping point, in which widespread understanding of these issues leads to universal support for living sustainably on our planet.

This issue of Voice includes a sample of some of the great work being done by ECA's Global Warming e-Group. At the ECA Board of Directors meeting in June, ECA reconfirmed its commitment to the issues of climate change and sustainability.

'Climate change' refers to the varied effects of global warming, such as increases in extreme weather events, prolonged droughts and heat waves, melting ice caps, retreat of glaciers, higher sea levels, acidification of the oceans and changes to marine life cycles (Lowe, 2007).

'Sustainability' refers to a way of life in which humans – individually as well as collectively – lessen the negative impact upon each other and the world in which we all live. Sustainability is a holistic concept which seeks to create positive outcomes, socially as well as environmentally.

References

Lowe, I. (2007). A brief summary of the science of global warming and climate change. Retrieved 17 April 2007, www.envlaw.com.au/newlands4.pdf.

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

What I learned from this website is that early childhood topic is just about the same in every nation, the main focus is that early childood is very important and we must continue to work at providing the appropriate services to our young children, no matter where we live.

What other noteworthy information did you find on this website?

What I found from this website is that there is very good resources that I can use when further researching my topic.  It will be interesting to find out how other countries address the response to intervention process.

 

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