Saturday, June 7, 2014

Research Around the World

The international website I viewed was Early Childhood Australia.  The website has a wealth of information and resources for educators.  The research topic that I found on the website to be interesting is Early Childhood Flexibility Practices and Patterns.  The research study is referring to anything that meets the needs of families including but not limited to:

  • Non-standard hours
  • Flexible sessions and enrollment
  • Working in combination with other services
  • Flexible locations or service delivery
The project is also looking at the interests of children and flexibility.  The project will be asking those in early childhood education and care, ‘Are services flexible, yet suited to the needs of young children (not merely “slot” services but environments where children are cared for by trained professionals able to offer a sustained developmental program?'

I  found the website to offer many great resources.  One resource area I found to be insightful was the Research in Practice Series.  The resources offered in this section are practices that have been developed and established by research.  There are numerous topics included in the list of projects that have been completed and resources have been developed to support educators in the field of early childhood education.  Some of the topics are:

  • Understanding children's feelings:  Emotional literacy in early childhood
  • Overlooked curriculum:  Seeing everyday possibilities
  • Aggression and Young Children
  • Discovering letters and sounds
  • Learning positive behavior through educator-child relationship
  • Play and quality in early childhood:  Educating superheroes and fairy princesses
  • Children's resilience:  Working with the Early Years Learning Framework
  • And Many More!
I also found the website had many other resources such as early childhood news,  newsletters, journals, and other sections that had a list of resources such as Supporting Best Practices and Everyday Learning Series.

I found the website to be a great resource for early childhood educators and those who support the field.  The link to the website is:  http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
 
 
 

2 comments:

  1. I also chose the Early Childhood Australia website. I also found it to be a great resource to use for education. I can see how this website would be good to use in this research class. I was interested in the supporting best practices section. I also read an interesting article on school readiness.

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  2. Hello Rhonda

    From reading your post, I can see that this website is very informative. I found the topics to be very interesting and can be of good use to me throughout this program. It is one site that I will add to my list of resources.

    Thanks for sharing

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