What are some of the current international research topics?
Some topics that I observes for international research are childhood development and early childhood education across various social and cultural contexts and highly contributes to the international debate on early education. The childhood a range of topics such as multicultural issues, children's learning and sustainable development, recent issues in early childhood education and care curriculum questions.
What surprising facts/insights/new ideas about early childhood did you gain from exploring this international early childhood website?
Early Childhood Australia is being funded by the Australian Government to run a new project looking at flexible practices and patterns across the early childhood sector. To improve access to early childhood education, ECA has proposed a target that 90 per cent of children three to five years old should be accessing ECEC by 2020. This will require additional investment in the early childhood system to improve the quality of existing services, improvements to the availability of services where they are needed, developing the workforce required and making ECEC more affordable for families.
What other noteworthy information did you find on this website?
Print awareness is an important part of learning to read. Reading aloud to children is an important strategy for developing print awareness and there are specific strategies that can be used do before, during, and after a read aloud activity to help kids develop print awareness.United States
Kimberly, that would be wonderful if Australia can reach their goal of having 90% of young children attending high quality centers. The last two issues you mentioned--developing the workforce required and affordability--seems to be a global issue. Does Australia have state funding? It appears that some of the research articles on this website has the same concerns that Africa has, except Africa has a lot of extreme poverty.
ReplyDeleteJill