Over
the past few weeks I have been diving into The National Association for the
Education of Young Children (NAEYC) website. Professionally, I have been
looking for information that will help me explain the value of helping
organizations that support children in poverty. I have also been interested in
diversity issues and how to support children. In order to help support my
professional development I looked to NAEYC for much needed information. First I
was able to find a policy update (http://www.naeyc.org/policy/federal/4_5_12)
that was very interesting. It talked about the money and changes happening in
the House of Representatives. It was not wholly the information I am looking
for, so the search continues. Mostly I was extremely interested in anti-bias
curriculum. I came across an informative blurb about celebrating Thanksgiving
in the classroom (http://www.naeyc.org/content/anti-bias-guide-holidays/thanksgiving).
This gave me a lot to think about and I could see the controversy. It also made
me wonder why the holiday continues to celebrated in schools. I wonder how many
families and children have been offended by the information, celebration and
teachings of the holiday while at school.
Looking at information that would support the learning for the week of
how economists,
neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field was easy to
locate. There was a quite a bit of information to support this fact. Although I
was hoping to find more information about how economists support the field of
early childhood and that was a little harder to locate. NAEYC is full of so
much information it is easy to get lost within the site. It is also easy to
become over whelmed and loose track of time while exploring the site.
2 comments:
Sharene,
I also have been doing a lot of my research on poverty. It's not as cut and dry as most people think. The NAEYC is a wonderful site to research. Your comment about the schools celebrating holidays really made me think. I can't believe that I never even thought of that but you are so right there has to have been many families and children that were very uncomfortable during these celebrations. We really need to consider these things when planning our school activities. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Jelena,
I to got caught up in reading on the National Black Child Development site. There was an article on reading that had nothing to do with the blog work. I look at this way learning anything is a great thing. I sometimes fear we are losing who we are, in trying not offend others, it seems as if we are losing our American culture in not celebrating what our nation was built on. There are some good things in our past. Can we really be an anti-bias society?
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