The
Early Childhood Australia site had some very interesting information. They have
a program called RIPS (Research in Practice Series). This is a “practical,
easy-to-read resource,
offering effective new approaches
for those challenging issues which arise in the care and education of young children (Early
Childhood Australia, 2012).
This provides an index and links to buy texts to many topics of current
research that professionals can read and put to use. Some of those topics are
“Seeing assessments as a stepping stone,” “The early years learning framework:
building confident learners,” and “Young children are active learners.” There
were so many topics I felt lost in the information. I am not sure I never
thought of another country being involved is so many early childhood research
topics. I was most surprised at the lack of free information. Feel like I
search ever corner of the website and now minimal information that did not give
information on how to buy a book or reading material. I also came away
wondering why we do not work as a team in research. Instead of different
countries each performing research on topics why don’t we work together to
reach a global conclusion to research. I was also very interesting in the topic
I read about “Learning and teaching through play”. This brief article was about
research that “explains
how educators examine their understandings of play and how play-based
approaches require intentional planning and teaching in order to support and
extend children’s learning.” I would love to someday obtain a copy of the book
so that I could read more on how Australia stands on this topic issue.
Early Childhood
Australia. (2012) Retrieved October 6, 2012, from http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au
2 comments:
Sherene,
I also explored the Early Childhood Australia website. I feel that educators would benefit more if they ad access to more free information. I am sure that Australia's society's budget is just as tigh as the United States is and can see where researchers need funds to continue their work. Though I wonder if their work needs to continueif no one has access to it.
It really would benefit everyone if we could globally preform research. It would benefit the children.
Luci
I also focused on the same resource as you did – Early Childhood in Australia. I felt almost overwhelmed when looking at all of the topics that RIPS addressed but as you said, it may be because I never really take the time to look at other countries being involved in so many early childhood topics because I mainly focus on the United States because there is still so much I want to learn. It is reassuring to know that every country has important topics to focus on to work towards better their early childhood programs.
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