Shared Web Resources Continued

For this blog for week six, it is safe to say that by now, I should be most likely adapt at navigating through the website of early childhood organizations that I selected to review at the beginning of the course. At this point, I should be ready to expand my research inquiry.  Therefore, I have selected an outside link that I have not yet explored.  The new link that I decided to explore is: Early Childhood Australia: The Australia Early Childhood Advocacy Organization http:// www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/.

The Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (AJEC) is Australasia’s foremost scholarly journal and the world’s longest-running major journal within the early childhood field. Published quarterly, AJEC offers evidence-based articles that are designed to impart new information and encourage the critical exchange of ideas among early childhood practitioners, academics and students.

I was first made aware of this site from a colleague’s (Teresa Motley) blog site.  After viewing and reading some of the informative information that Teresa learned from this site, I too felt intrigued and interested in learning more.  Therefore, I visited the site and it lead me to a report on Early Childhood Flexibility Patterns and practices.  The research report completed by AJEC talks about the pros and cons of having a flexible schedule and practices as it relates to the children.  The research further expresses the family and child centered benefits of having flexible learning schedules. The report also discusses and suggests that such childhood flexibility patterns and practices can also be beneficial to parents that have both parents in the home working to make ends meet but need flexible affordable child care.  Such a flexible school pattern and practices could allow the parents to better rotate their schedules and also be involved in the aspects of the children’s learning.

I receive an e-newsletter from The Global Fund for Children, and after following one of the various links related to an issue that I have been studying, I discovered that the First Lady Michele Obama, has a strong interest and belief in the Grassroots Initiative for educating girls worldwide and encouraging them to be leaders of tomorrow. This new information I found to be very helpful and informative especially since it emphasizes women empowerment. This movement is imperative since so many female children around the globe are not afforded the right to education simple because of their gender.

The AJEC website contained information which broaden my thoughts and added to my understanding of equity and excellence in early childhood care and education. The site opened up my thought process of other avenues for trying to bridge equity gaps in Early Childhood Education.

Other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field that I gained this week from exploring the website and/or the e-newsletter was the thought of introducing flexible practices and patterns into the aspects of early childcare and education.

 

Reference:

Early Childhood Australia: The Australia Early Childhood Advocacy Organization
http:// www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/

(Newsletter: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/contact_us/mailing_list.html

Neketha