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.
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
This is great information! I have not read an article specifically about flexible scheduling before, so this really expanded my resources in a new way. Many of the issues I've read about with low-income families say that flexible scheduling would benefit families, but I haven't read an article specifically about how it would do that. Thanks for sharing this.
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