The European Early Childhood
Education Research Association (EECERA) is a fantastic resource for many types
of research in the early childhood field. Some of the international topics that
are current in research include: “Enabling professionals to change practices
aimed at tackling social inequality through professional development: results
from a case study,” “Men and women in childcare: a study of caregiver-child
interactions,” as well as “Quality of play, social acceptance and reciprocal friendship
in preschool children” (European Early Childhood Education Research
Association, n.d.).
It is
interesting to see that many of the research topics include parents and their
interaction with their children. There are also many studies conducted about
social and emotional well-being of young children as opposed mostly academic
studies.
While this
website is based in Europe there are many articles that I found that are about
young children in Australia and China. This makes the website even more
valuable as there are so many other areas of the world being included in
research for early childhood educators everywhere to benefit from.
References
European Early
Childhood Education Research Association. (n.d.) Eurpoean Early Childhood
Education Research Journal (EECERJ). Retrieved October 7, 2017 from http://www.eecera.org/journal/
Hi Robin,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the various research studies through the EECERA. As I read your post it was quite evident, the issues, trends, and research in early childhood are uniform throughout the world. Although my focus was inclusion research, the Early Childhood Australia organization had many research topics in the area of quality play and professional development as well. As a matter of fact, the research topic I detailed focused on parents and their views regarding inclusive classrooms.
It is evident, there is a harmonious feeling throughout the world regarding the the importance of early childhood development and the field we are all so passionate towards. Learning and growing together across the globe through the use of technology, it is a wonderful time to be alive.
Thank you,
Lynnette
Hi Robin,
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I think the articles about parents and wanting to be more interactive with their children is great. It gives them a chance to talk to each other, device free hopefully, and get back to what parents used to do with their children, play, laugh, talk and find out how their day was and what is going on at school. Most of the time when children say nothing happened they just need an ear of a parent who cares and is listening.
Robin
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your insights on the site. It really highlights issues and trends in early childhood as it relates to countries all over the world, because I live in the Caribbean and I can certainly relate to some of these issues in our education system. I too reviewed this site, and was appreciative of the fact that they posed so many topics and research on parental involvement with their children. I always believe that parents interactions with their children contributes greatly to their successes. Thanks for sharing and all the best in your simulation.