Research Around The World

What are some of the current international research topics? Some the current research topics of this week five are ECDVU Sub-Saharan Africa: Mission Statement, Early Childhood Australia a voice for young children and European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA).

 What surprising facts/insights/new ideas about early childhood did you gain from exploring this international early childhood website? The new ideas about early childhood I had gain from exploring the international early childhood website. First I do know that all international early childhood website are different plus have surprising new insights facts. That involves about early childhood from different research or researchers that gave good facts about early childhood. I discovered that EECERA’s is an annual conference and is the largest early childhood research conference in Europe.

EEERA provides an exceptional forum network for scholar’s policy maker’s researcher’s practitioners and also encourage supports cross- national collaborations themed publications through its special interest groups called SIGs. All what EECERA is a leading international contributor to the development of research, policy and practice in the developing field of early childhood. So I gain a lot of facts from EECRA website in learning about, mainly about the largest connection involves a part of early childhood. Then next  international website I had gain from was about early childhood Australia this website from  Early Childhood Australia is the peak of early childhood advocacy organization, acting in the interests of young children, their families and those in the early childhood field.

Plus has many aspects of listing in wanting to find more about many different early childhoods Australia’s many roles in early childhood field. The last article about international was ECDVU Sub-Saharan Africa: Mission Statement the ECDVU means early childhood development virtual university. Now the ECDVU is supported by a range of international regional that local organizations include the employers of participants. The ECDVU is a unique training results oriented program that uses face-to face distributed learning methods. The learning methods involve residential seminars, web-based instruction, CD-ROM, print material support, a community of learners' strategy within and among cohort countries. The ECDVU program in Sub- Saharan Africa which has a country committees that has a nominations based on achieving inter- sectorial of multi- organizational representation evidence of individual commitment to child well- being and social development within the country.

What other noteworthy information did I find on this website? Well on the EECERA website the noteworthy information I find on this website in the links and partner of this website as the author would say, EECERA looks to like-minded organizations, institutions and research centers to offer mutual support and information sharing. EECERA does not automatically agree to reciprocal links arrangements. The Board of Trustees wants to ensure that such links and partners have similar aims and values and has formulated the following criteria. This website gives me more information to gather from then any other website was given to choose from this week five. It has the biggest connection to early childhood which I totally see because whatever I wanted to know about all I had to do is click on it to find out more different areas that was more important to me. I have gain more understanding from this website than any other of the website from this week the others websites was explainable in some areas but mostly the EECERA website had a greater aspect of many topics about early childhood in European early childhood education research association

1.      Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Developed and maintained by the University of Victoria, Canada, this virtual university is the international gateway for early childhood research worldwide. Through the link below, you can access ECDVU’s Sub-Saharan Africa portal. The second link takes you to a list of current early childhood research conducted by students in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Research that Benefits Children and Families—Uplifting Stories

Option 1: Share a positive example of the effects of research on children and/or families: Perhaps you can provide real-life examples of research benefits to children and/or families; maybe you are familiar with stories of people who have been positively affected by research; or you came across a published research article concerning children or families which you find exciting and would like to share with your colleagues.

If by all means I would do a research that benefits children and families, I would choose Parenting. I can say this in the area where I live at majority of the parents just don’t know how to be a good parent. I remember as when I was growing up as a child young or older children had to be in house when the street light came on. Not outside but inside the house I look at how time has changed so much. I just don’t understand why children can do more of what they want to do at a young age. It’s not all on the children because they only do what their parents allow them to do which most children think it’s great. But how I see how most parents are laughing at their children when they use profanity words at the age 5 and 6yr old. Never correct what the child is doing is wrong and that it’s not nice to talk like that using profanity words. There are so many parents’ that are too relax and with the lack of being a parent. Most parents are not teaching their children structure, respect others and yourself, plus values of an education.  When I was a reading tutoring one of my students siblings who I was trying to encourage to do his work so that he can pass the 4^th grade. The little boy looked up at me and then said he don’t care about his grades or going to the 5^th grade. Why should I care it’s not like the school is paying me any money. I was amazed from hearing what that little boy had told me but it all come from good parenting he had let me known so much in saying that. Most parents mix the relationship up of being a parent and more of being a child friend to be cool with the children or child. But I am happy I came up the old way I value everything in how I was raised from a child into an adult. I would love to do the research in parenting to give many parents who don’t know how to be a parents also for the parents who need help in the area. By doing this research I hope to gain skill on trying to give those parents who need help in parenting resources to improve in parenting skills.

My Personal Research Journey

The topic that I chose to research is Parent involvement. I chose this topic because getting parents involved in their child’s education is very important to me and I would like to know more way to do it.

 My experience engaging parents in their child’s education is terrible. I do good to get two to three parents come to open house, parent meetings, monthly parent participation day ect. I understand some parents can’t come due to work but I have asked if other times would work and still get nothing.

This topic is one that is very important to me. So, if any of my colleagues have any suggestions or advice for my topic and where they might like to see this research go or if there are any resources that you can share/offer please let me know I would greatly appreciate it. I wish you all the best with our class and if there are any resources that I can assist with during our time together in this class I will be more than happy to help.