International Research

For this assignment, I took a look at the international website called Early Childhood Australia: A Voice for Young Children, on this particular website  they offer numerous resources and links to information that is relevant to parents, early childhood professionals, and anyone interested about the field of early childhood. I particular chose this website, because it is deemed to be the equivalent of the American known organization NAEYC, which stands for the National Association for the Education of Young Children. NAEYC is the leading organization in support of earlychildhood education and child advocacy. So I figure if the Australian website was just like it why not take a look a it. In regards to research, this website has research and it is called Research in Practice Series. In the Research in Practice Series, provides early childhood professionals insights as to how to put into practice evidence based research that has been proven to work well with young children. Some of the topics covered in the series are assessments, bullying, resilience, the early years learning framework, and diversity just to name a few.

I think the thing that I found that was interesting was the whole idea of knowing that this website was closely matched to being like our beloved NAEYC. Which is great to know that there is an organization somewhere else in the world advocating on the behalf of young children and early childhood professionals. One thing that I thought was noteworthy was that they have a statement of regret that attempts to express regret as it relates to the numerous loss of life, cultural identity, way of life, land, language, and communities  of the Aboriginals and the Torres Straight Islander people. These individuals were the original inhabitants of Australia and were invaded upon by other cultures that soon came to inhabit the Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islander peoples land.