Research Around The World

          For this assignment, I chose to investigate the Early Childhood Australia website.  The organization calls itself an advocacy organization that ensures quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children aged birth to eight years old. It also acts in the interests of young children, their families and those in the early childhood field, since 1938.

          In its Research in Practice Series Index, I found some interesting early childhood research topics such as: its 2016 issue on Connecting with babies and its issues on Documenting children’s learning; Connecting with toddlers; Supporting literacy learning in the early years and Inclusive pedagogy from a child’s perspective in 2015. There is a $60 yearly subscription cost to its 4 issues a month for 12 months magazines, which is considerably higher than NAEYC’s student membership but its promise to provide educators with resources that are idea-rich, to-the-point, practical, focused and easy-to-read sounds appealing.

          One interesting fact I discovered is that this organization operates much like our NAEYC organization. Both advocate for children, families and educators; both have a Code of Ethics for Early Childhood professionals to follow and both offer memberships and discounts to educators for subscriptions to its newsletters, magazines, publications, conferences and products.  

 Reference

Early Childhood Australia Retreived from

                            http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/