Final blog

Post at least three consequences of learning about the international early childhood field for your professional and personal development 

1.  I can use the information I have learned about the international ECE field and help with advocacy efforts.
2. I have gained new resources and references for future classes and my career
3. Lastly I can use the information I have gained to educate others

Post one goal for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends and the spirit of collegial relations

1. My one goal is to become an advocate for other nations who are trying to betters their countries educational system by fighting for high quality childcare.

UNESCO’s “Early Childhood Care and Education

I visited the UNESCO’s “Early Childhood Care and Education webpage because I have not received any response from the Early Childhood professionals. This website was very informative in regard to  international early childhood education and I have learned a lot from it. The Convention on the Rights of the Child which was analysed in this article and asked if what difference has it made to children’s right to education? Turns out states have to reflect these obligations in their Constitution and  take strides towards enhancing education policies and strategies.


I also learned about the challenges in Brazil in regard to integrating care and education. This article focusing on the issues of integrating child care and education.  Apparently in 1996 there was a policy imposed to integrate administrative responsibility for day care centers for 0-3 and preschool 4-6 into the education system.  This article focuses on why there is still a gap in this system of integrating school and care, even though there is a policy in place.
The article goes on to talk about how important it is to bring these two sectors together, but that is not something that will happen over night, and it will take some time until care and education are integrated.  This article showed me that the government in Brazil is trying to make their early childhood educational system better, it is going to take some time but they are making the effort.


http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001457/145735e.pdf




www.unesco.org

Education World

• Follow some of the outside links that you have not yet explored. Where do they lead?

Some of the outside links connected to this website were social networking sites like twitter, facebook, and an RSS feed. Having links like these ones are useful in getting more individuals to view this site. These outside links can help education world gain in popularity.

• Thoroughly search one area of the site. What do you find?

The New Teacher link was extremely useful, once you click on the new teacher link it brings you to a section where you can find a lot of good resources. Many of these resources provide guidance for new teachers in the form of articles, forums, discussions, opinion articles and job search advice. I clicked on many of the resources and found them to be extremely useful and reassuring for potential teachers. Great Job Education World!

• If you receive an e-newsletter, follow a link related to one of the issues you have been studying. What new information is available?

The last newsletter I received from Education World, early childhood newsletter was about celebrating earth day. The newsletter discussed earth day, recycling and  lesson plans regarding earth day. This newsletter was not relevant to what we are discussing in class this week.