I chose to explore Early Childhood Australia website which is consider the Australian equivalent to the U.S. based NAEYC. I chose this website because of their mission statement which reads, “Early Childhood Australia will advocate to ensure quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years”.
Some current research international research topics that were highlighted on this website are: school readiness, babies and toddlers sleeping, child health and childhood obesity, early years learning framework, children’s cultural and heritage, and building family partnership.
This website was easy to navigate and had current and relevant ECE topics. One topic I found surprising is Australia takes in refugee children and have established Principles, Goals, and recommendations for the country in order to support the refugee children. Early Childhood Australia conclusion, “In order to achieve successful outcomes for children it is necessary to secure the cooperation of all departments and agencies involved in the support of children and their families. In relation to refugee children and children of asylum seekers, solutions need to be put in place that are appropriate to their immediate and long-term developmental needs. Early Childhood Australia is unequivocal in its call that these solutions do not include the incarceration of children, or their separation from their families”.
This organization is advocates for young children and their education. They have an establish set of code of ethics, philosophy, and values that involves a vision of how young children need to be treated.
Elizabeth,
ReplyDeleteI also choose this organization and was surprised to see their development in early childhood education, especially with the Malaysian children refugees. I did some quick research to see if the NAEYC had any similar programs and did not find anything. I think that this is something we can learn from the ECA
Elizabeth, for one of my previous classes, I explored a few Australian websites on early childhood development. I was surprised to see the extent to which the indigenous language and culture was incorporated into the early childhood curriculum.
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ReplyDeleteI have studied the Australian system in past courses as well and have been very intrigued by the work they do with refugee families. I would suppose it is similar to the work we do with immigrant families here in the states, but on a different level.
Thank you for sharing.
Elizabeth,
ReplyDeleteI too chose this website to review and found their voice for early childhood advocacy to be very loud and clear! It is always wonderful to know that there are so many out there who are working and advocating for the benefit of children throughout the world.