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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Research Around the World

I was very interested in the Early Childhood Australia website. It is very similar to the NAEYC website. Some of the current international topics that I noticed were: Childhood Allergies are on the Rise; this interested me because it seems the same here in the United States. However, Australia is reporting the highest of any other country!
Workforce Strategy is in the news because each state and territory government have committed to develop implementations that outline steps to be taken to support people to join the Early Education and Care workforce and get the qualifications and skills they need to support children from diverse backgrounds and with differing needs.
Crisis in Syria is a report about how it is affecting children and families. At AlZaatari Camp there are 5000 children under the age of 4! How will this affect their futures?

Australians belive in the support of their youngest citizens. Something the United States could take lessons in.

I found the information on this website very noteworthy and I would definitely look here in the future to see what types of things are happening internationally and how Australia is dealing with problems that are similar to ours.
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3 comments:

  1. teacherspetOctober 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM

    My own comment is here is my reference!

    http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org/au

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  2. AnonymousOctober 6, 2012 at 8:15 PM

    Deb,
    It would be really interesting to compare these two countries and see how they deal with different problems related to early childhood field. Australia is a country with many diversities and we could definitely learn a lot from this website.

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  3. Cortnee IngramOctober 8, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    Hi Deb,

    The allergy situation there is weird that it is so high. I also thought it was really bad here as well. Maybe it's something that is changing all over the globe...would be an interesting research study ;)

    Good job,
    Cortnee :)

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