Learning from my international contacts in the field of early childhood, was very insightful and informative, and the communication resulted in the following consequences:
Consequence 1: I have learned that many countries, such as Italy seem to a better understanding of the importance of early childhood education and place more emphasis on programming than the United States. While others, are still plagued with gender inconsistencies and unrealistic views of childhood.
Consequence 2: The information they have shared has drawn attention to the fact that early childhood has many of the same issues and trends worldwide, regardless of the emphasis or understanding of the importance of early childhood. For example, poverty was a consistent trend in all of the countries I communicated with, as was inequities in the programming and availability of early childhood programs.
Consequence 3: Changing policies and practices and resolving issues and trends that surround early childhood education needs to be a global effort, so that consistencies in expectations, curriculum, and quality allow children worldwide to participate in high-quality learning programs.
Subsequently, one goal for the field of early childhood would be to form and utilize collegial relations with international early childhood professionals so that issues and trends in the field of early childhood remain forefront on the minds of all and solutions can be generated from collaboration.
Soni,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you worded the consequences that you learned through international contact. All things you mentioned are inevitably true. Change is always the hardest to accept and to go with. One thing I appreciated the most is the fact that people across the world are desperately to provide high quality education and care for children.
Chrissy
Sondi,
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I agree that we are behind other countries when it comes to the early childhood field. Many of the countries have similar concerns, so hopefully those similarities will motivate policymakers to make some changes.
Sondi,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree - ideally, early childhood policies should be global. I wonder if that will ever happen?
I have enjoyed reading your blog entries throughout this course! Thanks!
Sondi,
ReplyDeleteI must admit that I have learned more from your blogs and International contacts that I did from mine! I really enjoyed reading your posts and it was interesting how reading them every week. I also agree with the fact that early childhood education should be on the forefront of minds but in our society today there are so many other concerns. Great posts! Good luck on completing your degree and look forward to seeing/reading your posts in other courses!
I think we all learned from your international contact. I also believe that forming such alliances as we have this course we all are helping to impact potential global policies for the field of early childhood education.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to growing with you as we complete this program.