As someone who did not succeed through email or podcast in establishing connection to another early childhood professional, I have again completed the alternate assignment for this week.
Although I have completed the alternate assignments, I can say that each week through exploring websites I have not previously known existed, I am learning new information and gaining in my knowledge of early childhood both here in America and abroad.
The website this week, from UNESCO's early childhood care and education page proved to be yet another site to find new information.
What I found first was the topics we have discussed during this course, 1. access and equity 2. quality 3. investment and financing 4. coordination and integration. I browsed through each of these tabs and the one thing I found was that there was a box on the right hand side with 'related inforamtion' containing articles related to each topic and involving different countries around the world. It still amazes me the number of countries that are just recently learning how valued early childhood is for the future. For example, the proposal of mandatory funding for preschool education in Brazil, was one article I found.
Secondly, I found the coordination and integration tab to be a bit confusing, maybe it was just me, but I do not fully understand what it means to split early childhood up as they were referring to. I will need to research this some more unless there is someone else who did this alternate assignment that could help better explain why? Thanks
Finally, what I did enjoy in the other two sections under the early childhood theme was that the other two areas, quality and access, stated what we have learned throughout this course. We need to insure that all of the children, even those in poor areas, have access to education and that a quality program makes the difference.
What an affirmation this week to the material we have studied, the papers written, and the collaborations we have had with each other in discussions and blogging.
Thanks for sharing that Heidi, I will have to check it out for myself as it sounds very interesting and of course relative to our studies.
ReplyDeleteI too had to complete the alternate assignment and I also was intrigued by the coordination aspect mentioned on the website. I chose to interpret coordination as all the elements that work together to create the whole of early childhood education such as health and education. It was nice to read your post and it made me think about interpreting coordination in a different way. Thanks for sharing!
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