Current issues involving research outside of the United States, more specifically in Africa and Europe include:
Increasing parent involvement
Educators getting engaged in researching their own practice
Interaction in single- low income- mother families
Teachers concepts of learning
Just to name a few.
From the websites below the most important idea that I gathered is that the issues and concerns faced in the United States are faced all around the world. Parent involvement is always an area of concern, as well as professional development, and understanding or addressing issues of poverty.
Notable Infomation:
http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/documents/major_projects/Habtom%20-%20MP%20Final%20-%20UVic%20LP.pdf
Tells us "Despite clear evidence that the world’s children are tomorrow’s human capital, early years’ interventions have continued to be poorly represented in the overall systems of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Eritrea. In Eritrea, due to successive wars and droughts, the overall opportunities created for early years’ interventions have remained of low quality and limited to only a small percentage of children. For example, during the period 1998-1999, only 5% of children aged 5-6 were enrolled in kindergarten centres, most of them in urban areas (Ministry of Education, 1999)"
This information was particularly interesting and mind-blowing. Considering, if your child is not enrolled in school at a certain age the police will come looking for you.
I think that in the United States education is so assessable that it is undervalued and underappreciated.
My generation could not imagine not going to school. Be it a center, home school, or something of the like in America some form of schooling is taking place.
I also find it particularly interesting how the same issues are topics of education worldwide, however, the magnitude of issues vary.
http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/major_reports.php
https://www.eecera.org/journal/
I totally agree. With education the possibilities are endless. And far too often education is undervalued and under appreciated, until it is too late. I find that the commonalities that we share with the world are quite sad because it shows how far we really to go. Like you would hope that where we lack someone else is excelling so we could learn from them. But the lacking also gives us a chance to better ourselves together.
ReplyDeleteHaleema,
ReplyDeleteI was impressed when I visited the Early Childhood Development Virtual University's website and saw the plethora of research studies carried out by students in Africa. I believe more researches should be encouraged and carried out on issues that the continent deals with. An interesting read was on involving fathers in early childhood care and development.