Research around the World

The Early Childhood Australia (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/) is an association that advocates ensuring quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years.  The webpage has a link called Research in Practice Series (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/research_in_practice_series/about_rips.html), which is an easy to read and practical resource that offers effective new perspectives to people related to the early childhood field.  Some of their research topics are related to:

·         Being Belonging and Becoming

·         School readiness and children's transitions

·         Sustainability, global warming and climate change

·         Baby and toddler sleeping

·         Child health and childhood obesity.

 

The Early Childhood Australia webpage has also a useful index where sample chapters of their titles in the Research in Practice Series can be reached. Sadly, there are subscription fees that need to be paid in order to have access to the articles but some sample chapters can be reviewed for free.

In addition, I found a link called National Quality Standard PLP (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/). It is a new initiative developed and implemented by Early Childhood Australia in 2011–2012. The support for early childhood professionals is their primary goal and this support is through online interactive forums, e-Newsletters, e-Learning Videos, as well as a social media community on Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms.

 

It was interesting to see that the research topics are about the same in Australia and USA. This means to me that every early childhood professional has the same interests regarding early childhood, which is their wellbeing. I also found amazing the important role that the internet has supporting the early childhood professionals when providing them the preparation they need as researchers.