First off I want to thank all my fellow classmates for all your posts and comments and insights during this class. I have learned a great deal about our EC professional world and about the ideas and view points of others. I wish you all the best of luck and growth in the rest of your classes, professional career and life.
A consequence of learning about international early childhood field is that I feel in some aspects, in some parts of other countries they are ahead of us and provide a better quality early childhood environment but on the same note there are areas that are seriously deprived of enriched early childhood environments. I do not feel like I can do very much for children that live internationally. From learning about international early childhood field I feel like I have a duty to not only help children in my country but also internationally and i do not know how to do this.
Another consequence is that I was not as aware of the in-depth issues internationally and have come to realize that in some areas and aspects we (the U.S.) are not much better off. We declare ourselves a free nation, full of opportunities, education for all and equal rights yet our education system is lacking in several areas, not all children receive a proper and full education, our government has issues and our unemployment rate is extremely high. It makes me want to live in another country sometimes.
A third consequence is that there are many issues and barriers between children and professionals and services all over the world. For example, there are a vast amount of languages that are spoken in the world. Even though English is the most universally spoken one, there are limitless areas that do not use English. Another issue is a lack of awareness (in general). For example, when a family moves to a new country they might not know how that country functions in general and not have an understanding of who things work. For example, if your child needs physical or speech-language therapy services, they might not know how to find or get this help for their children.
My goal is to become more involved in poverty and equity and excellence in care and education of children, families, and EC professionals organizations that support internationally. I am going to do this by joining more organizations like UNICEF, and NCCP.
I was suprised too to find out the US is behind other nations in the early childhood field. Although we are not at the bottom, there is a lot of work to still be done.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all you have shared during this course.
While the US may be behind in performance when it comes to ECE programs for children and families, there is quite a bit of research being done here, neurosciences, social sciences and validating instructional strategies and curricula as well as evaluating assessment techniques and tools. Perhaps one way that we can contribute to ECE internationally is by supporting, particiapting in and following the evidence based practices coming out of US reserach. By doing this, the research gardners more validation and attention not only here but worldwide.
ReplyDeleteRica,
ReplyDeleteI also want to be involved in creating awareness of equity and excellence and also eradicating poverty. By advocating and appealing to the local, state and federal governments to come to the aid of children and their families this will result in producing good citizens of a nation.