Blog Assignment Week # 5: European
Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA)
What are
some of the current international research topics?
On this
International website, some of the topics being researched include the
following:
“Revealing
the interactional features of learning and teaching moments in outdoor activity”
written by Jane Waters & Amanda Bateman, and published online May 24, 2013
“The
business of childcare in Europe” by Helen Penn and published online May 01,
2013
“Parent
Partnership and “quality” early years services: practitioners’ perspectives
written Michelle Cottle & Elise Alexander and published online April 20,
2013
One
outstanding topic that I liked very much was “Foundations of character:
methodological aspects of a study of character development in three to six year
old children with a focus on sharing behaviors.” In this research, it is stated
that the researchers, James Arthur, Sacha Powell & Hsing-Chiung Len
conducted the “major research project involving five separate studies, mostly
multi-method, looking at different aspects of character development in different
age groups in different populations.”This results of this research was
published online September 10, 2012 and it now has open access to anyone
wishing to view it.
What
surprising facts/insights/new ideas about early childhood did you gain from
exploring this international early childhood website?
EECERA is an independent, self-governing, international
association which promotes and disseminates multi-disciplinary research on
early childhood and its applications to policy and practice. EECERA is a
non-profit organization, wholly-owned and subscribed to by its substantial and
influential world-wide membership. It generates its own revenue, receives no
external funding and thus ensures its independence, radical attitude and
innovative openness
EECERA seeks to sustain and develop the rich tradition of European
early childhood thought, the legacy of Pestalozzi, Owen, Froebel, Steiner,
Vygotsky, Piaget, Malaguzzi and other pioneers, whilst looking forward to
encourage the exploration of new paradigms, methodologies, concepts and
applications in the ever-changing context of early childhood studies. Its reach
and interest is resolutely international and, whilst wanting to identify with
Europe’s pluralist and diverse cultures, it is open to learn of, and to share
in, the equally rich early childhood traditions and concepts of the World.
What
other noteworthy information did you find on this website?
The EECERJ, the Journal of
EECERA, is one of the most prestigious early childhood journals in the world.
It is one of only four early years journals indexed by the Institute for
Scientific Information.
For further
information on this website we can access the following web link:
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