This site continues to work out its mandate to unite and promote educators around the world.
One of the ways is by presenting an Institute for International Education Diplomacy, July 29 to August 2 this summer at the George Washington University in Washington, D. C. This gathering acknowledges that to make changes you must enlist the participation of the country and its people. To this end, presenters will inform in communicating across interpersonal, intercultural, political and cross-disciplinary borders. Having a great plan may not be enough if it does not fit the people it is designed to help or if hey cannot comprehend the rationale or motive involved.
This month also there is a report Social Policy Report. Quality of Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts by Pia Rebello Britto, Hirokaza Yoshikawa and Kimberly Boller. Interestingly this report echoes what we have been reading about early education in the United States. Countries around the world are dealing with the same research, financial restraints and the constraints of levels of government and many children with many different needs to support. They too conclude that it must be more than the giving of money but there must be a commitment to quality that finds its way all the way to the community.
Norvell, Ratcliff and Hunt's article Give me a Break: The Argument for Recess. was timely for our discussion this week. They call for a grass roots research - in the classroom, conducted by the teachers and results given to parents. This voice needs to be raised so the humanity of early childhood is not forgotten or bull-dozed for the sake of economic growth.
In the Digest this week an article by Bi Ying and Judit Szente, The Care and Education of Orphan Children With Disabilities in China reminded that we have a way to go at caring for the disadvantaged in this country. The work of Philip Hayden, a true carer of humanity, was highlighted in his forming of the Shepherd's Field Children's Village in Tanjing.
This site has an international vision that cooperates with other international and national organizations to being to light early childhood issues throughout the world.
irokaza Yoshikowa and Kimberly Boller.
Roberta,
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how the things we are studying coincide with the articles we read. It can be health issues, science or politics but it all goes back to the providing of early education for children.