This week, I received webwatch
newsletter from Early Childhood Australia (ECA). One issue that adds to my
understanding of equity and excellence in early child care and education is a
press release titled “Collaboration needed in response to growing demand in
early childhood”. This press release is from ECA urging support for the
proposal to establish a “Child Care Availability Working group”. They believe that
this group will help service providers’ deal with the challenges of cost and
long delay to access funds through local planning approval process. In the
statement of ECA president we must work with all our governments, this issue
cannot be solved by anyone working in isolation”. I totally agree that her view
should be applied in our localities. She also reminded us that expansion of
early childhood services will provide additional jobs and most importantly develop
increased number of citizens with positive outlook.
Another issue is the infant
and early childhood social and emotional wellbeing conference. This conference
will be held in Canberra, Australia from 30th October to 2 November
2013. It is planned to be co-hosted by Australian Association for Infants and Mental
Health and the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youths. Issues to
be discussed include:
1. Advocating for improved policies for infants and young
children
2. Balancing the skill of people who work with infants and
improving school readiness
Obviously a lot of interest
and efforts are going into the affairs of young children and this is an
indication that the future of our society will be brighter. We must focus on
“quality” regardless of setting or provider of services to young children. If
we do not implement high quality standard, we risk letting down our generation
and unwittingly compromising our security and environmental peace. I have come to a conclusion that there will
always be issues in early childhood field as long as we keep giving birth to
children but we must be ready to address them positively as they arise.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"- Martin Luther King, Jr
Note: the following link is for questionnaire
on study “professionalising early childhood. I am sorry if you could not access it last
week. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG5TdjRSaDE0ajhkME4tNlF5QUltcFE6MQ#gid=0
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"- Martin Luther King, Jr
Reference
Webwatch. (2012). Retrieved http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
Hello Vivian,
ReplyDeleteI am really happy with the developments in ECA. They seem to have an exhaustive planning system that is addressing current issues that are plaguing the field of early childhood, I really pray that we have and continue ti have models around the world that are either practicing or attempting to practice the findings from researches.
To effect positive impact and change for children, we have got to work collaboratively.
Thanks girl for sharing.
Thank you for sharing the link. I am happy to see atenttion is being given to children's social and emotional health. I like the idea of reading about Australia, I had never read anything from that country in the past. Thank you for enlightening us.
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Hi Vivian, thanks for sharing information on Early Childood Australia. It is a good idea that all programs establish a "Child Care Availability Working Group".
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