International Research Topics

I chose to review the Early Childhood Australia site located at http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/. In looking over the research topics listed under "Research in Practice Series", I found links to articles involving play and high quality child care attributes. Another area was linked to abstracts from the Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (AJEC) which surprisingly is the world's longest running journal for our field of early childhood education. Under this resource, the articles appear to be more scholarly than those under the "Research in Practices Series", but still need to be purchased.

The majority of the links provided additional information on the EYLF (Early Years Learning Framework). While this is an initiative solely in Australia, many of the supporting documents tie into what we find as issues and trends in the U.S.I would have liked the option to be able to read the articles, but each of them had a cost associated with downloading.

One of the items that stood out to me what their Code of Ethics. In reviewing the context behind why the Code was written, I found that Australia's Code and NAEYC's Code are very similar and based on the same pretexts. Both believe that a code of the ethics brings a level of professionalism and is supported by the values of the field.

Another interesting tidbit was a link for a toolkit on how to include technology in your ECE business. The site will continue to provide updates and information and appears to help those with all knowledge levels of conducting digital business.