Since I have not heard from my international contacts I have been doing the alternative assignment. I visited the following website http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/.
This website contains information in the early childhood field. I took away these three important facts.
- The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization holds world conferences. There next conference will the be the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. It will be held in November 2014 in Japan. It would be interesting to attend a conference where educators and policy makers from all over the world gather to meet.
- They have case studies on many different countries that include Brazil, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden and Jamaica (published in 2010). It is always good to read about what is going on in different countries in the field of early childhood education.
- There are many policy briefs inregards to many different topics. One of the concerns I had is that many of the briefs were from 2004 or older. It makes me wonder what their focus is now to their organization.
Malinda, these are very important facts. I really enjoy communicating with others in different countries about the field of early childhood education.
ReplyDeleteThis confrence on sustainable development sounds very interesting. I am not sure how it would relate to ECE, but it seems it could be of some interest?
ReplyDeleteThere also seems to be a wealth of multi-cultural attendees that could really give some serious input about their countries.