Research Around the World

The website I chose to learn about is Early Childhood Australia (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/). In this website, I clicked on the tap "Research in Practice Series" and found some current issues from 2010 to 2014. I would like to post those issues on this blog so that anyone who reads my blog can gain some information that he or she need and then has access to this website.

2014 Issues

• Ways of thinking, acting and relating about sustainability
• Pedagogy: Programs and relationships in practice
• Professional partnerships in children’s services: Working together for children

2013 Issues

• Learning positive behaviour through educator-child relationship
• Play and quality in early childhood: Educating superheroes and fairy princesses
• Critical reflection as a tool for change: Stories about quality improvement
• Secure transitions: Supporting children to feel secure, confident and included

2012 Issues

• Reflection as a tool for quality: Working in the National Quality Standard
• ‘Stories from the Heart’ Connecting children and families with our Earth
• The Early Years Learning Framework: Essential reading for the National Quality Standard
• Partnerships: Working together in early childhood settings

2011 Issues

• Seeing assessment as a stepping stone: Thinking in the context of the EYLF
• The more you know, the more you see: Babies’ and toddlers’ learning and the EYLF
• Planning in the context of the EYLF: Powerful, practical and pedagogically sound
• Respecting diversity: Articulating early childhood practice

2010 Issues

• Children’s resilience: Working with the Early Years Learning Framework
• Learning and teaching through play: Supporting the Early Years Learning Framework
• Stars are made of glass: Children as capable and creative communicators
• The Early Years Learning Framework: Building confident learners

Among these issues, I found that play in early childhood field is a popular current topic around the world. There is a book authored by Anne Kennedy and Lennie Barblett in 2010, helping educators understand how to use play-based approaches, how to set up learning environments, how to plan intentional teaching activities, and so on to support children's learning and development. I only got a basic introduction to this book but not the content of it unless I purchase this book. I am considering to buy this book for further information.

There is one more section in Early Childhood Australia that I found interesting and noteworthy, the Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (AJEC), which includes the most scholarly journals from Australia and the longest-running major worldwide journals, and intends to share and exchange new knowledge and ideas among personnel related to early childhood field. However, there are very few free texts available; to gain more information, it's better to subscribe to AJEC.

                         

Reference:

Early Childhood Australia. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/