Final Blog Assignment
Although I was not successful in establishing contact with an international early childhood professional I did explore some websites whereby I was able to still share my professional growth with my instructor as well as my colleagues. I learned a great deal as well as enhanced my knowledge of the early childhood field from exploring the following websites: http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/; http://www.worldbank.org and http://www.hcz.org, 1)I learned from an article that I read about a girl wanting to stay home and go to school. The parent wanted her to leave school and work because the family was a family of poverty .The girl threaten to take her life, so with the help of the school administration ,they were able to get funding from worldbank to pay for the child to go to school and stay home. Ten dollars does not seem like much, but to this family it’s just like winning the lottery. Poverty is a very deep issue in an international country 2) I learned that the international early childhood field is just as strong if not stronger, they go above and beyond to make sure that children are in quality program, just as we do here in the United Stated.3) I learned that Education is universally recognized as one of the most fundamental building blocks for human development and poverty reduction.
My one goal for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends and the spirit of collegial relations would be to keep the line of communication open with our international contacts, with our field being so diverse, our paths will inevitably crossed again at some point in our lives. It would also be interesting to see how issues and trends will change over the year, which is another reason I feel we should keep in touch.
As we come to the end of this course, I want to first thank my instructor for her weekly guidance throughout this course. In addition to all my colleagues, thank you to those of you who challenged me during our weekly group discussions, my wish is that as you continue on your professional path you will continue to be advocates for all children and be very successful in the early childhood field.
Edilma,
ReplyDeleteI wanted to mention I enjoyed learning different information from not only your blog posts but our discussions as well. I looked forward to new insights you discovered from your international websites. I found them informational and insightful as well. They were helpful during our course of study. I agree if students established contact with international professionals that we should continue to remain open in communication and build more of an international early childhood education community. I still have my international contacts information and they continue to remain available and helpful professionals. Thank you for sharing and I wish you good luck on your future studies.
Edilma,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your blog. I was really shocked when I read the story about the little girl who threatened her life for education. While it was an eye opening story, it made me really depressed that a child would have to go that far just for education. This is something that should be offered to everyone. Anyways, thank you for sharing everything. I wish you the best of luck, and hope that we will cross paths again.
Andrea