Thursday, February 26, 2015
Final Blog Assignment
When it came to learning about early childhood education internationally, there were pros and cons with it. In my opinion, 1.) I do not recommend having students search for colleague to interact with regarding early childhood education because these individuals do not respond back. It can be many reasons why, such as the individual cannot our language and may not understand what we are asking for because early childhood education could be different where they are from. 2.) Other countries have various views on early childhood education and they may not agree with why believe it is important. Many countries do not make early childhood education important as much as we do. We believe that children should have that experience early on. Many countries don't believe in it until either their child reach a certain age or their child will attend until their child hit a certain age where a family member can watch them at home. 3.) Another consequence is researching information that you would like to know about another country, and the information is written in their language or you contact a employee and they are not able to understand you because you do not speak their language. I do believe that we should be diverse and learn about other countries, but we should be smart about it. One goal is to learn about international early childhood field, but make sure you go to sites that will have the information in your language. Go to sites that you know will have the information in you language versus going to international sites that have the information in there written language. Being diverse can help you succeed in your professional field because you can take some ideas they may list and use them within your career.
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Hi Ashley,
ReplyDeleteI agree that having students try to contact another professional outside of the US should not be part of the program. Though is a great thought, it is disappointing and frustrating not receiving any contact back. There are also a lot of SPAM blockers as well which doesn't help trying to communicate with others. I wish at least someone would have heard back from our group :(
Hi Ashley,
ReplyDeleteI think we were all frustrated about not being able to reach an international contact. I agree with you that there were pros and cons. I can understand how difficult it was for you to find sites that provided information in our language but in my research I did find many. I hope to still reach out to those contacts in hopes to get some insight on how they differ from the U.S. when it comes to the early childhood field.
Good luck through your future courses!
Rebecca
Hi Ashley,
ReplyDeleteIt seems like we all really understand where you are coming from here! Yes, it has been frustrating and disappointing to put a lot of energy into trying to connect to no avail. I do think it's a valuable assignment, though. I think it would be great, though, if Walden could reach out to a few other international universities and find contacts in the field that would be willing to connect with students... Perhaps even connecting with other students in the filed to find out what they are learning about? But I agree that it is mostly a futile exercise as it is designed now. Thanks and congratulations of finishing the course! -Lauren