As I explored the website a bit more I looked at the board of directors to see who is supporting this organization and I found a diverse group of people from former Ambassadors, engineers, lawyers and educators. After reading this week’s learning resources and reading about the board of directors and the staff I realized that it is beneficial for children and families to have the support of not only educators but economists, neuroscientist and politicians as well. A long as the team as a whole is dedicated to the wellbeing of the children and focus on each individual child’s needs rather than monetary gains, everyone can benefit.
Sharing Web Resources II
The organization that I have been learning more about is called the International Child Resource Institute - http://www.icrichild.org/ . ICRI operates and/or oversees six child care centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The centers provide study and learning exchange opportunities for educators from around the world. As I explored one of the centers websites more, I found that the organization believes in learning through play and provides an environment where play is encouraged. I found this interesting because it is something we were discussing in this week’s posts. As I looked into the organization further I read about Hearts Leap Childcare Program. At Hearts Leap they utilize discovery-based emergent curriculum. Emergent curriculum is about children constructing or directing their own learning process. In order to provide an environment that supports this type of learning, childcare teachers need to be dedicated to observing the children, learning with them and researching. Teachers in this environment need to be well educated and trained, qualities that most early childhood programs can’t afford to pay for when hiring staff.
International Childhood Poverty
INDIA
400 million of India’s populations are between 0-18 years old. Life for most children in India is very hard. About 62 million children are under the age of five and are malnourished. This is about half of the children in India. 34 percent of newborns in India are significantly underweight. India accounts for 20 percent of the world’s children out of school; it has the largest numbers of working children in the world, third of children below 16 years of age are working. There is a lot of gender discrimination in India and girls' chances of survival are worst than compared with boys. Boys are viewed as more permanent members of the family and ongoing gender discrimination has lead to lower rates of school attendance among girls and less exposure to the outside world, with more emphasis on domestic work.
400 million of India’s populations are between 0-18 years old. Life for most children in India is very hard. About 62 million children are under the age of five and are malnourished. This is about half of the children in India. 34 percent of newborns in India are significantly underweight. India accounts for 20 percent of the world’s children out of school; it has the largest numbers of working children in the world, third of children below 16 years of age are working. There is a lot of gender discrimination in India and girls' chances of survival are worst than compared with boys. Boys are viewed as more permanent members of the family and ongoing gender discrimination has lead to lower rates of school attendance among girls and less exposure to the outside world, with more emphasis on domestic work.
Sharing Web Resources
The organization that I was interested in learning more about is call the International Child Resource Institute - http://www.icrichild.org/
This organization believes that all children deserve access to high quality care and a safe environment free of abuse and violence. They believe in the empowerment of girls and women and that women and children have access to health interventions. Overall, they believe in a community that has access to all the necessary resources to overcome poverty.
ICRI has developed or operated over 300 projects in over 50 countries since 1981. One of the projects I read about involved a partnership with the Brazilian National Movement of Street Children, where ICRI help develop support centers for homeless youth in Brazil. ICRI also developed an international awareness campaign about the violence and brutality against street children. I was really interested in this particular project because my children at my afterschool program have recently been studying Brazil and have created a blog where they are able to communicate with the children in a program in Brazil. The children discuss what life is like here compared to what the children experience in Brazil. Besides Brazil, ICRI has done a lot of work with Nepal, Kenya, India, Norway, Malaysia and many more international countries. They also do work in the U.S. – providing expert consulting and assistance in improving child and family programs.
Expanding Resources
This week I tried to make contact with various early childhood professionals. I was excited to hopefully make contact with at least one international professional in order to get a better insight on the early childhood profession in another area. Unfortunately, I emailed 8 different contacts and received at least 5 undeliverable email notifications and then no response from the others. I was a bit disappointed and it looks like I will need to choose the alternate assignment. I have decided to look into the NAEYC website and International child resource institute site.
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