: Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosts many different conferences and conventions one being The Convention on the Rights of the Child accepted in 193 countries as the rights of children as individuals. November 20^th is a universal holiday Children’s Day. The UNESCO holds a convention this day with ambassadors from all over the world this day as has a specials honorary guest as well. The Rights of Child gives policy makers and activist the ability to speak on children behalf regarding education. To enforce policy changes and enforce the need for equity and high quality education for all children. Today still there are about 761 million children lacking literacy skills and the Rights of the Child fight to reduce these numbers. The further I search through the website I am learning of new resources for my learning in the ECE field. I subscribed to the UNESCO newsletter to stay afloat with their stories and changes throughout the Nations.

 “As children represent the future, their best interest is our best interest” says Qian Tang. 

References:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/single-view/news/childrens_rights_are_human_rights/

Sharing Web Resources

The UNICEF website holds a host if information regarding early childhood as a whole. I learned today from randomly clicking on links there is a host of research and data comprised in this site. I ran across an article focusing on freeing child soldiers in Central Africa. I would not expect this to be on the website but it involves children. I believe you can find almost any topic regarding on this website. They have links allowing you to connect with Facebook, Twitter, Bloggers, other educators, volunteers and many others. I did subscribe to the UNICEF E newsletter to later discover there are multiple E newsletters you can subscribe I was only subscribed to the United States E newsletter, today I subscribed to the Africa E newsletter as well. Each newsletter contain information that adds to my understanding of equity and excellence. Each time I visit the site I gain more knowledge on varies topics. I tend to go with what catches my attention unless I am searching for a specific piece of information. The UNICEF website holds a host of information from the current hot topic in the early childhood education field to the latest research study conduct from Australia. I cannot say each time the information on the site is new for that particular week, although the information is new to me. The topic I am researching may have been posted on the E Newsletter I may just now be discovering the article because I am studying the topic. The following website http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ has been beneficial in my studies this semester and I hope to continue to gain as much knowledge possible from this source.

During week three I made contact with the Goddard School, about a week later I received a return call from a representative at a local Goddard school here in Cincinnati, Ohio I was excited to connect with her. Unfortunately The Goddard School denied my request to connect and build a relationship due to my interest not being to enroll a child into their program or become an intern. This week I reviewed The Global Children’s Initiative, they are committed to the global approach on child survival, health, and development during the early childhood years (birth to 7 years old). This network was designed specifically to focus primarily on “meeting the needs of all children and a critical investment in the roots of economic productivity, positive health outcomes, and strong civil society in all nations, from the poorest to the most affluent”.  The Global Children’s Initiative has briefly acknowledge an understanding of the policy issues presents in early childhood development. The same issues has or are currently present here in the United States specifically Cincinnati, Ohio, and these are the same issues I am currently being taught. The one thing that stood out to me regarding The Global Children Initiative was their mission very detailed and addressed specific points of focus to obtain their overall goal.

References:

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/