Saturday, September 10, 2011

Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

I was not successful on finding anyone from another country in our field to conduct the blogs with, but I will continue to look. So for now, I will use the World Forum Foundation Radio. Includes links to podcasts of conversations with early childhood professionals. I listened to the interview of TJ Skalski ; Principal of The Mother Earth’s Children’s Charter School (MECCS), the first Indigenous charter school in Canada. Originally from the Blood Reserve and raised in southern Alberta, she eventually left to complete her education, including a Masters of Education degree.
I enjoyed listening how she is fighting to preserve her native routes in her life and in her community.


For the second part of our assignment I have also decided to use the World Forum Foundation website. I like that they united professionals in this field from around the world, exchanging ideas and programs that have been successful in their respectful countries. For this week I looked into Global Leaders for Young Children; their Mission it to improve life chances for young children around the world by providing opportunities where developing early childhood leaders can become effective change agents and advocates for quality early childhood development services in their home countries.


http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/initiatives/global-leaders-for-young-children


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  1. rdollSeptember 11, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    Jennifer,
    I also viewed TJ Skalsi's podcast. I was interested in how she was dedicated to maintaining thier cultural identity while also mainstreaming education. I visited her website as well. Like you, and it seems most of our class, I have not been able to make contact with international eductators. I was hoping to hear back from one, it would have been interesting to have thier take on issues.

    Robin Doll

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  2. AndySeptember 11, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    Jennifer,

    I too would have enjoyed hearing back from the international educators. Maybe we will hear from out least of of the educators that we contacted. :) I am knew to the education realm so it would have been interesting to see their takes on issues that we discuss.

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  3. Cheryl AKA LadeebyrdOctober 8, 2011 at 1:34 PM

    Thanks for sharing. In terms of creating equality / equity in the early childhood field, what better place to start than with affirming a child's culture. A strong sense of well being begins with a positive sense of self and affirming children's culture conveys acceptance.

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