I recently visited EECERA.com ~ the website for the European Early Childhood Education Research Association. This is the research resource I've been looking for! The searchable library of the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal contains back issues full of highly useful research analysis.
One topic in the journal library that caught my eye was play. Other topics from the current issue include teacher education, leadership and management, diversity, culture, and language, as well as something called polyvocal ethnography, which I will have to read up on ;)
An insight I gained by browsing the EECERA website is a renewed understanding of the wonderful global and diverse perspective that seems to be more pervasive in non-US organizations. I look forward to revisiting the issue on play as I write a curriculum for a workshop I am teaching later in October in order to add a more diverse dimension to my materials.
One other noteworthy piece of information I discovered is an article titled "Digital play in the early years: a contextual response to the problem of integrating technologies and play-based pedagogies in the early childhood curriculum". I wish I would have discovered this article during the initial phases of my research simulation- I look forward to reading it in order to build on my understanding of current research in the area of technology use in early childhood education and development.
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteThat is wonderful that you were able to immediately find a resource that was helpful to your work! I have been interested in current research related to integrating technology into the early childhood curriculum, so I will have to check out the article you mentioned. Thanks!
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI also thought that the EECERA website, especially the journal contained articles on a variety of early childhood topics, many that seemed to be relevant here in the United States as well. I also found it interesting that they had devoted one issue entirely to the topic of play. I hope that the article on integrating technology will still be useful to you in some way for your research simulation. This is definitely a website I will add to my list of resources. Thanks for sharing!