~Getting to Know Your International Contacts~

I have been successful in receiving correspondence back from an International Early Childhood Professional.

I chose to research issues related to the childhood poverty in India. India has the world’s largest number of poor people in a single country.  India’s accomplishments have been made in its health care and education programs. There are more elementary school-aged children attending school now than in previous years. 

India has implemented government programs to reduce poverty in its country.  Over the last decade India has made efforts to alleviate poverty through increase economic growth, including liberalization of the economy, targeted programs, land and tenancy reforms, empowerment based approaches and the provision of basic services.

These programs aim to improve the quality of life and cater to the special needs of desperate parts of its population, such as children, women, disabled and older people through organized and sustainable development.

“Early Exposure to literacy in Education”

If I had a choice to choose any topic related to the early childhood field for research it would be the impact of the early exposure to literacy in education. The positive contribution for exposure to early literacy would be children having a vocabulary of 20,000 words by the time they enter preschool.  The development of literacy skills through early experiences is linked to children’s later success in learning to read and language development. This would also motivate children in their other studies.

 

“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Research Journey

 

Personal Research Journey

The topic I chose to research related to early childhood education is Language Development.  I would like to identify ways of fostering language development in young children. Determine if listening and understanding help a child’s language development in a positive way and if relationships between parents and children influence their language development?  In being an early childhood educator it’s important to understand children and their families. By understand child language development and to build knowledge that can improve outcomes for children and their families. Speaking and communicating develops there increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs and questions. Parents have a positive influence on their child’s development. The quality of the parent child relationship is more important than any single parenting practice or skill. The articles from this week will help me validate information that is accurate and not accurate. I will utilize this information when doing my research.