The International Early Childhood Community Experience

Over the last seven weeks we have had the opportunity to explore various links to early childhood websites around the world and to learn more about the concerns of different nations.  Three consequences of this experience for me are that I now understand that early childhood education has been uniformly accepted around the world as the one area that can improve the standard of living in communities.  I have also learned that there is a national organization that meets and addresses issues in the early childhood field. This organization has set goals that the world hopes to accomplish by 2013.  There was a conference in Moscow this past fall to address what needs to be done to meet all the goals set before that date.  Finally, I have learned that in the early childhood profession we have the opportunity to work with professionals in our field in other nations to help advocate for young children and their developmental needs.  We should not limit ourselves to other professionals in our community, counties, or states, but we should strive to create professional bonds around the world to ensure that we ourselves are continually striving to define and implement “high quality” early childhood programs.

     In my opinion one goal that the international community should have is to reach out to other professionals and share our concerns, accomplishments and expectations so that we continue to improve the early childhood experience for every child around the world.