Research Around the World

The organization I chose to look into this week is Early Childhood Australia. The link to their site is http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/. A current international research topic that is being studied in Australia is social issues that include children's social and emotional development and wellbeing. The study that I read on is called Growing Up in Australia and it is a longitudinal study of 10, 000 Australian children and their families. The study began in 2003 and is still being tracked. It is funded by the Australian government, Community Services and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I find this an international issues as no matter where people are, social acceptance has a lot to do with the healthy development of a child's self esteem. If the child is socially and emotional stable, they suffer in other areas of development. A surprising fact about this early childhood website is that it is compared to  the National Association for the Education of Young Children by Walden University. This is what caught my attention in the first place as why I chose it over the other links. This organization has their code of ethics that professionals in Australia can follow. I am not sure how different our main social beliefs and practices are from that of the main culture of Australia but as any group of people living in different parts of the world, I am glad that they did not decide to completely pick up ethics from another Nation and force them upon their workforce. It is go that they created their own. A noteworthy fact about the site is that they have pictures of diverse families and children. They show an acceptance of different nationalities and cultures.