Research Around the World

Research around the world is amazing and unending learning experience. For this assignment, I decided to explore European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA): This international early childhood organization publishes a well respected journal. All back issues are accessible from this site and are fully searchable without charge.
http://www.eecera.org/

Here is what I discovered:

1. The current international research topics focused on how to teach and to learn for both teachers and children, the influence of play on children (especially with adults attitudes), and how children's cortisol increases or decreases. 

2. What surprised me was how common the topics are across the world. The world wide commons show that "we" are struggling to present a final proof of what we can do to "fix" the problems. Exploring an international website helped me to realize that there are common research topics that I could follow and compare to learn more about the impacts on children in other countries than United States. Then I could compare the results between a country and United States to see if there is any particular reason for the differences or similarities. 

Yet, there are research topics that focus on children of the conflicted (ie: religion conflicts, war, etc). Because we, who reside in United States, have not yet experienced or record some topics focusing on children of the conflicts. This led me to wonder if the civil war in United States had huge impact on children's developments. Unfortunately, this was more than 100 years ago.   

3. A newsworthy information that I discovered was the conference. I did not realize there is a conference for researchers. EECERA provides annual conference. It sounds very curiosity.  Other than its curiosity, conferences offer tremendous supports to researchers by discussion, build relationship, and unity. I think these are excellent qualities to offer.