Saturday, May 9, 2015

Establishing Professional Contacts
My goal is to establish contact with at least two Early Childhood professionals located outside of the US so that I can expand my knowledge of some of the issues and trends we are currently studying that affect not only children and families in US but all over the world.
I have contacted via email the following professionals from NAEYC Global Alliance:

The National Early Childhood Development Alliance
Mr. Eric Atmore
P.O. Box 2363
Clarinch, 7740
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 683 2420
Email: cecd@iafrica.com

Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association
Dr. Betty Chan Po-king
20 Somerset Rd. Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: 852-23396005
Email: sannas@ycef.com

Center for Early Childhood Care & Development
Blesilda Rios
Philippines
Email: child_ceccd@yahoo.com

World Association of Early Childhood Educators
Juan Sanchez
Spain
Email: jsm@waece.org

 I have identified myself as a Walden University student from the US who is currently studying Issues and Trends in Early Childhood Education that affect not only children here in the US but globally as well and would to like touch base to collect information, obtain opinions, and experiences that may relate to some of the topics discussed during this course.
Currently I haven’t heard back from anyone, but I have resent the email s just in case it ended up in their spam and included "Early Childhood Education from the US" in the subject line.  I also sent each contact an email as opposed to a group email to avoid spam filters. If I don’t hear from anyone by next week, I will consider Option 2.

Expanding My Resources
As I perused the list of organizations in our resources section, I chose to follow NAEYC because they are a reliable resource.  They are well known, address many different topics and have a wide variety of communication tools from blogs, tweets and newsletters.  Also their website is easy to navigate and I don’t have to spend valuable time trying to sift through irrelevant information to locate what I need.

References
Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children
https://oldweb.naeyc.org/globalalliance/

NAEYC

http://www.naeyc.org/
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 9, 2015 at 8:59 PM

    Dianna
    You have selected a wide range of contacts. The information that you gather can be helpful in doing a comparative study of early childhood education.

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  2. Adrienne StephensMay 10, 2015 at 4:06 PM

    Dianna,
    I found your blog most help when trying to search for personal contacts. I think that when a person is trying to complete a task of this magnitude, resources should never be varied.\

    Adrienne Stephens

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  3. Chaundrea AllenMay 10, 2015 at 6:25 PM

    Great way to start communicating with someone. Great idea to email more than 2. After reading your post because I haven't heard back from anyone, I'm going to email several more and hopefully we all will hear something back within the week.

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  4. UnknownMay 10, 2015 at 7:13 PM

    Hi Dianna
    I was happy to see your name in my group for this course! You have done a great job of researching contact persons for this assignment. I will follow your lead and try to contact someone from another resource as well. I am hopeful that you will receive a response soon. You are exactly correct regarding NAEYC resources; this organization is awesome!

    Shelita

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