- Trying to make contact with someone in the early childhood field that lives in another country that you don't know. People are not always so inclined or open to returning phone calls or emails from strangers for other countries.
- Trying to find and get information about early childhood centers in other countries. The people who work in those centers and schools don't want to give information to someone they don't know. And I really can not blame them for acting like that. I would probably be the same way.
- Not being able to go to that country that you are trying to learn about and see for yourself what you are reading about in an article or an interview. Sometimes it is hard to picture what the situation or environment is like by just reading about it.
The one goal for the early childhood field that I have that is related to international awareness is to help end poverty for children and their families. Poverty is something that is global and no matter where you live everyone sees poverty in their community and in their state/country.
I also think that it is very important has a professional early childhood teacher to have good relations with my fellow peers. I would like to thank my peers here at Walden University for their wonderful blog posts and very useful information that they have provided through out this course.
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ReplyDeleteI wanted to thank you for your post! I completely agree with the consequences that you posted. It has been so hard to make contact with someone from out of the country. It's too bad because I would have really loved to hear from one of them and learn directly from someone about early childhood studies.
Yes, I think we all had a little trouble with making international connections. One of the difficulties, in my mind, is that we were given the contact information of very important people in other countries. It seems it would have been easier if we had been given email addresses for overseas preschool programs or teachers working in other countries. They may have had more time to reply to us and aid us in our search. Contacting the president of an international agency and hoping they get back with you is tricky! I also liked your point about visiting the places we are learning about. It is always so much more meaningful to experience things yourself. This is a very difficult thing to do, but I think people should always jump at opportunities to travel and learn about people who are different!
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