Research Around the World

For this weeks blog I have decided to view the website for Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) retrieved from http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/index.php.

1. A current international research topic is early childhood development in the 21st century: children's rights to live, play, explore and understand the world. This research topic was chosen because of new and positive early childhood initiatives are being implemented in Liberia. According to ECDVU (2013), Liberia has made and developed high quality early childhood system. 
2. Another current international research topic is the difficulty to locate African based and African led research. According to ECDVU (2013), the issue has long concerned ECDVU as it has sought to locate such materials for incorporation into its courses. 

A surprising fact that I learned from ECDVU website is generative curriculum. Generative curriculum is an interactive process that links three main strands of knowledge about child and family development: students' and elders' knowledge from their cultures, text usually prepared by specialist on local and regional cultures, and Western and international research and practice (ECDVU, 2013). Generative curriculum shows that the community is strongly committed to their children's development. 

I found it very interesting that there is little no research topics based on Africa. I think that it is important for each country to have research conducted on early childhood. Research provides organizations to locate their weak areas and improve those weak areas. Research is good in early childhood because it allows agencies to know if the children are developing and if there are changes that need to occur. 

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