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Every Voice Matters: The Importance of Advocacy
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Royea, Amber J.; Appl, Dolores J. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2009
Over the years parents, professionals, and politicians have come together to advocate on behalf of children's rights. Advocacy can occur individually, collectively, or a combination of both. Although some advocacy efforts are more successful than others, it is the process of the advocacy and voices behind it that matter most. In this guest…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Child Advocacy, News Media, Institutional Research
Travelling Policies and Global Buzzwords: How International Non-Governmental Organizations and Charities Spread the Word about Early Childhood in the Global South
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Penn, Helen – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
This article is based on a web-search commissioned by an international charity to review the work of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and charities which promote and support early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the global South. The article examines examples of such initiatives. It is suggested that there is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, Child Care
Once upon a Time, when the Journal Zero to Three Was Born
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Brazelton, T. Berry; Lally, J. Ronald; Levy, Bernard; Shahmoon-Shanok, Rebecca; Sparrow, Joshua; Szanton, Eleanor Stokes – Zero to Three (J), 2009
The authors of this article include the first executive director of ZERO TO THREE and several Board members who were present when the Zero to Three Journal was born in 1980. Their recollections of ZERO TO THREE, the organization, and of this publication that grew out of it, provide a unique context from which to examine the accomplishments and…
Descriptors: Publications, Reflection, Institutional Characteristics, Intellectual History
Tales from the Frontline: The Experiences of Early Childhood Practitioners Working with an "Embedded" Research Team
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Wong, Sandie – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2009
In late 2006, SDN Children's Services, an Australian not-for-profit provider of services for children, families and communities, engaged a research team that was "embedded" within the organisation for 1 year. This action represented a significant investment of resources, such as staff time and organisational funds, and demonstrates SDN's…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Researchers, Academic Achievement, Child Caregivers
Learning Evidence-Based Practices for Anxious Children
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Thienemann, Margo; Hamilton, John D. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
This column describes how a university clinic (henceforth "the Clinic") specializing in treating children with anxiety disorders managed over time to integrate empirically supported treatments and diagnostic methods, initially with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and later with other anxiety disorders as well, over the 15-year period 1991 to…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Patients, Clinics, Anxiety
Learning More about the Commission on NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria
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Goffin, Stacie – Young Children, 2003
Goffin discusses the new commission and its tasks and how the new standards and criteria will differ from the current ones. She requests that members contribute their input on this important aspect of the NAEYC accreditation transition.
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Standard Setting, Early Childhood Education, Institutional Research
Early Educational Settings in Italy: The Social Context and Educational Prospects
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Musatti, Tullia – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
The educational provision for young children in Italy today displays quite unique features; in some regions it attains some of the highest child access percentages in the world, is attended by families from all social classes and many services are denoted by qualitative excellence. It thus provides an interesting observatory for discussing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education