My Family Culture

                                                  My Family Culture
My 3 survive Items:

 

A description of the three items you would choose

 Through-out my evacuation to other countries with  some of my family members. I would definitely grab these three items.

1. My wedding ring because this symbol the love my husband and I have for each other forever. Looking at it everyday would help me to remember that special feeling.

2. Quran is my religious book and this is a big part my family. The Quran holds the establishment on how a Muslim family should live .The family in Islam is a patriarchal family and the patriarch, that is to say, the head of the family, carries a tremendous burden of responsibility. Along with this responsibility he carries the burden of leadership.

3.Family Photos and Birth Cert., the reason I would take family photo because of my member of times with my family and friends.

 

How you would explain to others what each of these items means to you:

1.My wedding ring I would tell people this symbol my love with my husband forever.

2.Quran, is consider my Holy book in my religion and this how my family culture is base on is our religion.

3. Photos, these are my family and friends pictures and they man the world to me and I want to remember how we dress and the food we ate and many other things only with my birth cert. that stated where I was born at.

 

Your feelings if, upon arrival, you were told that you could only keep one personal item and have to give up the other two items you brought with you.

I would feel confused and hurt because they all have a special place in my hurt and I wouldn't know what to do.

Any insights you gained about yourself, your family culture, diversity, and/or cultural differences in general, as a result of this exercise,

My family means the world to me and so do my religion. I didn't realized how much I really follow the Quran until I was put in a situation where I would not be able to have my culture around me or my family. I never really thought about how much is installed inside of me until I am ask a certain question.

 

When I Think of Research

When I Think of Research

 

 Being able to have a better understanding of research. Given me the opportunity to gain a better insight how research is perform. Although I have taken a similar course about research. this course I was able to have better clarity and understanding on how to perform a research simulation.

I can truly admit taking this course have change my thoughts about research.
Even though, I was familiar with doing research, the thought of learning new things about research freight me. However learning different challenges in research have given me the opportunity to express my understanding of research.

Through-out this course being able to understand how planning and designing a research in early childhood can affect data collection or sampling or just the outcome of the research. There are many parts to conducting  and designing research. Therefore when implementing a research for early childhood there must be understanding of equity in the research along with  mixed method.

Even though, I had encounter many challenges through-out this course. I was able to critically examine these challenges so I would have a better understanding. Mixed method approach in which it used qualitative and quantitative method on one study.

This course have given me the opportunity to learn a different parts of early childhood field.
Research has open many doors for me comprehend and understand in early childhood field in which ways how research is performed and developed. Therefore, my understanding of early childhood studies have broaden because of research course.

I want to Thank You, everyone who have post  a comment on my blog and to my classmates. I enjoyed learning about research in early childhood field.

Research Around the World

                                              About ECDVU in Sub-Saharan Africa:
While looking through ecd website, I was able to view some of their research topics. For Example;
 
                      1.The Development of an Integrated Early Childhood Development Urban Model Training Program for Informal Minders and Community Volunteers in Ghana; BY;Felix Agorsah
 
 
                     2.Building Community Leadership for Quality Sustainability in Madrasa Preschools: The Case of Madrasa Preschools Post Graduation Support BY:Asha Mohammed Ahmed
 
 
                    3.The Status of Coordination and Supervision of Early Childhood Education in Ghana BY:Margaret Amponsah

However there were some new insight I was able to learn about early childhood in Ghana, Tanzania. For example;Ghana office of UNICEF introduced the IECD program aimed at promoting the survival, growth, protection, and education, all key components of development of the child aged 0-8 years. I was  also able to learn about early childhood education in Ghana dates back over 160 years to 1843. I was amazed how long early childhood education has been around. Even though it has not been until 1961, however, that institutions were put in place to formalise this service to young children. Since then, major changes and activities have taken place. These include formulation of policy guidelines for nursery education. http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/index.php

There were also additional information I also recognized on this website: ECDVU participants work with a number of highly respected ECD faculty.Inclusion in ECDVU was not based solely on a self-identification application process typical of graduate level educational programs. Instead, in most cases, the names of ECDVU candidates emerged from an in-country process that brought together an inter-sectoral ECD country committee to identify significant early childhood goals for the country in the years ahead.Even though individual aptitude and sustained commitment are critical factors in candidates' success, the ECDVU is not primarily about individual learning and development. It is primarily concerned with advancing ECD within each participating country, and across sub-Saharan Africa, through a "flow-through" of information and involvement in the candidate's learning by the larger ECD "community" within his or her country. http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/index.php

Therefore, I find this website to be highly informative about international early childhood development, education. Even-though each research I have read about was based on different criteria. Their foundation was based on helping communities, families and children development. However among all the different financial support of the following organizations: For example; World Bank:Norwegian Educational Trust Fund; UNICEF;UNESCO;CIDA;Dutch Government, and many more. ECD website was excellent.

Reference:

 http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/index.php

http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/major_reports.php

Research that Benefits Children and Families—Uplifting Stories

                                                           Down Syndrome
Down Syndrome has touch my life in many ways. My children have grown up in a very ordinary school district and to seem to have a lot of friends. During the fall they play football, the winter they played basketball and the spring it was softball. There was one kid in the neighborhood that had Down Syndrome but to my kids and the other kids in the neighborhood he was just like everyone else. Until one night we had away game and  some one called him a rude name and my son decided to hit the kid for saying such a rude name and it cause a huge fight between the two teams. Myself and the other parents in the neighborhood decided to seek professional help. We wanted our children to understand what Down Syndrome is and that people who have it can have a normal life.

About Down Syndrome:
Down syndrome (DS), also called Trisomy 21, is a condition in which extra genetic material causes delays in the way a child develops, both mentally and physically. It affects about 1 in every 800 babies born in the United States.The physical features and medical problems associated with Down syndrome can vary widely from child to child. While some kids with DS need a lot of medical attention, others lead healthy lives

Reference:
kidshealth.org › Parents › Diseases & Conditions
www.mayoclinic.com/health/down-syndrome/DS00182‎

Personal Research Journey

There are many reason researcher studies child development. developmentlists begin with curiosity and then seek the facts, drawing conclusion only after careful research. However child development is divided into four equal parts to make a whole child. Therefor, I chose for my simulation is Early Childhood; Cognitive Development between the ages of 2 and 6 years of age understanding conservation and what is logic or not logic.
Through-out my teaching with  pre-school children. I have personally watch how children eyes have lighten up through-out the years over many fairy-tale stories.Children begin to think symbolically and learn to use words and pictures to represent objects. They also tend to be very egocentric, and see things only from their point of view.

Preoperational Stage:

"During this stage, young children are able to think about things symbolically. Their language use becomes more mature. They also develop memory and imagination, which allows them to understand the difference between past and future, and engage in make-believe.

But their thinking is based on intuition and still not completely logical. They cannot yet grasp more complex concepts such as cause and effect, time, and comparison."(Inhelder&Piaget,pg257, 1964)

 

Reference:

 

Berger, K. S. (2012). The developing person through childhood (6th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers

Berger, K. S. (2012). The developing person through childhood (6th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers: Inhelder, Barbel, & Piaget, Jean, (1964) The early growth of logic in the child.

 

 

CONSEQUENCES OF LEARNING

Through-out my eight weeks journey the three consequences of learning about the international early childhood field in a professional and personal development are.
1) When I first start to engage with my colleague over seas my understanding was unclear of the struggles in Egypt school system. The decline of many student attendance because of political problems have made the country standards academically decline. Many of the families who could afford to send their children to private American or French Pre-school happen to be 20% percentile that is considered wealthy. However my gaining of understanding is that we don't realize how lucky as teachers and parents we are to have are children attend school with out a correct regime in power.

2) Even-though Egypt school system have had it rough I was able to network with many colleagues. Mai have been my main resource with pictures and events. I was able to learned that teacher do not make huge salary and recently a union was form than it was broken than it was formed again and than broken. Many of the teacher in Egypt are true teacher because they may teach all day than turn around and tutor individual children after school. I learn from this experience is true dedication and loving to teach. I learned that high-quality teacher's are based on the amount of caring and time educating individual students in other countries.

3) Through-out my journey I was able to meet some many lovely colleagues. I am proud to say. Mai will visit me soon from Egypt. I am glad we are able to keep the communication open. I was able to learn a lot about Egypt early childhood field and their school system. I was able to network and receive resources that can help many of my diverse student and I was able to help them with resource from American schools. Networking help me with information that I was able to share with other colleague.

Therefore, my goal to international awareness and collegial relations is to be able to communicate and share resources when necessary. There should be a open door at all times. We are colleagues from different parts of the world but we share the same interest. Teaching Early Childhood Education. I really enjoyed these last past eight weeks. I hope to see everyone next class. I enjoyed reading everyone blog.

EXCELLENCE +QUALITY

OLD VS NEW
Mai, my professional colleague from Egypt, has englighten me withwith execellence and quality and how it became such a importants to so many women.In ancient Egypt, boys from wealthy families started school at the age of four. Before a child started his first year of school, his father decided what his son's occupation would be in the future. Egyptians were very practical, so kids at schools were taught only the subjects that would be at schools were taught only the subjects that would be useful in their career. The only boys who were taught mathematics were the ones that were going to be tax collectors. As time went on the schools in Egypt has change and young girls were able to participate in education. To many, Egypt men this is considered a honor to educate your daughters before marriage.

 

 As time moved on young girls were accept to receive education and to work out of homes. Many earned professional jobs and became doctors and lawyers and teachers. Mia Hany who is my contact in Egypt explain that excellence and quality, is based on thier performance and which regime is in power. They do not have  Tearcher union and protest can cause their life. Durning time of the protest hundreds of teachers were fired and transferred during the pro-democracy demonstrations, and the union is seeking their reinstatement.Teacher salaries in Egypt are abysmally low. Public school teachers are among the least paid civil servants in Egypt and still they are blamed for all the corrupting in the educational system.  Many tearchers privatley tutor other students after school becuase our class have more than 40 student and their no such thing and as aid in public schools. Most of the children have a private tutor or go to British or American Schools where their parents can afford for private lesson but those parent who can not afford the private lesson. Many teacher tutor for free. The government still state that Egyptian Teachers are the blame for the over size classes and run-down schools. Tearchers protesting and asking for more money and better schools. Mia, discuss that quality and excellence is so complex in Egypt future and was so well plan in it past.

EXCELLENCE:

Mia, quoted my word excellence as a word of the past vs the future. In Egypt there are many schools American schools and British schools, French school and many more. The richer you are the more private of a school your childlren will attend. In Egypt education is based on quality of life style you live. How much money you make every year. many tearcher would love to further their education but finances is a huge problem in Egypt future. Mia was very lucky to finish her Early childhood master program on-line and her school were she works at paid for it. In many other cases their is no extra money from the government or teachers who can barely survive with their salary. this is called Egypt future.Where their past was filled with encouragement and a very rich economy and no worries for their future.