International Reseach Information

When viewing the website offered by the University of Victoria, I had the opportunity to read articles from the university’s students. The School of Child & Youth Care allows their student’s to upload valuable information that professionals and families can learn from. The student’s have listed different Major Projects that focuses on the well being of child development in the Sub-Saharan parts of Africa. (SSA) I think that it is great to learn and create diverse ideas that opens doors for deeper understandings of how professionals approach different avenues on ways to enrich professionals development, involve families in programs and their activities, and ultimately protect and support the well-beings of young children. I like how the website offers topics of research that ranges from empowering professionals, to families, to communities that young children reside in and their individual family status. The website is an umbrella that has helped me to further understand how much family involvement means to other children in other countries, such as Africa. I appreciated viewing the ways that the University of Victoria tackle situations that foster development period, as well as ways to improve methods, knowledge and different paradigms of professionals when supporting early child development. What touches me the most is that such collaborators is needed here in the United States. I really appreciated the article, Assessing the Influenced of Different Early Childhood Development Models on Pre School Readiness in Kenya by a student by the name of Samuel Nguruiya from the University. Young children’s families were studied and compared. I agree with the author when he speaks of culture and the need for shifts in paradigms. Everyone views development differently, but the fact still remain that our young children’s development needs attention globally. References: Nguruiya, S. (2004). Assessing the Influence on Different Early Childhood Development Models on Children’s School Pre-School Readiness in Kenya. University if Victoria http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/documents/major_projects/Ngaruiyae41d3.pdf