Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

I have not yet to hear a response from my international contact. I have sent an email, but at the same time I have started with my alternate assignment. The following people are from the radio podcast. I enjoyed learning and hearing from  people who share the same passion as me. The world forum also has a blog, I also invite my classmates to blog at http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/

The enjoyed the podcast because it promotes the exchange of ideas and insights between people and cultures on all topic related to young children. I learned that there are many resources and people who are as passionate about learning about poverty/early childhood and how to help in the communities who are affected. In my opinion we are all affected by poverty in one way or another. I listened to the following podcasts. 

Susan Lyon was intrigued by a small child’s conception of the word “city”, and began pondering how children think, eventually visiting Reggio Emilia and then bringing the “100 Languages of Children” exhibit to the San Francisco Bay area on two occasions. She initiated the Innovative Teacher Project, and began working with the Presidio Child Care Center and the San Francisco public schools. Currently she is working with an Italian architect to rehab a San Francisco structure into the first Italian immersion preschool.

The Presidio Child Development Center was featured in the Program Showcase section of the March/April 2011 issue of Exchange magazine.

Barbara Jones (BJ) founded the Pine Grove School in Falmouth, Maine in 1985  and celebrates the schools 25th anniversary. The school is a charming wood signal building nested in a grove of pine trees and was used as a  school house in 1917.

George Forman grew up in Monroe, Louisiana received his doctorate in developmental psychology at the university of Alabama, worked with Howard Gardner at Project Zero and he is currently  Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts and the Presidents of Videatives 

 I chose   Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union. At independence, Kyrgyzstan was one of the poorest ex-Soviet republics with an estimated 32.9 per cent of the population living below the Soviet 'poverty line'.

Growing poverty has also led to children working in a range of jobs, from working on family farms, to agricultural labour for others, domestic service, selling or working as porters at markets. Recent research estimate that approximately 24 per cent of children work either full or part time, similarly since transition there are now homeless or 'street' children in Kyrgyzstan's cities, and some reports of child prostitution and trafficking.

References

http://www.childhoodpoverty.org

 http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/