EDUC 6163 wk 5- Research Around the World

This week I chose to look at the European Early Childhood Association.

One topic the EECERA formed a Special Interest Group about is balancing the ECE workplace in terms of gender. The SIG is looking at how gender roles play a part of adult-child-relations.  There have been government funded programs trying to get more males into the ECE profession. The SIG supports males in the workplace and realize there is a need for more of a differentiated view.

There were many SIG formed to discuss and research other ECE topics. Many of the topics I feel are similar to what we in the United States would be discussing and researching as well.  The topic about balancing gender in the ECE world is the one topic that interested me the most.

When looking throughout the website I found that there were a lot of "member only" items. I was not able to access their journal since I was not a member. There was also a lot of "who's who" within the organization, which I did not really care about. It seemed that the EECERA is a members only group and not a family or practitioners group. There were no sections related to family or practitioners.  It was disappointing to see that this large association is only geared toward members.