The website I chose to analyze this week is http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
Early Childhood Australia’s mission statement is:
Early Childhood Australia
will advocate to ensure quality, social justice and equity in all issues
relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years.
The website offers
a link to a series of books for educators that range from partnerships in early
childhood to the significance of adult-to-adult interactions in
early childhood education and care settings. All the books in the series are
evidence based and are backed up with years of research. These are topics that
pertain to everyone internationally. What I did find disappointing in this
website is that it does not offer much information if you are not willing to
buy. I was able to see they have man valuable resources but all of them are for
sale. In my opinion, this website was more of a business than an organization. And although just when I was about to give
up, I did find the link to the past newsletters which covered some good topics,
the focal point of the website is selling and not informing professionals. The
website even sells the membership. I was surprised this website was listed as a
resource.
Hey Dina! I researched the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal and noticed too that they were not willing to give up much information with out paying for it first. At first that seems rude, and unfriendly, but after thinking about it..these are educated scholars writing scholarly research journal information. They spend a lot of time and effort to create a research based project, which as we are finding out this semester is a lot of work! So I guess they can charge for it! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's quite disappointing and frustrating when professional sites require you to pay for every information. I wanted to pick this site initially but chose the optional sites for the same reasons you have stated. The site didn't really have good access to information.
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