Early Childhood Course Resources

               

              

                                                                                                   

                    Early Childhood  Resources

Position Statements and Influential Practices

• NAEYC. (2009). Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/dap
  
  
• NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on child abuse prevention. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ChildAbuseStand.pdf
  
  
• NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on school readiness. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/Readiness.pdf
  
  
• NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on responding to linguistic and cultural diversity. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/diversity.pdf
  
  
• NAEYC. (2003). Early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation: Building an effective, accountable system in programs for children birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/pscape.pdf
  
  
• NAEYC. (2009, April). Early childhood inclusion: A summary. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/DEC_NAEYC_ECSummary_A.pdf
  
  
• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller
  
  
• FPG Child Development Institute. (2006, September). Evidence-based practice empowers early childhood professionals and families. (FPG Snapshot, No. 33). Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://community.fpg.unc.edu/sites/community.fpg.unc.edu/files/imce/documents/FPG_Snapshot_N33_EvidenceBasedPractice_09-2006.pdf
• Turnbull, A., Zuna, N., Hong, J. Y., Hu, X., Kyzar, K., Obremski, S., et al. (2010). Knowledge-to-action guides. Teaching Exceptional Children, 42(3), 42-53.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

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Global Support for Children's Rights and Well-Being

Article

• UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf
  
  

Websites

·         World Forum Foundation
 http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us
 

·   World Organization for Early Childhood Education
    http://www.omep-usnc.org/

·   Association for Childhood Education International
  http://acei.org/.

Early Childhood Organizations

        ·  National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.naeyc.org/

        ·  The Division for Early Childhood
http://www.dec-sped.org/

·  Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
http://www.zerotothree.org/

·  WESTED
http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm

·  Harvard Education Letter
http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85

·  FPG Child Development Institute
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/

·  Administration for Children and Families Headstart's National Research Conference
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/

·  HighScope
http://www.highscope.org/

·  Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/

·  Center for Child Care Workforce
http://www.ccw.org/

·  Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/

·  Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/

·  National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education
http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/

·  National Child Care Association
http://www.nccanet.org/

·  National Institute for Early Education Research
http://nieer.org/

·  Pre[K]Now
http://www.pewstates.org/projects/pre-k-now-328067

·  Voices for America's Children
http://www.voices.org/

·  The Erikson Institute
http://www.erikson.edu/

Professional Journals

• YC Young Children
• Childhood
• Journal of Child & Family Studies
• Child Study Journal
• Multicultural Education
• Early Childhood Education Journal
• Journal of Early Childhood Research
• International Journal of Early Childhood
• Early Childhood Research Quarterly
• Developmental Psychology
• Social Studies
• Maternal & Child Health Journal
• International Journal of Early Years Education

        

                                                                        

                                          

                      New Additional  Resources

       1.    Journal of Early Intervention

                  http://jei.sagepub.com/

       2.   Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

                 http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/

       3.   Early Childhood News

                 http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/