Early Childhood Australia is
stated to be comparable to NAEYC (Walden University, 2013).
This website provided a variety
of information. There are themed research items titled: Belonging, Being and
Becoming; School readiness and children’s transitions; Sustainability, global
warming and climate change; Baby and toddler sleeping, Child health and
childhood obesity (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/).
Driven by my research subtopic
(What aspects
of teacher-child interactions cause immediate and visible emotional stress in
children?), I am searching first clarify what emotions are easy to identify and
at what age might these emotions be visible. Also what is emotional stress and
how is it easily identified in the preschool setting? In an excerpt from their
newsletter it explains that “basic emotions—including happiness, interest,
surprise, fear, anger and sadness—are almost all present in early infancy” (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/).
The “[m]ore complex, self-conscious emotions, that involve how children feel
about themselves—including guilt, envy, pride, shame and embarrassment … come
later” (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
). Also since my research targets preschool years and environments I found this
website concludes that children in the preschool years are mostly able to
manage their emotions if they have had “sensitive, responsive caregiving” (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/).
