Monday, February 4, 2013

Blog Assignment: Research Around the World



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/).

1 comment:

  1. I also took a look at this website. The index made this site easy to access the topics you want to research. What age do preschoolers began to develop more complex emotions?

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