Share with your colleagues the area of the world you chose and why.
The area that I selected was the Middle East and North Africa. I selected this region because I have always been intrigued by its history. However, I know very little about this region in terms of education and early childhood practices.
Describe in detail some of the challenges that children in this region of the world are confronting.
According to UNICEF (2012) poverty and inequity are two of the biggest challenges that children face in this region.
Explain how these experiences might have an effect on children’s emotional wellbeing and development.
Poverty is likely to impact the children’s’ access to resources, health, stability, healthy development on a social, physical, and cognitive level. Inequity is likely to have a negative impact on females or certain race groups in terms of their cognitive development, emotional development, social development, and identity development.
Include a personal and professional reflection. Explain the insights you gained and the influences they may have on you as a person and as an early childhood professional.
One of the biggest insights gained from learning about this region is that no matter where children are located in the world, poverty and inequity are issues to a certain degree. However, in this region, these issues have a tendency to be more prevalent and severe than others. In learning this, I will be more sensitive to the needs of all children, but especially those from this region in a professional capacity.
References
UNICEF. (2012). Middle East and North Africa. Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/northafrica.html.
I agree with you that poverty exists all over the world. However, I feel in America we have many resources out there to help people. It seems that the regions on this website have extreme cases of poverty and little education opportunities. The more I learn about early education around the world, the more I am encouraged to make a difference.
ReplyDeleteI noticed both from my research and reading posts from others that poverty seems to be the biggest challenge our world is facing!
ReplyDeleteMary,
ReplyDeleteIt seems that poverty is the major concern of children living around the world. Usually, females of affected the most by inequality around the world, too. After completing this blog assignment and reading my colleagues blogs, it has opened my eyes how important for me as an educational professional to fight to help make sure all children throughout the world needs my help fight to make sure they receive an equal opportunity to get an education.
Mary
ReplyDeletePoverty is world-wide. People struggle on a day to day basis. It is so unfortunate that the people in Middle East and North Africa do not have many resources to help them over come these barriers. The children living in these parts of the world are at a disadvantage because they are more in-tuned with surviving. When you lack life's necessity it is kind of hard to sustain so how can we expect these children to stay focused within the classroom community.