I was not able to establish contact with any international contacts for the purpose of this course. Unfortunately, the one contact that I did have said that he was able to correspond with me frequently enough for him to be of any use to me.
I did review Harvard University's"Global Children's Initiative" website. I found it very interesting how the initiative is using science as a means to improve the lives of children all around the world. Three insights that I gained from this website are:
- International communication as to the needs of children needs to take into consideration the overall well-being of the child in order to be able to effectively education the children of the world.
- The Center on the Developing Child has made it part of it's mission to bring together people from different disciplines in an effort to work collaboratively to achieve the goals of the Center. This includes people who are of varying educational backgrounds as well.
- Each of the three domains has a focus that allows the researchers to concentrate their efforts on a certain portion of the world where the problem is more prevalent, although the research will apply globally.
I chose to listen to the podcast with Maysoun Chehab who directs the Arab Resource Collective which is responsible for teaching educators and care givers best practices for working with children. She talked about the effects of the destruction of schools within the villages that was caused by war. The program taught families in the war stricken area how to cope and how to help their children cope with the effects of war in their village. I found this episode to be eye opening because often times we do not consider the repercussions of war on the children. These children were not able to attend school because of the war; this causes many emotional issues for the children that children here in the U.S. do not have to struggle with.
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