In this week's Being Informed newsletter

1. Daddy Daycare Planned
2. News:  Minister's Comments Unmask Actual Purpose of ECE Taskforce
3. Using Controlled Crying to Train Children to Settle Themselves to Sleep
4. Early Childhood Management Forum
5. Call for Papers for Early Childhood Research Conference
6. Advice for Designing and Carrying out an Early Childhood Study
7. Facebook Friends Invited
8. Workshop to help you with 'Wow' Factor in Your Literature Review
 

1.  Daddy Daycare Planned

A lot of hours in writing submissions, in lobbying, and in stress for people whose time was taken away from children could have been saved.

The Minister for Education has now given a commitment that despite what the ECE Taskforce has recommended, funding will not be cut to parent-led ECE services. This is a significant important promise going into the general election.

The promise gives a hint to teacher-led services, childcare centres especially and to a lesser extent kindergartens that they are not as safe as they might have thought they were from further funding cutbacks.

For Kohanga Reo the ECE Taskforce report was the 'straw that broke the camel's back'. The Kohanga Reo Trust has been tolerant for years of the manipulations of government and misunderstanding of its philosophy and purpose and methods.

3.  Giving Clarity to Conflicting Opinions about Using Controlled Crying to Train Children to Settle Themselves to Sleep

Having a baby who sleeps through the night is often talked about as a sign of success as a parent.  The common method for achieving this is the Controlled Crying technique.  Find out about the value of the Controlled Crying technique, when and how it should be used, problems with it, age appropriateness and use in childcare and early childhood services.  Suggestions for other ways of supporting good sleep and the wellbeing of the child and parents or caregivers are shared.

* READ MORE:  Controlled Crying

4.  Early Childhood Management National Forum

Thursday 1st September in Wellington for ECE service managers, professional leaders, and owners.  This is a national event for all services throughout NZ.

* READ MORE:  See the programme of speakers and sessions. Register online by clicking here for the Events page

5.  Call for Papers - 13th NZ Early Childhood Research Conference 

26 - 28th January 2012.  A fabulous networking, professional development, and educational event not to be missed!  The call for papers closes very soon on 1st Sept. Contact us email: admin@childforum for a copy of the call for papers or click on the link below for a PDF copy

* READ MORE:  For details about the conference and to put in a proposal to present click here

6.  Advice in Designing and Carrying Out Early Childhood Research

Designing and carrying out research in the area of early childhood education is one that is attempted by many, including experienced and beginning researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students as well as by people working in a range of different early childhood services. For all, the principle of a robust design is key to successful data collection and analysis, but creating a strong design that is best suited to answering research questions and the research context can be challenging, particularly given ongoing tensions regarding the nature of appropriate educational research methods.

*  READ MORE - Paper by Claire McLachlan published in the NZRECE Journal, Vol. 13 and available online at ChildForum

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8.  Workshop: Critiquing Reviewed Literature to ‘wow' the Examiners

A half-day workshop at the Woodhill Park Research Retreat in Auckland is to be held on Saturday August 20th, 2011, 9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.  Critiquing reviewed literature to make selected evidence and arguments thread seamlessly throughout the whole thesis demonstrates academic credibility to examiners. The course will show you what examiners typically look for and will help you to better understand how to build a convincing and scholastically rigorous literature review.  Further courses may be planned.  For details and to register contact Jens Hansen, Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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