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National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
http://www.naecte.org/
I chose this organization because one of their purposes is
to provide a forum for consideration of issues and concerns of interest to
educators of early childhood teacher educators.
In addition, they facilitate the interchange of information and ideas
about research and practice.
On their website, you can view past newsletters. One that I found of interest was the Summer
2012 issue in which they were requesting applications for the study tours that
go to New Zealand. It is a joint venture
between the state of Washington and New Zealand to observe their early childhood
professional development work because of their exemplary early childhood
educational system.
Although, there was no specific information about
economists, neuroscientists, and politicians on their website, in the Winter
2012 newsletter I read about regional updates on programs and how funding was
being received to facilitate these programs.
The website addresses issues and trends in the early
childhood field by allowing doctoral candidates to present their dissertations
at their annual conferences and by having a link on the website to books
written by various members. Some of the
book topics are emerging literacy, bilingual classrooms, cultural fluency, and
global migration and education.
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