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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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http://www.naecte.org/