This week I was able to explore the Society for Research in
Child Development on a deeper level. The
first thing I did was follow some outside links from the website. There is a section called “Publications” that
has many professional journals and articles related to research in child
development. Some of them led to
interesting information, but many of them required a subscription to the SRCD
in order to access them.
One area of the site that I chose to thoroughly search was
the area entitled “Policy and Media”.
This section included information on policy updates in research in child
development. There is also a section within
this section called public comments. The
public comments section is a great place to learn the SRCD’s stance on many
issues. It contains their “press release”
answers on many topics.
There was no new newsletter from the site. This site sends out quarterly newsletters so
there has not been anything new since January.
I went back to the January newsletter to look for information on equity
and excellence in early care and education. Since we had not yet covered that topic I
thought there may have been something I overlooked. I was unable to find anything in the
newsletter that I haven’t already covered in previous blog posts.
This website has been a difficult one to have chosen for
these assignments. Without a
subscription, I worry that this website does not have enough substantial
information to be included as a choice for the “expanding resources” section of
our course’s blog assignment.
Allison,
ReplyDeleteThe link that you explored sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. I especially like that there is a section dedicated to public comments. Although, you couldn't find a lot of info about equity perhaps we can find something valuable in the other comments. I agree with you, finding info about our current topics is difficult on some of the sites.
Penny