Podcast: I had the pleasure of listening to an interview with Susan Lyons an educator who wasinspired about the different facets in which children learn. She studied abroad, specifically in Italy and learned about how language affects children throughout the world. She brought back this in depth information and enlightened educators in the United States, focusing in her hometown of California. She implemented school programs for teachers and children, and focused on improving the quality of education in public schools. She started the project 10 years ago and is excited to say that her ventures paid off. Children are learning as never before and teachers are teaching with new innovative information and language tools that has never been utilized before. Susan Lyons takes pride in her work as an EC professional and continues to delight in impacting children and families around the globe.
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s Insights: I decided to look at how poverty affects the society of the country of China. It was enlightening to find that the poverty has decreased in recent years. The site attributes this decline to "far-reaching processes of economic and social transition " (Child Poverty Research and Policy Insights, 2012). Information also states that the country of China receives the most money from economic dealings and trade, except for the US. For the country, this could be good and bad, meaning the country's inhabitants are limited by the hold the country has put upon investment and employment. As far as childhood poverty is concerned, "4.2 million Chinese children live in absolute poverty and 8.7 million live in disadvantaged conditions" (Child Poverty Research and Policy Insights, 2012). Life expectancy for infants at birth is 71 years of age.
While navigating the Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre's Insight, I found an interesting quote, "Deepening understanding of the main causes of childhood poverty and poverty cycles, and increasing knowledge of effective strategies to tackle them in different contexts" (Child Poverty Research and Policy Insights, 2012). This quote rings true, my understanding has deepened to the point of advocacy. Not only do I feel as if I must take a stance as an EC professional, but I must stand because I am a human that values life.
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre. (2012, January 19). CHIP activities, International, country overviews. Retrieved from: http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/
Janille,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like Susan Lyons as really made a difference in the education of young children and teachers in helping with the language barrier we all face. I am also intrigued by the poverty in China. I remember my dad went there on business about 3 years ago. Although he brought back some awesome gifts, possibly not real and some possibly made by children. There really is no way to know. The story he told when he first arrived there is very troubling to me. He always walks when he goes places just to see what there is and China is so crowded there really is no other way around. He left the first time and went out to see what there was. He said it was very disturbing when he walked down the street and children with their parents would come tug at his pants leg and beg for money. He said it was very dirty and depressing. He went back to his room. He had heard from others how wonderful somethings were there thought and decided to try again. He said this time he went out and went the other way out a different door. He was amazed to see a Farari (sp) dealer. Some economy. He also said it was illegal to give to beggers which made seeing it more difficult. Also, the working conditions of construction there are extremely unsafe, he said people are injured and die everyday. Thank you for sharing and I to see a need to spread the word on poverty for the good of all mankind.
Ginny
Janille, I enjoyed reading your blog this week. You gave alot of information about China. I am also interested in Susan Lyons and her program, I am going to Google her and see what else I can read about her. Thanks for the great Blog!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your post this week. I am excited to see that the podcast actually works out. I was reluctant to try it. I killed myself trying to find a contact, but I am excited to see that the pod casts are informative. I was interested about the information on China, I would love to see the differences in them an Japan. I lived there for a while and saw that they were very different than the U.S.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your post this week, very informative. I really liked the quote you found on the poverty website. I think it holds true to many education professionals. I could not get the podcast to work. It seems like you were able to get a lot of useful information from it, so Im hoping to get that working in order to help me understand others view on poverty.
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