RJA #9: Evaluation of Sources

Periodicals:

"The Importance of Quality Ealry Childhood Education"

I looked mostly at the author of this article. I wanted to look at the credibility of the actual person writing the piece. I found that the author is quite credible and seems to know a lot. She has a Ph.D in clinical psychology and has done some extraordinary things for the ECE world in New Mexico. One important thing that shows me she is credible is that she provides training and technical assistance to Head Start early child development programs in New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle. Head Start is the "head honcho" of the ECE world and it takes a credible and know what you are talking about person to do training for them.
Rivera, Miquela "Importance of Quality Early Childhood Education". Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, The. FindArticles.com. 29 Oct, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3184/is_200803/ai_n32195045/

"The Economics of Early Childhood Education"

After looking at the article again I came to the conclusion that this was not a very good resource. The whole article is a paragraph long with information that I can find inside the body of another source. I was also looking for an author of the paragraph, there was not one. The only thing that I could find was the periodical itself which was market wire. I did not go into research detail about this periodical because I will probably not end up using it. If I do decide to use it then I will research market wire to find out how credible it is.
"The Economics of Early Childhood Education". Market Wire. FindArticles.com. 29 Oct, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200510/ai_n15748846/

Books:

"Theories of Childhood"

Well I pretty much asummed this was a great source because it was a "textbook" that I needed for one of my classes. I also looked at the same old publisher (Pearson Education Inc.), written 2000 and published 2006. The index is fairly long and it seems that there are some topics in there that can be useful in my research. After each chapter there are suggestions for further reading, some of these can be good sources to look into. I also read about the author. She has a masters in early childhood, cild care services manager for head start (mecca for ECE), and faculty member at the college of Lifelong Learning.
Mooney, Carol Garhart. Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget and Vygotsky. Pearson Education Inc., 2006.

"Exploring Your Role"

Again, a textbook needed for a class and a very good one I might add. The authors both have a lot of experience writing in the field and both work in Universities in the Education department. This particular book provides resources for teachers to look online about different "things" about children and their learning, these can become very helpful. It has tons of pages of resources that too can be helpful if and when I find the correct one. There are two different indexes one is a name index and the other is a subject index. These seem to be very helpful when looking for a specific "thing." This was also published by Pearson Education Inc. and this is the third edition.
Jalongo, Mary Renck, and Joan Packer Isenberg. Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2008.

Websites:

"The Importance of Early Childhood Education" edubook.com

This website makes me a little nervous, I am not sure how credible it really is, kind of seem likes a blog site for educational topics. It is copyrighted 2008 so it is fairly new. The author of the article seems to be some what credible but the about the author page that she wrote does not sound very professional to me. She is the director of a non-profit organization Project Eureka. I am not too sure about this so I will probably use something else before I use this and before I use this I will research the non-profit organization to see if it involves early childhood education.
http://www.edubook.com/the-importance-of-early-childhood-education/6837/

National Association for the Education of Young Children

This is a professional site, many early childhood schools follow the guildlines of NAEYC and recieve accrediation from them as well. There are different ways to contact NAEYC, through the website, phone and address. There are two diffrent toolbars at the top of the page that are very clear in what will be provided there. There is also a search bar so you can type exactly what you want to know and they will find it for you.
http://www.naeyc.org/