Research Around the World
While exploring the Early Childhood Australia website which is an equivalent to NAEYC, I found that they publish a quarterly journal, the Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (AJEC), which "offers evidence-based articles that are designed to impart new information and encourage the critical exchange of ideas among early childhood practitioners, academics and students (Early Childhood Australia, n.d.)." In the latest installment which came out in December 2018, some of the research studies included food allergies and anaphylaxis management within early childhood education and care, the effects of social-emotional learning programs have on children's social-emotional development, and determining if there is a sense of community among early childhood professionals who utilize the Supporting Nutrition for Australian Childcare (SNAC) website. The article that stood out for me was on food allergy readiness. Just recently, there was an issue in my classroom abou