Today!

Hey all,

Just thought I would add a quick note nothing that relevent really but thought I would put it out there.

Watching a video at the moment in Lins lesson, although I am really enjoying this module I am finding some of it difficult as it obviously brings up some memories of my Dad when there are people are remembering what theyre Dad was like and I am being able to empathise with how they feel. I mean its not like I had to watch him go off to war but I do feel that he was taken far, far too early from us and its unfair, there are Dads out there that don't care about their children or they seem not to but one that was a great Dad was taken away before his time.

I am trying to disconnect myself from this film slightly as I have been feeling a little bit emotionally raw but it will pass and I will get through it all at some point.

No matter how upset I get it won't bring him back but it still hurts.

Sorry for such a deep post but I had to write it somewhere.

Love to all . xx

Books

Hey guys!!

Sorry it has taken me forever to get round to this.

This is a list of books that I own and I can give a bit of an explanation of how they have helped me etc. I have picked up some along the way so I may be a little rusty :P

Child Development: An Illustrated Guide 2nd edition - Carolyn Meggitt

The Student's Guide to Writing: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (Palgrave Study Guides) - John Peck and Martin Coyle

Introducing Freud - Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate

Cite them right: The Essential Referencing Guide (Palgrave Study Guides) - Richard Pears and Graham Shields

Sociology for Childhood Studies (Child Care Topic Book) - Alan Yeo and Tina Lovell

Understanding Child Development: Linking Theory to Practice (1st Edition) - Jennie Lindon

Understanding Child Development: Linking Theory to Practice (2nd Edition) - Jennie Lindon

Safeguarding Children and Young People: Child Protection 0-18 years - Jennie Lindon

Developmental Psychology: A Students Handbook - Margaret Harris and George Butterworth

Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood - Allison James and Alan Prout

Development and Disabilities: Intellectual, Sensory and Motor Impairments - Robert Hodapp

Supporting Special Needs: Understanding Inclusion in the Early Years (Professional Development) - Penny Tassoni

Childhood and Society: An Introduction to the Sociology of Childhood - Michael Wyness

Education and Social Change in Liberia: New Perspectives for the 21st Century - Tarnue Carver Johnson

Research Methods in Education (5th Edition) - Professor Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison

Making Sense of Every Child Matters: Multi-professional Practice Guidance - Richard Barker

Children, Play and Development - Fergus P. Hughes

Early Childhood Studies: an holistic indroduction, 2nd edition - Margaret Woods and Jayne Taylor

Learning Through Play - Babies, Toddlers and the Foundation Years - Tina Bruce

Advanced Early Years Care and Education: For Levels 4 and 5 - Iain MacLeod-Brudenell, Vicky Cortvriend, Janet Kay and Elaine Hallet

Understanding Children's Development (4th Edition) - Peter K. Smith, Helen Cowie and Mark Blades

Early Childhood Studies: Principles and Practice - Jane Johnston and Lindy Nahmad-Williams

The Developing Child - Helen Bee

Constructing Childhood: Theory, Policy and Social Practice - Allison James and Adrian . James

The Sociology of Childhood - William A. Corsaro

The Exam Skills Handbook (Palgrave Study Skills) - Dr Stella Cottrell

How Children Learn: From Montessori to Vygotsky - Educational Theories and Approaches Made Easy - Linda Pound and Cathy Hughes

How to Observe Children, 2nd Edition - Sheila Riddall-Leech

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships - Eric Berne

Thats all thats on my bookshelf at the moment but I am constantly expanding I have my next one in my sights already :P

Hope you are all well. I shall add notes to these at some point but it has taken me ages to put them all in and link them so I don't have the energy. Walked for miles today so I think dinner, bath and bed for me....

Niiiiight

Laterzzz xx

Journals!!

Hey...

I've been trawling through a few sites and I have found (what I think) may be useful journals for our different modules. Granted I have been doing this while I am still slightly hungover so they may not make as much sense tomorrow lol.

Rachel:

The Millennium Project: a plan for meeting the millennium development goals. J Sachs… - Lancet, 2005 - earth.columbia.

Education in liberia MD Solomon - Science Education, 1959 - Wiley Online Library

Fiona:
Play -
Jordan, E. (1995) Fighting Boys and Fantasy Play: the construction of masculinity in the early years of school. Gender and Education [online], vol. 7, no. 1, p69-86

Martin, W. and Dombey, H. (2002) Finding a voice: Language and play in the home corner. Language and Education [online], vol. 16, no. 1, p48-61

Hyne, S. (2003) Play as a vehicle for learning in the foundation stage. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Student Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 10 September 2003.

http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/talk_to_your_baby

Lin:
Inclusion and SEN -

Cook, T. (2004) Starting where we can: using action research to developI inclusive practice. International Journal of Early Years Education [online], vol. 12, no. 1, p3-16

Nutbrown, C. (2004) Inclusion and exclusion in the early years: conversations with European educators. European Journal of Special Needs Education [online], vol. 19, no. 3, p301-315

http://www.inclusion.org.uk/

Also I have put a fair few on my wall on Facebook over the past few days so I hope someone will find them useful but its good for me to have them all in one place.

Latersss xx

Exam cards

Hello All!!

Today was a great lesson. I really enjoyed it but something did seem to click for a subject that could be seen as being quite dry... no offence Rachel. There was a lot of discussion which I prefered from a lesson that was so power-point heavy.

I used my new dictophone today as well and I was surprised how much it picked up and all of the discussion I had forgotten about in such a small time but also how much I move around and russle papers lol. I must learn how to sit still more often :P

This evening I have been doing some exam cards for Lins lesson. I shall post them on here (or at least try to)

If anybody sees any mistakes or improvements then please please let me know.

Tomorrow we have Lins lesson where things just seem to go in and out of my brain so if I use my new toy then it may help.

It is so cold today!! I have so many layers on but its not helping... I might have to succum and put the heating on.

Right I'm off

Laterss xx

Today

Hey!!

As some of you may know it is my birthday :D but I have been at uni today so I thought I would just give a re-cap of what we have done this morning more for my benefit really but if someone finds it useful then that's great.

Originally, the term 'Third World' had nothing to do with a nation's economic development, or lack thereof :

First World
This term refers to so called 'developed' countries as a rule these tend to be:

• capitalist (an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit, usually in competitive markets)
• industrial countries
• and a bloc of countries that were aligned with the US after WW2, these also have more or less common political and economic interest.
• these include North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia

Second World
This term refers to the former communist-socialist (social, political and economic movement that aims at the establishment of a classless and stateless communist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production), generally these tend to be:

• industrial states
• formally Eastern bloc, the territory and sphere of influence of the USSR
• Eastern Europe (e.g. Poland)
• and some of the Turk states (e.g. Kazakhstan) these 2 examples are now part of the EU
• and China

Third World
This refers to all other countries that did not fit into first or second world countries but now this is used to describe "developing" countries.
This includes:

• Africa
• Asia
• and Latin America

The term Third World includes as well:

• Capitalist states such as Venezuela
• Communist such as North Korea
• Very rich countries such as Saudi Arabia
• and Very poor such as Mali

The factors that categorise Third World countries are:

• Political Rights and Civil Liberties
• Gross National Income (GNI)
• Human Development
• Poverty
• Press Freedom

The least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of countries that have been identified by the UN as "least developed". The UN used the following three criteria for the identification of the LDCs.

1. a low-income estimate of the gross national income (GNI) per capita.
2. their weak human assets and
3. their high degree of economic vulnerability.

There are 50 countries listed in the United Nations comparative analysis of poverty,

34 African countries, 10 Asian countries, 5 Pacific Island Nations and one Caribbean nation.

Fourth World
This term came into use in 1974 with the publication of Shuswap Chief George Manuel's: The Fourth World: and Indian Reality.
This refers to nations (cultural entities or ethnic groups) of indigenous people living within or across state boundaries such as:

• American Indian
• Aboriginal
• Maori

Going back to Third World countries especially if they are a communist controlled regime it may be difficult if there is a lack of press freedom and then they would have to live in an abusive, poverty-stricken country with no or very little of 'outing' them to the outside world. Before anyone who spoke out of turn or had anything to say in disagreement would be killed and brushed aside, however, now with the invention of the Internet and especially social networking sites such as Facebook, they can make what is happening to them public and this goes global in seconds. So if they are brushed aside and killed then other questions are asked.

Regions that became the 'black holes' for news and media at the moment are: Maldives, Nepal, China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Belarus, Pakistan and Bangladesh due to media companies being privately owned and freedom of expression does not exist.

Rostow - Stages of Growth - 1960

Traditional Society:

• Characterised by subsidence economy - output not traded or recorded
• existence of barter
• high levels of agriculture and labour intensive agriculture

Pre-conditions:

• development of mining industries
• increase in capital use in agriculture
• necessity of external funding
• some growth in savings and investment

Take off:

• increasing industrialisation
• further growth in savings and investment
• some regional growth
• number employed in agriculture declines

Drive to maturity:

• growth becomes self-sustaining - wealth generation enables further investment in value adding industry and development
• industry more diversified
• increase in levels of technology utilised

High mass consumption:

• high output levels
• mass consumption of consumer durables
• high proportion of employment in service sector

However the criticisms of this model are:

• too simplistic
• necessity of a financial infrastructure to channel any savings that are made into investment
• will such investment yield growth? Not necessarily
• need for other infrastructure - human resources (education), roads, rail, communications networks
• efficiency of use of investment - in palaces or productive activities?
• Rostow argued economies would learn from one another and reduce the time taken to develop - has this happened?

Reference: Calvert, P and Calvert, S. (2007) Politics and Society in the Developing World, 3rd Edition, London: Pearson Education Ltd

I have some bits and bobs that I'm going to include for Lin's lecture tomorrow regarding the Lamb Inquiry, The Bercow Review and the Salamanca Statement (which I should have done last week oops...)

Sorry to have probably bored you all.

Bye xx

Phone blogging

So Im trying out this last attempt to get blogging on my phone and I think this may be successful woop woop.

So testing...testing... 1...2...3...

I think we have liftoff.

Over and out. Okay I've ran out of things to say.

Night!!!! xx

OMG

OMG!! Im feeling really depressed now... I have spent most of today to find out the books that I need to buy and its come to almost £300... I know its worth it but still... Just thought I'd let you all know lol.

Bye xx