Research Around the World

I explored the website for the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) located at http://www.eecera.org/.  On this website I discovered that current international research topics range from the importance of play in early childhood development and learning, supporting early childhood education and care, leadership and diversity in the field, transitioning children from home to school, and social support and dispositions of early childhood education and care.  
This association has one large international conference per year, hosted by a different country.  The conferences works to bring together local, federal, public, and private early childhood sectors to learn and discuss current initiatives.  Within the association there are Special Interest Groups (SIG) ranging from gender balance in the field, learning and participation, professionalism, and birth to three.  I really enjoyed that each journal issue focused on one central theme, for example, the most current issue focuses on play and the current research initiatives of participating European, Asian, and African countries.