Sharing Web Resources

            The organization that I have chosen to research is the Society for Research in Child Development and the link is http://www.srcd.org/ .  The organization’s focus is child development science research and contributing to knowledge-based practice and policy.  Its members include professionals, students, scientists and practitioners in the field of child and adolescent development.  There are links to access multiple other organizations that deal with funding; policy; science and professional organizations; child policy, research and funding organizations; global organizations and teaching resources.  There is a section that contains oral history interviews with major contributors to child development and child psychology.

  I enrolled in a one-year student membership and this has given me access to several beneficial resources.  The society publishes several online journals-Child Development, Child Development Perspectives, and Monographs.  I have access to social policy reports published and the Wiley library which contains books, articles, etc. 

SRCD also publishes a quarterly newsletter.  This newsletter contains the following sections:  notes from the executive director, biennial meeting news, report from the Office for Policy and Communications, teacher’s corner, report from the SECC, and members in the media.  It will sometimes include information on new books published by SRCD members, job opportunities, and an in memorium section for important contributors.  The OPC section in this newsletter discusses the implications for the field of early childhood that were part of President Obama’s State of the Union address on the 12^th of February.

I was able to download one article and two social policy reports that I will be able to utilize in the next couple of weeks during this class.  They discuss the topics of immigrants which I chose for this week’s assignment and poverty which is going to be covered next.  I had a chance to browse through a few of the extensive articles available and areas of research covered and it seemed to be a good resource for many of the assignments that I may have in the next several months.  I have access to the directory of members and was able to email one in Italy in hopes of establishing an early childhood contact that way.  I have had no luck as yet making any contacts up to now.