Reaction Paper Early Childhood development

Introduction The aim of present paper is to provide the reaction for the several research paper conducted on the subject of early childhood development, issues and way out in order to tackle issues faced in early childhood development. Early childhood development is considered to be the most important stage for growth of children as this would decide the rest life of children as failure in providing development at this stage may lead children towards bad mental & physical health, lower level of education and incomplete holistic development. Present paper would refer several papers based on the early childhood development for the children and issue presented in these papers. A summary of these three papers presenting issues polices and concern over early childhood development would be made so as to provide brief idea of entire concept of early childhood development. Finally, reactions would be enclosed for the papers referred in relation to early childhood development. Reaction provided for these researches paper would not only summarize the major argument consisted in these papers but also provide the critical analysis of the issues discussed in the research paper referred under summary section of the paper. Hence present paper would provide summary of the major issues and opinion in form of reaction for these issues. Summary There are three papers referred for the early childhood development subject which can be summarized as below: Active Implementation framework for program success by Allison Metz and Leah Bartley

Science related with the evidence gathering for the program and practice for the early childhood development has improved significantly and as a result of the same it has become easy to measure the success of such programs. But the major cause of concern is the science related with implementation of program for early childhood development (Layzer et al, 2001). Present essay highlights an important fact where in implementation science and evidence gathering science can jointly remove the practice to implementation gap for the early childhood development. Present study outlines four important frameworks which are implementation stage, driver for implementation, policy-practice feedback loop and support for implementation from experts. Early childhood education and development in poor villages of Indonesia by Amer Hasan, Mailou Hyson and Mae Chu Chang Present study has been carried out for the poor villages in Indonesia and provides the level of educational, physical and mental development at early childhood stage for the children (Ackerman, 2004). Present paper assesses the need for the poor children at early childhood stage for complete development and defining the policy regime in order to ensure that children are getting proper resources for the early childhood development. Further present paper also explores the services for the low income group children in order to make the early childhood development for the children achievable. Parenting program: An important ECD intervention strategy by Judith L Evans Present paper highlights the importance of early childhood development in terms of the individual perspective as well as overall impact on the national development. Further role of parents into children early stage development has been highlighted as the most vital component for the children which works as milestone in their overall development (Filp et al, 1997). Early
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intervention program with proper intervention of the parents in each development stage can make a significant difference in overall child development. Further present paper evaluates the impacts of the early childhood development in terms of the physical health, school achievement and social behavior. The common issue which has been highlighted in the three papers is regarding requirement of the early childhood development among the children. Common issue highlighted is how critical ECD is for entire national development and what additional way out can be adopted for better adopting ECD. Reaction First paper for active implementation framework seems a scientific research paper giving accurate measurement and deep research pertaining to area of research. Scientific research for the paper has been named as it provides the proper measurement tools & process for the children development program. In addition to the measurement current paper offers a joint effort in order to eradicate gap between research and practice with the help of scientific research (Kotchabhakdi, 1988). Scientific research has been done by the author in terms of selecting accurate target group on which entire research is based and two different sample units have been selected and deep research has been carried out so as to make accurate measurements for the success factor for the early childhood development. Hence overall it can be said that present paper offers methodical approach for measuring success of implementation program into scientific way. Second paper gives a specific evaluation researching deep into statistics and trend into the rural places in Indonesia. Specific evaluation for the paper has been done wherein with the help of
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research data showing early childhood development issues in Indonesia have been gathered (Behrman, 2006). Further particular services in context to Indonesian rural group gives a way out for the issues of early childhood development and finally policy related matters for the early childhood development in Indonesia provide the need of policy development for eradicating issues. Hence overall it can be said that present paper gives high specificity in order to bring issues with early childhood in Indonesian rural villages. Third paper introduces the key element and result formation for the followers of special parental program in relation to early childhood development. Parental support and intervention has been highlighted as the key ingredient for overall physical, mental, educational and holistic development among the children. Further specific program highlighted in context to parental training for their children so that early childhood development can be properly imparted among the children with help of parents (Evans et al, 2000). Hence overall it can be said that parents are important part of the early childhood development among the students and plays a vital role in order to accomplish holistic development. Present paper introduces the role of parents in childhood development along with bringing about important results which have been gained by parents by following special program and extending special care for the early childhood development of their children.

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