The site I am interesting in the most is the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA). The group is founded in late 1980's, original a forum from colleagues in Europe for supporting the quality research in early childhood education.
Currently, the association is influence in the whole European by owning one of the most prestigious early childhood journals, the Journal of EECERA. The current trustees have led a number of national and international large-scale research projects including the Effective Early Learning Programme; the Accounting Early for Life Long Learning Program; the training to early years' practitioners in more than 75 local authorities across the UK; the INCA, OECD Starting Strong and the Children Crossing Borders project; the program development in contexts of ethnic division, as a part of the "Joint Learning Initiative on Children and Ethnic Diversity; a network of action research in which pedagogues, students and academic researchers work together to gain insight into shared issues; a national project on the reconstruction of meaning and the development of quality in early childhood education.
My surprise is the EECERA not only influences in European but also in the world wide by its country coordinators.
EECERA Country Coordinators
Deborah Harcourt Deborah.Harcourt@acu.edu.au Australia
Ludo Heylen Ludo.Heylen@ped.kuleuven.be Belgium
Mônica Pinazza mapin@usp.br Brazil
Lynne Zhang lynnezhang@126.com China
Jiaxiong Zhu 13801916040@126.com & tongzhouzhj@yahoo.com.cn China
Eleni Loizou eloizou@ucy.ac.cy Cyprus
Stig Broström stbr@dpu.dk Denmark
Tony Bertram drtonybertram@crec.co.uk England
Marika Veisson veissonm@tlu.ee Estonia
Sylvie Rayna srayna@wanadoo.fr France
Pamela Oberhuemer pamela@oberhuemer.com Germany
Sofia Avgitidou saugitidoy@uowm.gr Greece
Jóhanna Einarsdottir joein@hi.is Iceland
Irene Gunning igunning@earlychildhoodireland.ie Ireland
Tullia Musatti tullia.musatti@istc.cnr.it Italy
Miwako Hoshi-Watanabe miwakohw@kpe.biglobe.ne.jp Japan
Maureen Mweru maureenmweru@yahoo.com Kenya
Kayoun Chung kayounchung@gmail.com Korea
Valerie Sollars valerie.sollars@um.edu.mt Malta
Monika Röthle Monika.rothle@uis.no Norway
Sara Araújo saraujo@ese.ipp.pt Portugal
Nikolaj Veraksa neveraksa@yahoo.com Russia
Aline-Wendy Dunlop a.w.a.dunlop@strath.ac.uk Scotland
Hasina Ebrahim EbrahimHB@ufs.ac.za South Africa
Miguel Zabalza zabalzaberaza@gmail.com Spain
Maelis Karlsson Lohmander maelis.karlsson-lohmander@ped.gu.se Sweden
Elly Singer E.Singer@uu.nl The Netherlands
Mehmet Toran mehmettoran@yahoo.com Turkey
Ebru Aktan ebru.aktan@yahoo.com.tr Turkey
Nancy Barbour nbarbour@kent.edu USA
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