UNESCO’s Early Childhood Care and EducationWebsite:
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I am glad that I gained a chance to view this website, I have never heard of this organization/effort and I have added this website to one of many many EC professional resources:
* I became interested when I read UNESCO's mission. UNESCO's mission is similar to that of Head Start and Early Head Start. Nevertheless, internationally this program faces broader and deeper issues than that of American based programs. A portion of their mission statement is as follows:
"The foundations of human development are laid during the child's early years and thus early childhood requires an integrated approach to the child's care, development and learning.
Early childhood care and education (ECCE) is more than a preparatory stage assisting the child’s transition to formal schooling. Today, early childhood policies are placed within a broader context of social development, gender equity and poverty reduction.
Early childhood care and education (ECCE) is more than a preparatory stage assisting the child’s transition to formal schooling. Today, early childhood policies are placed within a broader context of social development, gender equity and poverty reduction.
UNESCO leads the international policy drive for an integrated early childhood care and education system that encompasses both the well-being and holistic development of the child. Our mission is to support early childhood policy development with the aim to build a solid foundation for a child’s lifelong learning.
UNESCO actively works with Member States in their efforts to develop and strengthen their national capacity to meet the first goal of the 2000 Dakar Framework for Action, which aims to expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education for all" (UNESCO, 2012).
*While exploring the site, I clicked on the 'Who's Who' tab and was able to see the different people who are connected with UNESCOs initiative throughout the world. Thus, since I was not able to make contact with any international professionals thus far, I emailed a few of those professionals included on the 'Who's Who' page and I hope to hear from them soon. I truly used this resource/website to make an international resourceful connection. We'll see how it goes...
*Since one of our issue/trends in this course is 'quality' I decided to click on the 'quality' tab located under the Early Childhood space. When navigating this icon, I discovered that UNESCOs stance of quality in care coincides with that of what we have been learning and researching in class. UNESCO states, "High quality childcare, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, promotes motivation, confidence, good cognitive and linguistic development and school readiness" (UNESCO, 2012).
Great Post Janille. I clicked on your link at looked at the website. I was very impressed with all of the resources. I really enjoyed all the international information we learned in this class.
ReplyDeleteGood site, huh? I also really liked it. You and I both know what a push there is for school readiness. Sometimes I think it might be hard to keep that level of quality while trying to attain school readiness
DeleteFirst I must say that I have yet to figure out how to make my page as pretty as yours and Stacie's, it looks so good. On the note of this week, this site you went to sounds awesome. I will have to check it out. I truly enjoyed the post about how children learn and how they need to start early. this is a great argument for our field of study. great job this week.
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ReplyDeleteThis websites provides more global insight into the EC world. It provides wonderful connection resources in the field. It's great to know that so many of us are on the same page that an early start is a good start. High quality care makes a difference in the early development of children as you found in this sight. Often when I think of quality I have thought of it has care with credentialed teachers. I have learned through the video with Dr. Vasquez that all teachers in the field make a difference. We should make an effort to form partnerships with those non credentialed in the field because we can learn from each other. Thanks for sharing this resource.
Ginny
I enjoyed the website also, and yes promotes programs that are similar to that of Headstart. I was extremely impressed with the video about continuing to speak the mother tongue. Children need to learn English, but should never be made to feel like they should have to forget their native language. Their native language is defines their culture,and when it is lost, part of their culture is lost and remains silent, until it is forgotten and extinct. This website covers a wide spectrum of ideas etc and it seem to be doing a lot good and drawing the help of many to keep its mission alive.
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