Sunday, February 23, 2014
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS PT 3
UNESCO's "Early Childhood Care and Education" website enlightened me on many issues. In 1993, nine highly populated countries Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan launched the E-9 Initiative. The countries are home to nearly half of all the world population under the age of 14. The initiative is aimed at achieving progress in basic education. The principals meet every two years to discuss the progress of the goals. Goals include improve access and equity in early childcare and education in these countries.
UNESCO is the leading agency in education helping all oountries develop and reform education systems from early childhood to adulthood. Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) provides the holistic development of children from birth till 8 years old. Primary and Secondary education is geared towards building a foundation to ensure lifelong learning opportunities for all. Higher education for adults in is the key to developing societies that all learners acquire knowledge skills, attitudes and values to be used lifelong.
UNESCO is also a supporter of gender equality. They promote the right to education for all. They advocate for girls education through the Global Partnership for Girls and Women's Education. They also promote gender equality in national education laws, policies and plans.
Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/
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Hi Karen,
ReplyDeleteIt seems as though UNECO is really a great organization, I'm interested in what they do, so I'm going to look at the website today. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Karen,
ReplyDeleteI also explored the UNESCO website on ECCE. I believe that they are doing a great job in educating us on the way forward with regards to early childhood. To me early childhood is still not promoted the way it should be. Well at least in my country persons are yet to recognize the importance of early childhood. I don't think many of us knew about the conference that was held in 2010. I wish third world countries like Jamaica could get the opportunity to participate more in these sonferences. Access, equity and quality are real issues that need to be dealt with in order for us to move forward. In Jamaica, we have invested millions of dollars in skills training and I found out if the government just spent even a quarter of what they spend on skills training on early childhood then we would not have to invest so much money on literacy and numeracy prgrams. Half of our educational worries would have been dealt with.
Judy