Getting to Know My International Contacts-Part 3

After looking through the “Early Childhood Care and Education” webpages I have gained many new issues related to international early childhood education that are related to my professional goals. From the time a child is born up to eight years old is the most critical period of a child’s life for learning and developing. One thing I have learned, the UNESCO supports the Early Childhood Care and Education programs. This program provided a safety healthy, nutritional and learning environment for all young children potential learning and developing. “UNESCO works in partnership with Member States, partners and other stakeholders to encourage timely and effective implementation of the Moscow Framework so that all young children develop their potential to the fullest” (Early Childhood Care and Education, 2010).

The education division along with many others is shaping the nationwide vision and determining the country’s development areas and issues. “Discussions are facilitated by two different analytical tools requires government agencies assistance like finance, development and planning” (Early Childhood Care and Education, 2010).

Tool on Relevance: Country level relevance; Labor market and world of work responsiveness; Global level relevance; Individual level responsiveness; Internal system coherence

Tool on Equity and Inclusion: Understanding inequity and exclusion; Policies and strategies to address inequity and exclusion

Young children should receive educational high quality programs that will enable them to develop beyond a certain age level. These programs should enhance young children growth and development in all domains. “High quality childcare programs will encourage all young children from disadvantaged or advantaged backgrounds, promotes motivation, confidence, good cognitive and linguistic development and school readiness” (Early Childhood Care and Education, 2010). Professional should be license, trained, use age appropriate materials, and attention should be focus on the child learning abilities. The learning environment may vary depends on the country. “Active involvement from parents and communities and relevant play and learning materials ensure that early childhood services remain relevant to the needs of the children and all other stakeholders and increases sustainability” (Early Childhood Care and Education, 2010).

“Below are two analytical tools (on Competencies and Lifelong Learning) helps countries if their education system is equipped to produce the right type of human resources and good citizens” (Early Childhood Care and Education, 2010).

Competencies: Conceptualizing learning outcomes; Ensuring learning outcomes: policies and interventions

 Lifelong Learners: Integrated system for lifelong learning; Vertical integration of the education system; Horizontal integration of the education system; enabling environments for lifelong learning 

Reference



“Early Childhood Care and Education” webpage (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/

Sharing Web Resources

In week one I chose World Forum Foundation to share with my colleagues. This week I explored through the World Forum Foundation website and found no issues for this week. But, I decided to share information on Working Initiative which took place June, 2012 in Moss Norway. In this meeting Children’s Rights was discussed among twenty professionals world-wide. This group argued the important of young children rights and implemented strategies to achieve these goal. “The goals is to prepare a meeting place for early childhood activists with an interest in building networks of knowledge, support, and advocacy for early childhood practice and policies in regions experiencing or emerging from armed conflict” (World Forum Foundation, 2013).

“The international Working Group on Peace building with Young children is a global initiative of early childhood practitioners, researchers and civil social organizations” (World Forum Foundation, 2013). This group works together for the well-being of children’s rights. This upcoming event of the World Forum on Early Care and Education is in April or May, 2014. These professionals want fairness for all young learners. Therefore, this they travels around the world making plans and arguing for the rights of each individual child’s needs.

World Forum Foundation. "A foundation whose mission is to promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings. Retrieved from "http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/about.php

Getting to Know My International Contacts-Part 2

The Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” Website is center around the well-being of all young children. The focus is on the child’s progressive out-come of survival, positive health issues, developing in all domains, and affiliations in society all over the world. The Center’s approach is to connect with the poor as well as the rich for young children to create and achieve their potential goals early in life. (Harvard University, 2013)

In the United States, the Global Children’s Initiative is seeking to advance by implementing a compelling research, public engagement and professional leadership development programs in child health and development from institutions around the world. (Harvard University, 2013) The global program will focus on three strategic areas:

· Reframing the discourse around child health and development in the global policy arena by educating high-level decision-makers about the underlying science of learning, behavior, and health, beginning in the earliest years of life.

· Supporting innovative, multi-disciplinary research and demonstration projects to expand global understanding of how healthy development happens, how it can be derailed, and how to get it back on track.

· Building leadership capacity in child development research and policy—focused on both individuals and institutions—in low- and middle-income countries to increase the number and influence of diverse voices and perspectives that are contributing to the growing global movement on behalf of young children.

The Global Children’s Initiative has also begun to build a portfolio of activities in three domains:

· Early childhood development

· Child mental health

· Children in crisis and conflict situations.

Each of these domains is being guided by professionals along with additional faculty, students, and agents beyond the Harvard community. The Harvard University’s the “Global Children’s Initiative will also benefit young children and their families outside the United States.

Reference

Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website. Retrieved from (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/

Sharing Web Resources

The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre is a collaborative research and policy programmer which involves Save the Children, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) and partners in China, India, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.

The most up-to-date information I finds important is , out of 100 children born in 2000, 30 will most likely suffer from malnutrition in their first five years of life, 26 will not be immunized against the basic childhood diseases, 19 will lack access to safe drinking water and 40 to adequate sanitation, and 17 will never go to school. (UNICEF) Also, I agree that lost opportunities in childhood cannot always be regained later; childhood is a one-off window of opportunity and development. (Research and Policy)

After reading this resource, my concepts on the part about informing effective policy to end childhood poverty, communicating research findings to policy makers, practitioners and advocates made me think of new ideas. If the system work together as a whole to promotes policies and programs, young children will have a better chance in perceiving their potential goals in life.

This information on this web helped me to understand how economist supports the early childhood field also. Professionals working to together implementing programs and policies to enhance the well-being of young children and their families are awesome. The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre support the early childhood field in many ways;

· It examines economic and social factors at different levels - international, national and local.

· Updates effective policy.

· Communicates research findings to policy makers, practitioners and advocates.

Other insights I noticed was “this website is intended to be a resource for policy makers, practitioners and activists concerned about childhood poverty. It contains policy briefings, research reports, photos, case studies and links on a wide range of issues related to childhood poverty”



Reference

Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s page from (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/)

Getting to Know My International Contact-Part1

“The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Center are a collaborative research and policy programmer which involves Save the Children, the Chronic Poverty Research Center (CPRC) and partners in China, India, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia”. This program has some major concerns on how to end poverty. “It is to deepen the understandings of the main causes of childhood poverty and poverty cycles, and increase knowledge of effective strategies to tackle them in different contexts” (Childhood Poverty, 2013). “Also to examine economic and social factors at different levels - international, national and local; which contribute to poverty in early childhood” (Childhood Poverty, 2013).

After reading through the resources on the website Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Center’s page from (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/), I have learned many things concerning poverty and gained insights about different issues. There are large numbers of young children worldwide dying every day that are living in poverty. Families and children that are living in poverty is a major concern.

One insight I have gained about issues of poverty, young children die from unhealthiness every year. “Over 10 million children under five still die every year from preventable diseases - the vast majority of them in developing countries. As one of the most powerless groups in society, children often bear the physical and emotional costs of poverty” (Childhood Poverty, 2013).

Another insight I learned, young children in their early years that are in poverty can be critically affected in their learning and development in all domains “Young children experiencing the crisis of childhood poverty for even a short period of time can affect the rest of their lives, and can lead to life-long learning difficulties and poor health” (Childhood Poverty, 2013). Poverty does not stand still. “Poverty can be passed on from generation to generation affecting the long-term health, well-being and productivity of families and of society as a whole.

Lastly, I have learned that plans are in force to decrease poverty. “The international community has committed itself to meeting the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. This includes halving poverty rates, cutting by two-thirds the deaths of children under five and ensuring that all children in the world complete at least primary education. Already progress is slower than is needed - only substantial investment in children now will enable this vital reduction in different forms of childhood poverty to be achieved” (Childhood Poverty, 2013).

Reference


Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s page from (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/)

Sharing Web Resources

The name and link that I chose is "A foundation whose mission is promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings." http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/about.php

“The World Forum Foundation is an organization that is accomplished through two types of gatherings of early childhood professionals”. World Forum on Early Care and Education; this is where professionals from all over the country get together every two years and share important ideas of how to deliver high quality program to young children and their family.

“Working Forums: In the alternate years, have regional meetings of early childhood professionals focusing on specific issues that takes place”. Both different gathering is meeting, discussing strategies, sharing important ideas and giving viewpoints for the well-being of young children and their families.

Getting Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

I chose the World Forum Foundation as my personal contact. "A foundation whose mission is to promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings." http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/about.php

Doing the screening of the video, there was many professionals from all part of the world sharing useful information and experiences concerning Early Childhood Education.

For my Expanding Resource, I chose Association for Childhood Education International
http://acei.org/. I also subscribed to the e-newsletter for more information.

There are exciting resources on the website concerning Early Childhood. There are many interesting learning tools to expand your knowledge. Also the web has free services for professionals in the early childhood field, special dates for events, programs and Education. It tells us what learning is important for all children and youth.