Although I have been disappointed because none of my
attempts to communicate with early childhood professionals around the world
have been answered I have enjoyed learning about different organizations that
are working to improve early childhood education.
I explored the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization website this week.
This organization is working to support early childhood education by
forming a foundation through policy development. One way this organization
works to accomplish this is through two planning strategies. The first is phasing. In this strategy the organization is working
to respond to the needs of young children in relation to early childhood. The second strategy is the one that I was
impressed by. It is called
partnership. In this strategy the
organization wants to work together to partner with other sectors. For example, social and health sectors
working together. By partnering together
care and education can be addressed within early childhood and for older
children.
I also read about quality, access and equity within this
organization. While reading about this I
kept seeing the 1990 Jomiten Declaration on Education for All (EFA) and the
2000 Dakar Framework for Action. I wanted to learn more about these policies
since it was obviously important to the organization. The EFA believes that all learning begins at
birth and early childhood education and care is an important and basic part of
education. The 2000 Dakar Framework for Action is based on improving early
childhood education as part of its six main goals.
The UNESCO is working hard to improve early childhood
education. The website offers several
resources including publications, evaluation reports, statistics, etc. There is a lot of great information on this
website.
Hi Amber,
ReplyDeleteLike you I also felt a little disappointed that I also never received any responses form my contacts, But like you I have also enjoyed exploring other websites and organizations within the Early Childhood field. I also enjoyed hearing about the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, it sounds like they are doing great work and working hard to support Early Childhood Education. Great Job!
Sylvia
Amber, I believe we have seen, explored and learned a lot more about education around the world by not receiving responses to our contacts. We would have been limited to just their view and not the world view. I know I have. I have also seen the great effect partnerships have on accomplishing goals. We are learning that we can get more done if we work towards the same mark together especially when there are people from within the issue that can share concerns and possible solution and those that is there to help resolve the issue.
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