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An introduction to the course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This course is about children in the context of the…
Introduction: Early Childhood Development for…
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Early care and education is an important sector for young children because it is where children spend the most time aside from their family worldwide, and it corresponds…
Early Care and Education Programs
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This chapter is about socio-emotional development, about when the children develop the important skills for cooperation and contribution in terms of pro-social and moral…
Socio-emotional Development from 3 to 8
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This live Q&A session took place on June 4, 2020, and answered questions related to early childhood development, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2020 Jun. 4
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This chapter discusses the development of cognitive and executive function skills across the ages of three to eight, focusing on themes including pretend or symbolic…
Cognitive Development and Executive Function from…
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The Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) made no mention of Early Childhood Development except for infant mortality and maternal mortality, which the world has made…
The State of the World's Children
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This live Q&A session took place on Feb 17, 2021, and answered questions related to early childhood development, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Q&A | Pia Rebello Britto | 2021 Feb. 17
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Language skills continue to develop rapidly between the age of three to eight, most noticeably in vocabulary, pragmatics, which is how children use language in…
Language Development from 3 to 8
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Social protection policies protect the most vulnerable in society, and provide income or in-kind support to households, or increase access to other kinds of services…
Social Protection Programs
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Dramatic changes occur in the areas of physical, cognitive and executive function, language and literacy, and socio-emotional development between the ages of 3 to 8,…
Physical Development from 3 to 8
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Hirokazu Yoshikawa answers questions relating to the first week of our course The Best Start in Life. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2017 Mar. 6
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This is a case study of a high-quality program in Uganda, a largely rural country of 36 million people in which 20 percent of people in the country are under 5 years…
Uganda Case Study
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This chapter discusses the challenge of implementing quality in ECD policies, the kinds of institutions and governance that are needed and how policies can be sustained…
Quality, Governance and Sustainability of ECD…
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The number of international migrants and refugees has grown tremendously between 1970 and 2015 and approximately 7% of international migrants are children between the…
Conflict and Migration: Impacts on Childhood…
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Hiro Yoshikawa answers questions relating to the early weeks of "The Best Start in Life" course. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2018 Oct. 3
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There is a massive shortfall of financing for Target 4.2 of the SDGs, which is about quality early childhood development care and education for all children and…
Financing ECD Policies
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