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From SDG Academy on 4 June, 2020
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… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 18 February, 2021
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… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020
Hirokazu Yoshikawa answers questions relating to the first week of our course The Best Start in Life. -
From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020
Hiro Yoshikawa answers questions relating to the early weeks of "The Best Start in Life" course. -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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,… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
The number of international migrants and refugees has grown tremendously between 1970 and 2015 and approximately 7% of international migrants are children between the… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020
Hiro Yoshikawa answers questions related to The Best Start in Life course. -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
This chapter discusses how ECD policy is created; it is difficult because ECD is cross-sectoral and relates to health, education, nutrition, social protection, etc.… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
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…