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Early Care and Education Programs

Early Care and Education Programs

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Introduction: Early Childhood Development for…

Introduction: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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The State of the World's Children

The State of the World's Children

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Cognitive Development and Executive Function from…

Cognitive Development and Executive Function from 3 to 8

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Socio-emotional Development from 3 to 8

Socio-emotional Development from 3 to 8

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Physical Development from 3 to 8

Physical Development from 3 to 8

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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,…
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Language Development from 3 to 8

Language Development from 3 to 8

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Uganda Case Study

Uganda Case Study

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Social Protection Programs

Social Protection Programs

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2017 Apr. 14

Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2017 Apr. 14

From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020

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Hiro Yoshikawa answers questions related to The Best Start in Life course.
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Financing ECD Policies

Financing ECD Policies

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Q&A | Hirokazu Yoshikawa | 2017 Mar. 6

Q&A | Hirokazu Yoshikawa | 2017 Mar. 6

From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020

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Hirokazu Yoshikawa answers questions relating to the first week of our course The Best Start in Life.
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Conflict and Migration: Impacts on Childhood…

Conflict and Migration: Impacts on Childhood Development

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2018 Oct. 3

Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2018 Oct. 3

From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020

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Hiro Yoshikawa answers questions relating to the early weeks of the ECD course.
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Quality, Governance and Sustainability of ECD…

Quality, Governance and Sustainability of ECD Policy

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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…
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How is Childhood Development Policy Created

How is Childhood Development Policy Created

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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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.…

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