These videos are from the SDG Academy course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development, first launched in 2016 and led by New York University Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa.
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From SDG Academy 7 August, 2019
1,625 playsAn 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 7 August, 2019
982 playsEarly 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 1 September, 2019
566 playsEnroll in The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. -
From SDG Academy 7 August, 2019
571 playsThis 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 7 August, 2019
552 playsThis chapter contains a brief introduction to the concept of development. Development is not just a function of nature or nurture, but the interaction between biology… -
From SDG Academy 4 June, 2020
223 playsThis 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 7 August, 2019
204 playsThis chapter discusses the revolution in neurobiology that are giving us a deeper understanding of how early experience affects the developing brain. Early experiences… -
From SDG Academy 6 October, 2020
85 playsRecording of a live Q&A with Dr. Aisha K. Yousafzai from the SDG Academy course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. … -
From SDG Academy 7 August, 2019
153 playsResilience is the capacity and the reality of overcoming adversity and producing positive outcomes in spite of risk factors that increase the probability of a poor… -
From SDG Academy 7 August, 2019
123 playsThe 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 7 August, 2019
127 playsThis 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 18 February, 2021
51 playsThis 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 7 August, 2019
78 playsThere are three main language skills that researchers follow in young children: phonological development, or the ability to perceive and produce the sounds of… -
From SDG Academy 7 August, 2019
142 playsAdversity has disruptive effects on the development of the brain and body, especially when children are living in environments burdened by deep poverty, exposure to… -
From SDG Academy 7 August, 2019
86 playsThis chapter is about cognitive and perceptual development form age zero to three, focusing on three themes that change a young child: attention, memory, and… -
From SDG Academy 7 August, 2019
66 playsLanguage skills continue to develop rapidly between the age of three to eight, most noticeably in vocabulary, pragmatics, which is how children use language in…