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From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
Education is crucial for global development and for the success of sustainable development, but this chapter discusses the content of learning to be good citizens in a… -
From SDG Academy on 6 October, 2020
Recording 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 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
There 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 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 7 August, 2019
This chapter discusses multi-sector platforms to promote ECD, including health, nutrition, education, social protection, and child protection. Children can experience… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
Resilience 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 on 7 August, 2019
It is important for the health sector to strengthen interventions to promote ECD because there are common risk factors that are not only harmful for physical health and… -
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
Aisha Yousafzai answers questions relating to week 4 of the SDG Academy course "The Best Start in Life. " -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
This 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 on 7 August, 2019
There is a need for an R&D platform and an innovation dimension to the ECD field. There are disparities worldwide in the social determinants of health and… -
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 contains a brief introduction to the concept of development. Development is not just a function of nature or nurture, but the interaction between biology…