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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…
Education for Sustainable Development and Global…
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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 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…
Early Child Development in Culture and Context
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This chapter discusses the revolution in neurobiology that are giving us a deeper understanding of how early experience affects the developing brain. Early experiences…
How Brain Architecture Develops
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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. …
Q&A | Aisha K. Yousafzai | 2020 Oct. 6
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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…
Early Childhood Development: Resilience and How…
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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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There are three main language skills that researchers follow in young children: phonological development, or the ability to perceive and produce the sounds of…
Language Development
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Adversity has disruptive effects on the development of the brain and body, especially when children are living in environments burdened by deep poverty, exposure to…
The Impact of Adversity and Toxic Stress on Child…
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In this video, Professor Richard Cash interviews Professor Vikram Patel on the topic of mental health issues on a global spectrum. This video is licensed under the CC…
Mental Health as a Public Health Topic
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This chapter is about cognitive and perceptual development form age zero to three, focusing on three themes that change a young child: attention, memory, and…
Cognitive Development and Perception
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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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This chapter discusses multi-sector platforms to promote ECD, including health, nutrition, education, social protection, and child protection. Children can experience…
Introduction to Multi-sector Aspects of Early…
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