Children are our future – so how do we give them the best beginning for a happy and healthy life?
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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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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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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Enroll in The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood…
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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 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…
Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2020 Jun. 4
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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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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…
Q&A | Pia Rebello Britto | 2021 Feb. 17
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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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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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