Saturday, August 13, 2011

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3



My contact is not available to work with me this week.  Therefore I would like to share insights I gained about issues related to international early childhood education from the UNESCO’s “Early Childhood Care and Education” website.   
After exploring the site thoroughly, I found information in the sites links Access, Quality, Investment and Governance.  Fill of important reminders that having an education is still a battle in many place of the world.  
 Strengthening education systems, Early Childhood very interesting:  The link
Access, Supports the importance of early childhood.
Quality, more support on why high quality childhood education and care for all children no matter their social economics.   
 Investment, Early childhood not being a top priority is a worldwide concern.  The article about; The Jomtien Declaration on Education for All (EFA), working to get the government to understand and support the importance of early childhood in basic education as a whole.
Governance, The overall goal and mission of the organization is the importance of strengthening the education systems.  It reminds us of the prejudices women in the world still face having no right to basic education. 
The article and information about the world observes the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the child and the differences that it has made on a child’s right to an education.
The Policies Brief, shares articles about educational debates from around the world.
The site has many interesting articles of real life educational experiences.   

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