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Retrieved from www.unesco.org. August 15, 2015.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
UNESCO
UNESCO advocates for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programmes that attend to health, nutrition, security and learning and which provide for children’s holistic development (UNESCO, n.d.). One insight I gained was UNESCO found that most countries often promote alternative services for poor children with limited or no access to mainstream early childhood services (UNESCO, n.d.). i feel this gives an extreme disadvantage to poor children and that they are segregated from other children. Another insight I gained was that UNESCO feels that high quality childcare, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, promotes motivation, confidence, good cognitive and linguistic development and school readiness (UNESCO, n.d.). i felt they really hit the nail on the nose with their definition of quality early childhood education. My last insight from UNESCO was that once countries recognise the positive value of state investment in early childhood, the next challenge is to mobilise funds. Typically, government funding for early childhood is extremely small (UNESCO, n.d.). This is an ongoing battle for many countries is trying to help politicians understand the importance of early childhood education and the need for funding.
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Alysse,
ReplyDeleteGreat post! You know I agree with you on the funding on a local level. This is an issue worldwide even in the United States. Like you said is tough to show the politicians that our state children need more funding. I get really happy when I see early childhood professionals that are great advocates! Thanks for your post!
Alysse,
ReplyDeleteI also explored the UNESCO site. You summarized a lot of good information and I also learned that the funding seems to be the issue more than anything else. It's so unfortunate. While I recognize the worthiness of this organization, I am curious to know more about it as far as how it spends money that is raised and/or donated. I wish I was not as skeptical about how much of money donated to organizations actually goes directly to the needy.
Alysse, This is almost exactly what I stated in another post: we need to get everyone (all over the world including our country) to realize how important and critical early childhood education is. Once we get that idea across, then people will begin thinking about what we need to do to change it which will change funding and such. We have a long way to go but it's bound to happen eventually!
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