Getting to Know Your Interational Contacts Part 3

 Solutions on early childhood development in the Asia Pacific region.
Children under the age of three years is an age that is often neglected in this region of Asia - Pacific. This region tends to focus on preschool and primary school years. Over three hundred participants came together from different countries.  UNESCO'S states even though the policy development in early childhood care and education in the Asia Pacific region has progressed much still needs to be done. The mortality rates for children under five needs to go down. Malnutrition needs to be reduced, increase access to services for children under three, and national framework needs to be established that are comprehensive and address the diverse needs of children from birth through early childhood.The conference aim is to equip policy makers, practitioner and parents with information on early childhood development for the under three period. Also they will have a number of hands on workshops on how to utilize resource materials.

Big Push Workshop to Accelerate Early Childhood Care and education in Africa
Among the 19African countries that have joined the Big Push initiative to accelerate education for all the four countries have chosen to focus on loosing early childhood care and education. The Big Push workshop want to familiarize the participating countries with existing training modules on indigenous early childhood care and education helping them to move forward. The modules form the IECCE model which provides tools skills and resources to people working with vulnerable children and families. One of the fundamentals of IECCE model is that local and indigenous children are to be educated within their cultural context.

The reason these two articles was interesting to me is because my focus in early childhood is being  an advocate for vulnerable children, I also believe that we must take a holistic view of the child which includes their culture.

Lima Statement Prioritizes Equity, Inclusion and Quality Education

The Lima statement is a calling for a guarantee that all have the right to education. The statement also respond to the diversity in the region. The document highlights the need for quality, equity, and  inclusion. This allows the teachers to have a key role in the education of the child. The Lima statement states that achieving equity and inclusion requires securing the right to education for all children, young people and adults. This will help them realize their potential and aspirations. This requires responding to the diversity of the needs among all learners by increasing their participation in learning and by reducing exclusion from and within education.

This article resonated with me because the article speaks of addressing the diversity in each child.  Children do learn in different ways and when we learn to accept diversity in each child it will help with exclusion.