UNESCO's Early Childhood Care and Education Webpage

This week I chose to look through UNESCO's Early Childhood Care and Education Webpage via:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/

A couple of very interesting news pieces and informational pieces were discovered!  It is truly remarkable what we kind find with the click of a mouse.  There is almost an overload of information given to us through the internet so it is especially helpful to visit the websites of organizations we know and trust.

First thing I began to read was an article on the global education initiative.  The ultimate goal of the group that met is to "ensure equitable and inclusive quality education and lifelong learning for all by 2030".  There were seven proposed "targets" discussed that will help to achieve the overall goal.  This kind of initiative serves as motivation and inspiration for all early childhood educators.  Through global perspectives we realize that the issues are bigger than we are and will involve complex, strong, and individual thinkers and doers to find solutions.

Under the "Access and Equity" (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/access-and-equity/) section many issues on the global scale are ultimately the same on the local level.  The website discusses the distribution of resources with respect to the need.  This is just as much an issue in most of our own communities as it is on a larger scale.  Universal access to resources, whether learning or otherwise, should be a priority and UNESCO shows that it is indeed a priority.

One of my favorite readings was regarding "Quality" (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/quality/).  The quality of early childhood education should be evaluated based upon the overall education a child receives.  What I mean by that is the fact that children are not just in early childhood care to learn vocabulary, shapes, etc., but to learn social skills, receive encouragement and motivation, and enhance school readiness.