Friday, June 6, 2014

Research Around The World


The Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a virtual university for early childhood research worldwide. Some of the most current topics presently are:

·         Strengthening Africa's contributions to child development research: Overview and ways forward. Child Development Perspectives.

·         Developing an international network to support early childhood development (ECD): Results from experience in Africa

·         Think Locally, Act Globally: Contributions of African Research to Child Development

Each of these topics pertain to the current efforts to encourage and maintain early childhood networks and research in Africa. The goals of these research tactics are to improve the capacity of African countries to attain early childhood programs by laying a strong foundation, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Also, to increase understanding among stakeholders of the importance of children’s early development and learning as a key ingredient in children’s success.

The efforts to promote early childhood and secondary education worldwide takes on a variety of research and projects in order to attain the goal of global education available for everyone. The “Brain Gain” video tells the success stories and the accomplishments of graduates who participated in the ECDVU program.

I found the international article on the World Bank project on efforts for the country of Guyana to be extremely interesting as my family is originally from there. The project proposes a secondary education improvement project for Guyana to strengthen the capacity of secondary school mathematics teachers nationwide, and to increase enrollment in general secondary schools in targeted regions.
The video for Brain Gain is below. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykI_YQQkdM&list=PLB13EEF302E2C8F23
 

2 comments:

  1. I am glad to see that as educators we are able to find so many interesting things that give us hope. From all the links that the professor posted this week, you chose this one, what make you choose this webpage? For instance I chose to know more about Australia school program, I know that you mentioned that your family is from Guyana, but there is another reason for choosing this webpage?

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  2. Hello Ashley,
    I found your statement to be interesting, I decided to investigate the same website and I decided to reflect on the article that gave details about the Coordination and supervision in Ghana and it is fascinating how the goals to promote high quality in early learning in every region even of international culture is so intriguing because this is the foundation for educating the world and we must make sure that it is being developed in the proper manner to reach every child in the universe.

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