Category: Early Childhood

Key takeaways and reflections from Early Childhood Education In Emergencies panel at 2023 UKFIET conference

by Priyanka Upreti | Nov 15, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Early Childhood, Education in Emergencies

Conflicts, crises, and climate change have resulted in the displacement of millions of children across the globe. Early childhood education and development (ECED) offers safety, security, and stability for children in crises. Despite its importance, ECED programming in emergencies is not viewed as a central pillar of humanitarian response. Read More

Mapping Early Childhood Development Research for Local Knowledge and Global Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African-based Researchers

by Daniel Hawkins Iddrisu | Oct 24, 2023 | Early Childhood

The duality of Global North and South in the academic space is now a contrast of valued knowledge and undervalued knowledge. As a result of colonialism and systemic bias, knowledge produced from the Global South is often treated with disregard, a core tracer of "epistemic injustice". Read More

Sharing early years education learning: Bringing Ghana’s story to the international UKFIET conference

by Robert Quansah | Oct 19, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Early Childhood

This blog was written by Robert Quansah, Senior ECE Technical Manager at Sabre Education. Robert is currently studying for a Masters in Early Years Education at University...

Rethinking early childhood education in humanitarian contexts

by Sarah Ndlovu | Oct 17, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Early Childhood

In 2018, Children on the Edge started to support 30 communities to provide ECE in learning centres. When these were closed for 83 weeks due to Covid, one of the world's longest lockdowns, they pivoted to provide home learning for small groups of children, close to their homes. Read More

Inclusive early childhood education in Malawi: project development through community participation

by Veronica Stapleton, Betty Moses and Ben Chikaipa | Oct 12, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Early Childhood

Negative social attitudes, inaccessible learning environments, and a lack of investment means that access to ECDE is limited for children with disabilities. Read More

Ahlan Simsim partnership with Ministries of Education: Supporting and scaling for school readiness and beyond

by Chantale Kallas and Samina Singh | Oct 10, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Early Childhood

Education is the foundation for success later in life and a critical tool for reducing global equity gaps. Early education and nurturing care in a child’s earliest years (0-8) are critical, when their brains are undergoing some of the most rapid growth they’ll experience during their lives. Read More

Films for teachers: Supporting language and literacy (pre-)school pedagogy in India

by Ernesto Roque Gutierrez, Shashi Kant Singh, Hannah Simmons, Eliza Elizabeth George, Enxhi Sharxhi, Gideon Arulmani, Saktibrata Sen and Sonali Nag | Oct 4, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Early Childhood

Teachers understand the importance of drawing upon children’s experiences and prior knowledge to make lessons meaningful and valuable to them. This, too, applies to their language. Read More

The place of locally published and unpublished early childhood development research in sub-Saharan Africa

by Eunice Mueni Williams | Oct 3, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Early Childhood

There is growing focus on localisation and decolonisation of research evidence from the Global South. This is driven by the acknowledgement that locally-contextualised and practice-derived research is better placed to inform local investments, policy and practice. Read More

New remote ECE model with large impacts holds promise for SDG 4.2 progress

by Kate Schwartz | Jul 26, 2023 | Early Childhood, SDGs

The last few decades have seen immense gains in global recognition of the critical importance of early childhood education (ECE). Despite this, the goal of universal ECE – as we have traditionally defined it – has remained aspirational: with little progress since 2015 toward the universal quality ECE called for… Read More

Combining monitoring and advocacy for a 10 per cent spending target on pre-primary education

by Pauline Rose and Asma Zubairi | Apr 12, 2023 | Early Childhood

The first five years of a child’s life are among the most critical for their long-term development. This has now become recognised in the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals, which includes an explicit focus on ensuring that ‘all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care… Read More

Involving the community in raising children’s foundational learning outcomes: Evidence from India

by Suman Bhattacharjea, Deepak Kumar and Ricardo Sabates | Jul 18, 2022 | Early Childhood, Literacy and Numeracy

Achieving basic literacy and numeracy skills is fundamental for successful learning through the schooling cycle. Supporting children to achieve these foundational skills requires not just teachers, but multiple stakeholders working together to enable meaningful understandings and applications of these skills. But, how can multiple stakeholders work together to ensure that… Read More

Montessori Model to Build Back Better in Delhi Government School

by Shreyan Acharya and Himanshu Gupta | Jun 27, 2022 | Early Childhood, Learning

The 8th of March 2022 marked a new dawn in the history of government schools in Delhi, especially at the primary level, as the Montessori Lab was launched in a government-run school for the first time. Read More