For this
week’s post I have chosen to explore the alternative from the website “Global
Children’s Initiative.” This website main aim is to focus on child health and
development globally. They describe this initiative as “We view healthy child
development as the foundation of economic prosperity, strong communities, and a
just society, and our mission is to advance that vision by using science to
enhance child well-being through innovations in policy and practice” (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/).
The main
goals of this initiative are (1) Building a unified science of health, learning
and behavior to explain the early roots of lifelong impairments; (2) Leaning
the design, implementation and evaluation of innovative program and practice
models that reduce preventable disparities in well-being; (3) Catalyzing the
implementation of effective, science-based public policies through strategic
relationships and knowledge; (4) Preparing future current leaders to build and
leverage knowledge that promotes the healthy development of children and
families and brings high returns to all of society ((http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/).
The three
insights that I have learned from this website is (1) the focus is one the
earliest stages of child development through the use of science; (2) engaging
all necessary stakeholders globally so as to ensure that every one is aware of
early childhood development; (3) the formulation of policies and practices that
will help to guide the initiatives of the organization.
There is so
much we can learn from this global initiative because of the approach they are
using to build early childhood development. The “Global Children’s Initiative”
first focus is to engage and educate the leadership of key international
agencies, publish and disseminate papers to establish a strong scientific
framework for global work and conduct systematic communications research and to
identify the most effective ways to translate the science of child development
for global policy makers(http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/). For the
past weeks we have been discussing how important it is for policy makers to be
knowledgeable about early childhood development. The Global Children’s
Initiative is ensuring that a common framework be established so that all
nations interesting in the development of early childhood have the opportunity
to participate and gain valuable information that will help to formulate
policies that will be relevant and enhance early childhood development.
This kind of
initiative will help us to identify resources, save money and eradicate many
diseases such as HIV that plague our societies.
Judy
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Global Initiatives and Education seems to a current trend with the field. Thank you for exploring the alternative as you gave me insight on a program I wasn't familiar with and also provided a lot of useful information.
ReplyDeleteGlobal Initiative is a great new resources for us all. Thank you for bringing up saving money. With positive and effective early childcare programs the world will save money in the long term.
ReplyDeleteThe three insights that you list are important in every journey towards a more effective early childhood program. Research and data to back up the practices we want to implement, educating our policy makers, and ensuring that the policies and practices are going to be for the betterment of our young children. There are many different disease that they did address in this website and it is important to understand that different countries will have different road blocks. For instance, in Zambia a problem they face is Malaria. This has a direct effect on the young children and their proper development.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. The three insights you gained from exploring the website Global Children's Initiative are important for us to know. Harvard has high influence to the world. the website they built will influence the view of every country for the early childhood education.
Judy,
ReplyDeleteThe three insights were great and very important in the Global Children's Initiative. I selected the same assignment. The initiative is doing an excellent work in informing the world about the issues that affect early childhood development.
In exploring the articles of the child as an active young learner, the articles used the expressions learning and development interchangeably. They also identify and discuss important characteristics of this learning and development. We as professional must learn and understand the developmental processes which enable each child to attain their full potential.
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