While looking through
the UNESCO
website I can across information regarding education around the world. I looked
at a few countries and found some interesting information on Africa. The UNESCO
has made Africa its priority, they feel that education is key
to the region’s development. UNESCO has many field offices serving Africa and
they work to keep education high on the agenda of governments and development
partners.
They had information on
access and equity, they talked about how countries try to promote alternative
services for poor children with limited or no access to mainstream early
childhood services which can be cost-effective and pedagogically innovative,
but often it can raise concerns about sustainability and quality (UNESCO, 2012).
They also provided information on how governments must ensure a fair supply of
resources among different populations and especially those who live in the most
disadvantaged regions. This approach is aim to expand access without creating
serious regional inequities. (UNESCO, 2012).
Investment and financing
is another topic that was discussed on the website. Countries have the greatest
difficulty with their efforts to expand and improve the quality of early
childhood care and education is the mobilization of resources. This has become for
the most part discouraging in developing countries, where early childhood is
overshadowed by other pressing priorities, such as universal primary education.
(UNESCO, 2012).
Hi,
ReplyDeleteGood post. Africa seems to be the main focus for international assistance and as you said, many countries in Africa have challenge in distributing their resources to the area of greatest need which we have discovered to be early care and education. While Universal Basic Education is important, laying a solid foundation through proper child care at birth through 5years will yield greater result in terms of developmental gains.
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ReplyDeleteGreat Post! Love the topic that you bought up saying that countries have the greatest difficulty with their efforts to expand and improve the quality of early childhood care and mobilization of resources and that it has become very discouraging in developing countries, This statement is true even in our country so I can only imagine what it it like in those developing nations.
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