The three insights that I have gained from viewing
the UNESCO’s website in Week 6 is:
·
UNESCO’s Quality childcare programs
·
UNESCO and Access and Equity
·
UNESCO’s Education in the 21st
Century
The UNESCO’s high quality childcare programs
especially for the kids in the low-income households and the families that are
at various disadvantages promote cognitive and linguistic development and school
readiness (http://www.unesco.org). Active involvement from parents and communities and relevant play and
learning materials ensure that early childhood services remain relevant to the
needs of the children and all other stakeholders and increases sustainability
(http://www.unesco.org). This statement
ties back to one of my goals which is to instill in parents the importance of
parental involvement. Parental
involvement is vitally important to the development of children in childcare
programs. Building positive
relationships with the students as well as the parents is very important. UNESCO is dedicated to promoting quality
childcare programs.
In dealing
with Access and Equity some countries have made a commitment to expand and
improve early childhood care and education.
This is especially true for low-income and disadvantaged children. The government
was urged to expand equitable access to quality early childhood services
underscoring the importance of instituting policy in favor of the poor (http://www.unesco.org). Alternative services are usually promoted to
the poor children with limited or no access to mainstream the early childhood
services. This often raises concerns
about sustainability and quality. In
some cases the government may have limited resources so they use what is called
a pro-poor policy that allow them to redistribute some of the resources by
reducing the state support for the more privileged children http://www.unesco.org). According
to this article the government must ensure equitable distribution of resources
among the different populations especially those who are in the disadvantaged
regions. Vulnerable children need equal
access.UNESCO’S mission to educate is one of its principal activities to achieve. They are committed to a holistic and humanistic vision of quality education worldwide. The objectives are to support the achievement for all (EFA) to provide global and regional leadership in education, to strengthen education systems worldwide for early childhood to the adult years (http://www.unesco.org). They focus on increasing access and equity as well as improving quality. They work with the governments and a wide range of partners to make education systems more effective through policy change (http://www.unesco.org).
Reference
All Information retrieved from
http://www.unesco.org
I agree that parental involvement is so important. It seems in the past the parents were the head of the family, and the school was there to provide education. Now many schools provide education, after school activities, food, emotional and social support, everything a family used to provide. Sad.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing....Parental Involvement is so essential and yet parents still don't seem to get how important it is. I have always mentioned that learning starts at home. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are for parents nothing should supersedes your child education. Its 24 hours in a day and I'm sure some type of involvement can be done. I do agree that schools are doing everything that families should be doing. The real sad part is when parents get angry when the child never wants to come home, when the the child gets attached to teachers, and when the child listens more to teacher than the parents. Parents can only blame themselves....8 hours of the day a child is in school learning, than parents sign them up for after school care that's another two hours, than the child comes home eat and sleep and parents see nothing wrong with this picture....now that's SAD!!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post! I agree that parental involvement and creating a relationship with the teacher is vital . It creates for the child a connection between the two most important environments that influences them the most. UNESCO's website has so much to offer for information. Cannot wait to explore some more!
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