Strengthening Early Childhood Education to build the wealth of nations
The World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), held 27-29 September in Moscow, is the first worldwide gathering on the issue regarding children under 6 years old. The conference was an opportunity to highlight the need for a renewed commitment to improving early childhood education
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Rosa Blanco, regional specialist, early childhood education, OREALC/UNESCO Santiago
Making children’s rights effective is one of the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Although progress has been made in Latin America, the challenges are still complex.
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Ten facts about Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)
Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is a crucial factor in human development.
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Latin America and the Caribbean Face the Challenge of Improving the Meaningfulness and Quality of Early Childhood Education, experts agree
The meeting also emphasised the importance of guaranteeing the right to education from an early age, and of developing integral state policies from birth until the age of eight
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Message from Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO. First World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education
Children are our most precious resource. Let us seize the opportunity this conference offers to renew and expand our commitment to a healthy, happy start for all children. By investing in the early years, we shall all be enriched.
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Policy Briefs on Early Childhood
This series of quarterly two-page flash notes on early childhood policy issues seeks to answer questions on the planning and implementation of early childhood policies.
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Buenos Aires (IIPE)
Education and work: coordination and policies
This publication of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP, Buenos Aires Regional Office) analyzes the situation of secondary education in several Latin American countries, explaining in detail the different links with the labor market. Also, it offers a description of some systemic and inter-related training and learning strategies.
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Montevideo
"Coexistence: A guide for the promotion of environments conducive to coexistence in the school, and conflict resolution strategies"
The manual brings together the works of a number of key figures in the educational community (teachers, heads, inspectors, technical personnel, and others), who adopted an action research approach to discuss and to exchange, design, and apply a variety of strategies in the centres.
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Santiago
Factors associated with the cognitive achievement of students in Latin America and the Caribbean: briefing paper
This document presents the most important findings of the study on factors associated with the cognitive achievements of students in Latin America and the Caribbean, summarizing the key factors for the improvement of the learning opportunities among primary education students in the region.
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Santiago
Early Childhood Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
The objective of this publication is to offer a general analysis of the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) situation in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, identifying the key challenges to be addressed and actions to be taken in the region in order to achieve the first objective of Education For All: “expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children”.
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International Mother Language Day: 21 February
The International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1999, has been observed yearly since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
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News from Unesco offices in the region
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