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An introduction to the course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This course is about children in the context of the…
Introduction: Early Childhood Development for…
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Early care and education is an important sector for young children because it is where children spend the most time aside from their family worldwide, and it corresponds…
Early Care and Education Programs
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This chapter is about socio-emotional development, about when the children develop the important skills for cooperation and contribution in terms of pro-social and moral…
Socio-emotional Development from 3 to 8
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This month, the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is diving into How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson! The live conversation between Jeffrey Sachs and…
Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, How…
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This live Q&A session took place on June 4, 2020, and answered questions related to early childhood development, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2020 Jun. 4
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South Africa has generally experienced economic growth since its transition to democracy in 1994, but has not seen the type of attendant gains in welfare one might have…
Exclusion and inequality in South Africa
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The Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) made no mention of Early Childhood Development except for infant mortality and maternal mortality, which the world has made…
The State of the World's Children
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This chapter discusses the development of cognitive and executive function skills across the ages of three to eight, focusing on themes including pretend or symbolic…
Cognitive Development and Executive Function from…
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This live Q&A session took place on Feb 17, 2021, and answered questions related to early childhood development, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Q&A | Pia Rebello Britto | 2021 Feb. 17
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This chapter introduces the ethical principles for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, and how they relate to the ethical issues encountered in safeguarding.…
Ethics in safeguarding intangible cultural…
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This chapter reflects on the contribution of intangible cultural heritage to generating income and sustaining livelihoods for communities, groups and individuals.…
Intangible cultural heritage and income generation
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This module explores the various definitions and measures of inequality. We're going to look at some of the trends in inequality, largely the income inequality…
Defining inequality
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Language skills continue to develop rapidly between the age of three to eight, most noticeably in vocabulary, pragmatics, which is how children use language in…
Language Development from 3 to 8
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Social protection policies protect the most vulnerable in society, and provide income or in-kind support to households, or increase access to other kinds of services…
Social Protection Programs
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Dramatic changes occur in the areas of physical, cognitive and executive function, language and literacy, and socio-emotional development between the ages of 3 to 8,…
Physical Development from 3 to 8
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Hirokazu Yoshikawa answers questions relating to the first week of our course The Best Start in Life. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
Q&A | Hiro Yoshikawa | 2017 Mar. 6
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