Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

For Blog assignment five, we have thought about and reviewed issues related to the excellence and equity in the early childhood field and how these issues and concerns foster various conversation topics.  I have explored and reviewed Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” and have discovered lots of new ideas and insights about early childhood systems around the globe.

Three issues that I found related to the excellence and equity in the early childhood field from the Howard University reading, “Global Children’s Initiative”, was the issue of social and economic indifferences and development, the issues and impact of language barriers, and the struggles and possible outcomes of poverty.  All of these issues that I read about from Howard University can wreak havoc on the excellence and equity of learning in the early childhood field.

To aid in the assistance of these problems around the globe, The Global Children’s Initiative (GCI), that was established in 2009, to advance center’s mission internationally through a collaborative, science based approve to trying to improve survival, health, learning and the behavior(s) of children facing significant adversities(http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/).  As a focal point to aiding in the three issues that I read about in the Howard University reading, “Global Children’s Initiative”, I found that since 2011, GCI has been involved in its first major programming effort in Brazil to help with the vulnerability of children around the globe lacking sustainable social and economic development. The readings also made me knowledgeable of the GCI’s efforts in Chile, China, Sierra Leone and Zambia to provide support, inform the natives of those countries about daily, basic survival skills necessary for low to middle income families as a preventative method of poverty which has a tremendous barring on the excellence and equity of early childhood learning and progression.  Lastly, from the readings I was made aware of the GCI, initiative to assist in bridging the communication gaps around the globe.  GCI, with the help of contributors has been able to convert several of the centers learning videos into Portuguese and Spanish as English is not common to many countries around the globe thus making it difficult for learning if teachers and video learning are solely taught in the English language.

In conclusion, I found the reading to be very informative and productive.  Therefore, I signed up to receive electronic updates from the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child.

 

Neketha

Reference:

Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/)

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