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Our World from My Window: Understanding Complex Issues in ECD
Visit BGCafé to meet Sheldon Shaeffer, a frequent, eloquent, informative, and provocative leader in the World Forum community. He regularly contributes to BGCafé by helping us sort through some of the complex issues in early care and development.
The world of early childhood is marked by a number of complex issues concerning who “young” children are, why young children deserve greater attention, and what can be done—and by whom—to ensure their optimal growth, development, and learning, especially for the most vulnerable children. The sheer complexity of these issues can make this world of early childhood a daunting one, for policy makers and practitioners alike, with many competing definitions, policy frameworks, and program priorities. The vision of “Our World from My Window” is the achievement of greater consensus around these issues among key early childhood stakeholders. Each post of this series will, therefore, attempt to both analyze and clarify these issues in terms of the challenges they present and possible solutions available to resolve these challenges.
Episode 1: Issues in ECD
In the first column in this series, Sheldon Shaeffer clarifies the essential issues of conceptualizing early care and development of young children, including ...