With caregivers’ faces covered, infants and young children will miss out on all the visual cues they’d normally get during stages of rapid developmental growth.
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Parents are children’s first and most influential educators. They can turn ordinary moments into important learning experiences.
The ability of multilingual children to learn and advance academically from pre-primary has little to do with their English proficiency.
Cost-effective, scaleable early childhood development and education programmes can make a huge difference.
Learning languages early makes multilingualism “normal” in classrooms and playgrounds, and builds curiosity and even modest mastery.
Overall, we’ve seen huge improvements, particularly for children aged three to five years, but now we need a universal approach to quality education and care for our youngest children.
Despite good progress in recent years, there is still more to do, including improving access to early childhood education for three-year-olds.
The education minister says that under Labor there were child care price spikes of up to 14% over a 12 month period, but under the Coalition those have fallen to “around 6% on average”. Is that right?
Kenyans need to be wary of early learning centres that pressure children with academic drills.
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.
Under new legislation, children from low-income families will receive just 12 hours of early learning support a week, adding to the risk of these children falling behind their peers at school.
The reorganisation of federal ministerial portfolios this week moved early childhood education and care from social services to education. This is a good thing.
At its simplest, participation is about allowing children to get involved in making decisions that affect their own lives and their own learning experiences.
You could be forgiven for thinking that education was left largely untouched in Tuesday’s federal budget. But the tinkerings to last year’s education budget still mean a “fail” for education funding.
Australia’s facing a slow decline in most educational standards and few are aware just how bad the situation is getting.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has pointed to Canada as the best model of early learning, but he doesn’t understand the full benefit.
Most people have heard that Finland leads the world in education, but fewer have heard that Finland’s neighbour, Sweden, is the international leader in early childhood education and care.
The long-awaited report to government by the Productivity Commission on Childcare and Early Childhood Learning is a disappointment for the sector. The report ignored what leading experts in education and…
There are a lot of babies around, and the numbers are increasing. However, Australia does not have coherent policies that recognise the effect of parenting on workforce participation and vice versa. Parenting…
Last year in an open letter to the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, early childhood employers and peak bodies joined forces to ask for a commitment to early learning. They warned the political…
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