Helping our Youngest to Learn and Grow
Policies for Early Learning
This report discusses policies and practices that shape quality and equity in early
childhood education and care. It examines how the work environment, including the
educational background of staff, and the policies that shape teaching approaches affect
the quality of the education provided to our youngest learners. The book concludes
with an overview of current thinking about how young children use, and are affected
by, information and communication technologies (ICT). Linking the way children interact
with ICT inside of school to the way they already use it outside of school could be
the key to unlocking technology’s potential for learning.
Children learn at a faster rate during the first five years of their life than at
any other time, developing cognitive, and social and emotional skills that are fundamental
to their future achievements and well-being throughout childhood and as adults. Despite
compelling evidence that high quality early childhood education and care programmes
can make a crucial difference to children’s progress through school and success in
adult life, large differences in access to and the quality of these programmes persist
within and across countries.
Published on March 14, 2019
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