Professional Goals, Hopes and Dreams

For my blog post this week I am doing the alternate assignment. For this alternate assignment, I reviewed UNESCO’s “Early Childhood Care and Education” webpage. Before this week I was not familiar with this site but it had some very interesting information. It had a lot of information about what we have been discussing in this class. “There are four main links on the site titled: “Access and Equity,” “Quality,” “Investment and Funding,” and “Coordination and Integration”(UNESCO.ORG).

One insight I gain is that families and children that live in poverty don’t get much attention from the government like families and children that are more privileged. The privileged families have access to quality early childhood programs. Its like children that live in poverty don’t matter to the government if they have quality child care or not.

Another insight I gain is funding is still one of the main problems when it comes to quality child care. It seems no matter where in the country funding remains the biggest obstacle in promoting equality in accessing quality early childhood education. Funding is especially a big obstacle in areas where poverty is high.

Another insight I gain is that UNESCO has a goal of finding solutions to increase inclusive education. “This is so important because 75 million children are currently excluded from education for several reasons including poverty, disability, inequity, child labor and speaking a minority language”(UNESCO.ORG).. “One of UNESCO's main goals is to develop the full potential of every individual” (UNESCO.ORG).

Reference:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/