Early childhood development coming of ag

Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course Maureen M Black, Susan P Walker, Lia C H Fernald, Christopher T Andersen, Ann M DiGirolamo, Chunling Lu, Dana C McCoy, Günther Fink, Yusra R Shawar, Jeremy Shiff man, Amanda E Devercelli, Quentin T Wodon, Emily Vargas-BarÓn, Sally Grantham-McGregor*, for the Lancet Early Childhood Development Series Steering Committee†

Outcome: productivity. (Why?)

• The proportion of children younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries at risk of not attaining their developmental potential because of extreme poverty and stunting remains high (43%).

—> Asia got much better over 5 years

This fi rst paper has fi ve objectives: (1) to update the estimates of children at risk of not attaining their developmental potential; (2) to present a life course conceptual framework of early childhood development; (3) to assess global commitments and progress in early childhood development since 2000; (4) to examine access to centre-based and home-based early childhood development programmes; and (5) to describe crosssectoral opportunities to implement early childhood development programmes.

Sensitive periods      Stunting: 0-24 months      Psychosocial deprivation

Look into The World Bank initiative, Systems Approach for Better Education Results–Early Childhood Development

Barbados & Jamaica: rockin’ the preschool

=========== 2: Nurturing Care ==============

  1. The Britto article is framed around a dynamic system model of “nurturing care”: “a stable environment that is sensitive to children’s health and nutritional needs, with protection from threats, opportunities for early learning, and interactions that are responsive, emotionally supportive, and developmentally stimulating.” This seems like a really effective framing, as does the proposal of “packages” of interventions. Do such framings exist in the Learning Sciences as well? Where are other analogues? 

=========== 3: Optimizing Child Development at Scale ==============

The development of young children has been neglected to date in favour of emphasis on survival and preparation for school.