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Why early childhood education is a good start

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The economic and social conditions for resilient dynamism can be created from a very early stage. Building on the intuition of pioneers such as John Dewey and Maria Montessori (the latter’s 60th anniversary was celebrated this year), there is now striking scientific evidence of the social and economic benefits of early childhood education. Early education has the potential to train children to become citizens who are more likely to succeed in school and to contribute to society in their later lives through enhanced economic productivity, and taxes.
Yet, guaranteeing access and quality of early childhood education is incredibly challenging. That resonates globally: from Germany to China to Nigeria. Apart from a few exceptions like in Scandinavia, access to early childhood education remains limited and targets set at the national or regional level are broadly unmet. Quality is equally challenging; services often boil down to informal, non-regulated home-based centres or hybrid day-care solutions offering working parents a parking spot for children that are useful but not comparable to an educational experience.
Why then, if the social and economic dividends of educating the youngest children are too great to be ignored, does policy and ultimately investment in early childhood education lag so far behind science?
One reason is simply culture and information. A mix of mentality and ignorance at all levels still doesn’t make early childhood education really seen as an opportunity of long-term investment in human capital for an individual, a family and society at large. Rather, it is still seen as optional, or simply as an optional cost. Culture also has an impact on the quality of teachers. A general lack of professional recognition and respect, relegating the job to basic day-care, underpaid and undertrained, does not help make what should be a beautiful, essential profession appealing to enough strong candidates. This is a vicious cycle.
Cost is also a huge issue: good early childhood education – no matter whether public or private, or both, and no matter the methodology – is very expensive for everybody (families, cities, countries, corporations). In addition, it is something policy-makers can hardly justify, as its positive effects are too long-term versus a standard political horizon.
Moreover, policies for early childhood education may conflict with other policies. For example, Germany is trying, on one hand, to promote and subsidize early childhood education to complement the growth of the workforce by enabling women to work longer hours. On the other hand, having to address low birth rates through policies that extend maternity leave ultimately risks diverting support and funds from early childhood education because, in the end, mothers would stay at home more.
In addition, weak governance and inefficient organization may hold countries back from improving the provision of early childhood education. For example, early education is often treated not as an education issue but as a family and childcare issue because of the urgency of securing day-care, and the ministry in charge is usually social affairs, not education. Misallocation of funds, ineffective decentralization and other issues also affect early childhood education provision.
These and other challenges take the emphasis away from the notion of child development through education and the opportunity of investing in it.
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2014 International Youth Dance Festival has begin

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, August 24, 2013

The application of “2014 International Youth Dance Festival”which is supported by Macau Education and Youth Affairs Bureau and co-organized by Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau and Education Forum for Beijing has been started.
 The dance festival, scheduled for July 18th to 24th, 2014 in Macau, now has already been open to signing-up and consultation. The deadline will be set to October 31st, 2013. By then, all the application materials should be posted to Macau Education and Youth Affairs Bureau. The groups passing the examination and verification will receive invitation letter that will be sent from January 2014. (The application form can be downloaded on the webpage of “2014 International Youth Dance Festival”)   
    This biannual event, which has been successfully held 13 times, is increasingly becoming a world gala. This event is aimed at building a platform for youth dancing enthusiasts from different countries and regions to establish friendship, conduct cultural exchange and demonstrate diversified dancing culture.
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China International Education Cooperation and Innovation Expo 2013

Posted by Unknown on Thursday, August 22, 2013


the “2013 china international education cooperation and innovation expo” will surely be held from oct. twenty fifth to oct. 27th in chengdu, sichuan province, china. the expo is one among the largest and the majority renowned national education expos in western china. supported via the western china international honest and education forum for asia annual conference, the theme on your expo is “international communication and cooperation, innovation and creations”. the expo continues out to be hosted via the education forum for asia annual conference, and of course the sichuan bureau of expo affairs. the education sectors of sichuan province and chengdu town also will offer their support accordingly. the expo is anticipated to strengthen international educational communication and cooperation, introduce a few new and effective educational resources, and boost the level of exchanges for many the attendees. 
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Too much watch TV threatens the ability of children

Posted by Unknown on Sunday, August 18, 2013

kids below 5 years is simply too long watching tv might well be left behind within the whole ability to speak and numeracy. 

recent research additionally concluded that for infants aged 2 years, each only hour of excess watched 2 hours of watching time limit might result in an adverse affects educational ability and he's a lot of risky in-bully. 

this can be since they are approximately able to follow the method of self-aggrandizement as concentration issues and unhealthy physically fit. 
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The Launch of the 2013 Education Forum for Asia Annual Conference Invitation Process

Posted by Unknown on Friday, August 2, 2013

the 2013 education forum for asia annual conference will surely be held from october 24-27, 2013 in chengdu town throughout the 14th western china international honest. this years event will surely be hosted by chinese national commission for unesco, national center for education development research, chengdu municipal government, sichuan bureau of expo affairs, education department of sichuan province, and will surely be organized by education forum for asia, chengdu bureau of expo affairs, and chengdu education bureau. the theme of the years conference is “green education and sustainable development. 

the event of education has an excellent impact inside the national prosperity, its voters wellbeing and of course the future on your country. thus, it’s the common goal for all those educators to actually maximize the utilization of study materials and equalize the distribution of education resources. 

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How to create a Smarter Brain

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Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, U.S., has examined the mouse brains. They found that the brains of mice grew by 4 percent when they were forced to carry out mental tasks every day, for example, find a way out of the winding hallway, climb stairs, and socialize with other mice.


Well, the mouse brain can be trained to grow up, let alone the human brain. The more trained, our brains are definitely escalating. Memory loss in a certain amount at any age is fair, as the changes in other organs. Importantly, do not be lazy to diligently train our brain that memory remained strong throughout the period.
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