Getting To Know Your International Contacts-Part 3

After viewing the webpage from UNESCO “Early Childhood Care and Education “what I found out that was interesting was……………………………….


“The mission of the UNESCO Education Sector is to:

• Provide international leadership to create learning societies with educational opportunities for all populations.

• Provide expertise and foster partnerships to strengthen national educational leadership and the capacity of countries to offer quality education for all.

• Work as an intellectual leader, an honest broker and clearing house for ideas, propelling both countries and the international community to accelerate progress towards these goals.

• Facilitate the development of partnerships and monitors progress; in particular by publishing an annual Global Monitoring Report that tracks the achievements of countries and the international community towards the six educations for all goals. ”

However reading, Dakar Framework for Action Education for All: Meeting our Collective Commitments discusses, six education goals and strategies that is designed to enable all individuals to understand their right to learn and to fulfill their responsibility to contribute to the development of their society focuses on these six goals and strategies as follows:

• “Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.



• Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality.



• Ensuring the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills program.



• Achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.



• Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.



• Improving every aspect of the quality of education, and ensuring their excellence so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.”



With “Dakar Framework for Action Education for All: Meeting our Collective Commitments” focusing on the six education goals and strategies is an essential tool that will make a better future for young children as well as addressing appropriate learning for young people and adults.

Reference:



Retrieved from: (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/),

Retrieved from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121147e.pdf