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Julie Kasper – Childhood Education, 2024
To be sure, learning happens within a vast and complex ecosystem: not only in schools and not only with teachers. School leaders, policymakers, parents, food and nutrition workers, groundskeepers, WASH experts, and students themselves, among many others, contribute to a thriving education ecosystem. Alongside teachers, these individuals co-create…
Descriptors: Ecology, Teacher Role, Teacher Welfare, Teacher Empowerment
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Marianne Larned – Childhood Education, 2023
The climate crisis raging around the world challenges each person to do whatever they can to help their children, their communities, and the planet. Educators have an opportunity to respond in a thoughtful, empathic, action-oriented way. In this article, the author discusses climate education and how educators can help students understand that…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Ecology
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Younes, Mona; Noe, Nele – Childhood Education, 2023
Pratham Education Foundation was founded in 1995 to target issues with pre-primary and primary education in the slums of Mumbai. Since then, it has developed into one of the largest NGOs in India. In response to the critical shortage of affordable, accessible quality early childhood education (ECE), Pratham established numerous holistic ECE…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Mothers, Holistic Approach, Early Childhood Education
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Mistri, Shaheen; Jain, Manasi; Patekar, Shivani; Narekuli, Devisha – Childhood Education, 2022
This article discusses the Kids Education Revolution (KER). KER is a bold and ambitious project under Teach For India's innovation cell that is empowering students on their own journeys of changemaking through collective action, and creating opportunities and spaces for educators and kids to listen to and learn from each other.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Leadership, Student Empowerment, Educational Change
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Mirna Muhammad Al-Mir; Julie Kasper; Sara Kassab; Jehad Khisania; Abbass Maanna; Yanal Moussa; Soha Safa Andari; Melia Shamas – Childhood Education, 2024
UNESCO, the Teacher Task Force, and the International Labour Organization continue to highlight the need to create healthy, thriving working conditions for educators. They seek respect and dignity in the education professions, as demonstrated through regular, fair, and life-sustaining remuneration, as well as through recognition of the expertise,…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Teacher Empowerment, Foreign Countries, Work Environment
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Andrea Estey – Childhood Education, 2024
In gatherings facilitated by Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools staff, fellows have the chance to connect, collaborate, and support each other; to draw inspiration from invited speakers, ranging from artists to climate scientists; and to have dedicated time to work on their own projects. Participants find the program to be…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Climate, High School Teachers, Environmental Education
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Zaharah Namanda; Rebecca S. Levine; Amy V. Bintliff – Childhood Education, 2024
Uganda hosts the largest number of refugees of any country in Africa. To protect the rights of refugees in the country, Uganda has designed policies regarding the right to quality education participation and freedom of expression. The authors' non-profit organization, Africa Education & Leadership Initiative (Africa ELI), works with refugee…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Educational Policy, Childrens Rights
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LeeAnne Lavender – Childhood Education, 2024
Many educators and leaders in international schools around the globe recognize the value and urgency of global citizenship education (GCE) and the need to empower PreK-12 students to engage in authentic community engagement and active local and global citizenship. To this end, many educators use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Sustainability, Elementary Secondary Education
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Janna Pahnke; Julia Oberthuer; Nina Henke – Childhood Education, 2024
In today's dynamic world, children are growing up amid unprecedented global challenges. From the urgency of the climate crisis to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, alongside such persistent issues as international conflicts, demographic shifts, and social inequality, the youngest generation faces a landscape much different from that of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, World Problems, Problem Solving
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Williams, Amy – Childhood Education, 2020
In many parts of the world, multiple challenges affect children's ability to access and benefit from education. Innovations that provide multiple solutions can be truly transformative. This article describes the impact one company has had for good on rural villages in Ghana. Empower Playgrounds has developed electricity-generating playground…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Playgrounds, Playground Activities
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Rentzou, Konstantina – Childhood Education, 2019
Early childhood development (ECD) policies and programs are increasingly recognized as having a strong, positive impact at both the individual (e.g., learning, health, behavior) and societal (e.g., inclusion, social cohesion, earnings) levels. Yet, little attention is given to the lived experiences and working conditions of the workforce who…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Early Childhood Teachers, Empowerment
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Vásquez, Betsabé – Childhood Education, 2021
The Northern Triangle of Central America faces many challenges, including violence and crime. Young people are the most common victims as well as perpetrators of violence, especially gang-related violence. That is why Glasswing International is committed to providing children, adolescents, and youth with tools to prevent violence and opportunities…
Descriptors: Violence, Crime, Juvenile Gangs, Youth Programs
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Nieuwland, Romée – Childhood Education, 2022
On average, over 45% of the population in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Malawi is under 14 years old, making access to quality education imperative to improve the socioeconomic circumstances for this generation and those to come. However, children in rural areas are confronted with daily challenges, such as extreme poverty, violence (including sexual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Athletics, Child Development
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Park, Su – Childhood Education, 2018
A healthy self-identity is vitally important to a child's well-being and consequent ability to learn at an optimal level. As educators and other service providers seek to ensure that the children with whom they work have the best chances to succeed, they are recognizing the need for innovative ways to support children as they build those healthy…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Identification (Psychology), Child Development, Adoption
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Hauge, Chelsey – Childhood Education, 2020
This article describes how one organization addresses social-emotional health during the pandemic. Positive Parenthood follows a relationship-based approach to bring calm and comfort to the adult-child relationship (be it between parents and children or teachers and children). They focus on children's sovereignty and the adult's capacity to…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Electronic Learning, Mental Health, Pandemics
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