For this assignment, I have chosen to do the alternative part since I have not been successful with international contacts. The Harvard website had a lot of important information about Early childhood focus around the globe. It is interesting to read about how the past ten years world policy makers have just paid attention to the field of Early Childhood and the importance of it. Different countries are doing their shared of work but there still work to do. Every fight to bring a better outcome for children depends on the economic state of each country.
There main approach from the Center of development of Harvard University is to focus on child health and development in the early years. For example in high wealthy countries these approaches have worked to treat and prevent diseases as well as promoting a healthy child and social development. However, in middle economy countries their approach is focusing in creating policies which focuses in prevent child malnutrition, prevent diseases for children. In the lower economic countries where poverty, hunger and malnutrition is eminent, their approach is to bring basic health and knowledge of early childhood development. (Harvard University, 2012).
In this website, I also read about Brazil's innovated approach to bring social policies, scholars and leaders together in order to create better laws a policies which will foster equality among children.
It was interesting to read about what this Center focus is as well as the need and importance of promoting and advocating for policies, laws which will serve as a positive outcome for children. As this website could not say it anymore, despite all the different research and information about how important it is to implement a safe, healthy Early Childhood Development approach, there is a lot of work to do. The work is not done with only one set of people but all.
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Harvard University. (2012). Global Child Development. Retrieved by
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/topics/global_child_development/
Hi Ana, I enjoyed reading your post. It seems even though we are very different countries, we are all facing the same types of issues-perhaps only at different levels of severity. I found the information on Zambia quite disturbing, the concern there is survival for many and it seems there is much still to be done before the children of the world can not only get high-quality education and services, but even to have hopes for survival (Fink, Matafwali, Moucheraud & Zuilkowski, 2012). I also have had no luck with international contacts. I have had two responses, only to let me know they couldn't help but had passed my information on to others. But as yet, still no reply. Cindy Ferguson
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Fink, G., Matafwali, B., Moucheraud, C., & Zuilkowski, S. (2012) The Zambian early childhood development project 2010 assessment final report. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/activities/global_initiative/zambian_project/