Washington View: Lessons from Benjamin Franklin

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Maria Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social And Emotional Learning ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional

Historian Nick Bunker’s Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity shows that young Franklin benefited from a childhood with an ambitious and loving family, access to educational opportunities, and free time to explore. Maria Ferguson considers how those lessons might apply to contemporary childhoods. From a policy perspective, Franklin’s childhood depended on strong early childhood education, access to higher education, and social and emotional learning. In all three areas, positive steps are being made, although progress is slow.

scholarly journals Social and Emotional Learning Associated With Universal Curriculum-Based Interventions in Early Childhood Education and Care Centers

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. e185727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Blewitt ◽  
Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz ◽  
Andrea Nolan ◽  
Heidi Bergmeier ◽  
David Vicary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional Learning ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Education And Care

scholarly journals Do Curriculum-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs in Early Childhood Education and Care Strengthen Teacher Outcomes? A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 1049
Author(s):  
Claire Blewitt ◽  
Amanda O’Connor ◽  
Heather Morris ◽  
Aya Mousa ◽  
Heidi Bergmeier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Social And Emotional Learning ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Education And Care

There is growing awareness of the benefits of curriculum-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programs in Early Childhood Education and Care settings for children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. While many SEL programs aim to strengthen teachers’ capacity and capability to foster children’s social and emotional skills, research effort has focused on understanding the impact on child outcomes, with less emphasis on improvement in teaching quality. This systematic literature review examined the effectiveness of universal curriculum-based SEL programs on teacher outcomes. Fifteen studies met inclusion criteria, capturing ten distinct SEL interventions. The findings suggest SEL programs may strengthen teaching quality, particularly the provision of responsive and nurturing teacher-child interactions and effective classroom management. Data were insufficient to ascertain whether participation improved teachers’ knowledge, self-efficacy, or social-emotional wellbeing. The potential pathways between SEL intervention, teaching quality and children’s developmental outcomes are discussed.

Social and Emotional Learning and Early Childhood Education: Redundant terms?

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda J Moreno ◽  
Mark K Nagasawa ◽  
Toby Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional Learning ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
School Education ◽  
Whole Child ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Compulsory School ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Social And Emotional

Social and emotional learning is a young field, but a very old concept. The idea that children require explicit instruction in social-emotional capacities is present in the writings of philosophers as far back as Plato, and partly constitutes the roots of the “whole-child development” and “developmentally appropriate practice” frameworks in early childhood education today. Nevertheless, early childhood education has recently been embracing and embraced by the modern global social and emotional learning movement in compulsory school education. Why would early childhood education do this, given its long tradition of prioritizing social-emotional pursuits and, in fact, serving as a model for the rest of the education continuum? Using Minow’s “dilemma of difference” framework, this article critically examines the question of which set of consequences the early childhood education field should choose in the current era—those of potentially superficially modularizing social-emotional concerns and comingling them with undesirable compulsory school education accountability structures, or those of continuing an embedded approach within a potentially generic whole-child philosophy that is difficult to implement in the real world. After considering early childhood education’s challenges with living by its own philosophy, the authors recommend a cautious but proactive acceptance of new social and emotional learning models within early childhood education because this allows a public interrogation of whichever values and methods for imparting them are chosen. The authors argue that an active alignment around social and emotional learning may buffer the early childhood education principles of democracy and child agency against the marginalization from political cross-currents they have historically experienced.

scholarly journals Compensatory Policies Attending Equality and Inequality in Mexico Educational Practice among Vulnerable Groups in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
René Pedroza Flores ◽  
Guadalupe Villalobos Monroy ◽  
Ana María Reyes Fabela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Mexican Population ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
And Gender

<p>This paper presents an estimate of the prevalence of social inequality in accessing higher education among vulnerable groups in Mexico. Estimates were determined from statistical data provided by governmental agencies on the level of poverty among the Mexican population. In Mexico, the conditions of poverty and vulnerability while trying to access better standards of living as well as educational inequality continue to grow at an alarming rate. The number of poor (extreme and moderate) and vulnerable people (according to income and social need) increased from 2008 through 2010 dramatically. The number of people in this situation went from 89.9 million to 90.8 million, which represents 80.64% of the total Mexican population. Only 19.36% of the population is not considered poor or vulnerable.</p><p>The access to higher education is not distributed uniformly throughout the Mexican youth since they belong to different social and economic strata: the least developed regions carry the largest share. Consequently, educational opportunities are unequally distributed mainly across age and gender factors. A distribution imbalance is also found with regard to gender throughout the population observed and analyzed: indigenous females have a significantly higher risk of not having access to higher education than males.</p>

scholarly journals VIVENDO E NARRANDO O “SER PROFESSORA” DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: INCURSÕES DE FRANCISCA

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 336-349
Author(s):  
Silvia Adriana Rodrigues ◽  
Andreia Guilhen Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching Identity

The discussion now presented is an excerpt from a collective investigation, in progress, which aims to understand the ways of constituting professionalism and teaching identity from narratives written by teachers of Basic Education and Higher Education. Thus, within the limits of this article, the reflections triggered by the story of an active teacher in Early Childhood Education are brought up. Reading the writings, based on dialogism and otherness, led us to affirm the formative and reflective potential of the narratives not only for those who narrate, but also for those who read them; as well as the extent to which the teaching construction/constitution paths -even being singular -are influenced by plural and collective elements of the socio-cultural context (concrete and subjective) that the subjects are inserted in.

scholarly journals Investing in education in Europe: Evidence from a new survey of public opinion

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius R. Busemeyer ◽  
Julian L. Garritzmann ◽  
Erik Neimanns ◽  
Roula Nezi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Education System ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
Different Parts

Public opinion research has found that increasing the investment in education is generally very popular among citizens in Western Europe. However, this evidence from publicly available opinion surveys may be misleading, because these surveys do not force respondents to prioritize between different parts of the education system or between education and other social policies, nor do they provide information about citizens’ willingness to pay for additional investment in education. To address these deficiencies, we conducted an original, representative survey of public opinion on education and related policies in eight European countries. Our analysis confirms that citizens express high levels of support for education even when they are forced to choose between education and other areas of social spending. But not all educational sectors enjoy equally high levels of support: increasing spending on general schooling and vocational education is more popular than increasing spending on higher education and early childhood education. Furthermore, we find that citizens are, in fact, willing to pay additional taxes in order to finance investment in education, at least in some countries and for some sectors of the education system.

scholarly journals DEPLOYMENT OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY FOR THE TRAINING OF LIBRAS TEACHERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (173) ◽  
pp. 64-84
Author(s):  
Kate Mamhy Oliveira Kumada ◽  
Rosângela Gavioli Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
General Estimate ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Higher Education Policies ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language ◽  
Education Courses

Abstract The aim of this article is to identify and analyze the deployment of the higher education policies directed at the training of Brazilian Sign Language teachers in the upcoming decade, under decree 5.626 from 2005. Documentary research, based on content analysis, allowed the outlining of a panorama of the courses offered at federal higher education institutions in Bilingual Pedagogy and a Degree in Libras, from 2006 to 2015. The results revealed that the distance learning modality was the main one linked to the expansion of the number of vacancies. However, in a general estimate, there is still a small number of vacancies and higher education courses for these professionals, especially in the segment that includes early childhood education and the first years of elementary school. This shows the lack of graduates from these courses, in the national scenario.

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