Dr Sheldon Shaeffer is a former Director of UNESCO’s Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok and a Fellow at The HEAD Foundation.
Drop-out or Push-out?
All over the world, young children leave school, for a variety of reasons, but they are usually seen as voluntarily “dropping out” as if they wake up some day and decide never again to go…
A Crisis in Early Childhood Education
In most education systems in the world, one entity (e.g., the Ministry of Social Welfare) establishes desired outcomes or development standards for children in daycare centres, designs a general curriculum and activities to achieve these…
Critical Issues in Early Childhood Development and Early Learning
The world seems to understand ever more clearly the importance of early childhood development in influencing the later success of children in school and more general well-bring later in life. First, the science of how…
