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Re: Improving the lives of young children - visiting urban slums and remote rural pockets in India

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Re: Improving the lives of young children - visiting urban slums and remote rural pockets in India

To The Early Child Development Community with The Drum Beat network

Re: Improving the lives of young children - visiting urban slums and remote rural pockets in India

Hi and best wishes.

Today's link is to an Oct 18 blog from Margriet Wolters (Bernard van Leer Foundation) describing her visit to BvLF-funded projects in Odisha, India. She details work on a local level on mother tongue language instruction in early childhood education. Let us hear your thinking on language issues and advantages/disadvantages of mother tongue and multi-lingual education in early childhood. Read hear http://www.comminit.com/clickthru/3322a8e2225d364d6a38f75bf32e8ad7?node= and then reply to this email with comments.

I noted a story of empowerment embedded in the blog, as well, and wondered if it might be connected to the completion of secondary school of the young woman whose action resulted in improved access to water and nutrition for her community.(This UN document http://www.comminit.com/global/content/state-world%E2%80%99s-children-2011-adolescence-age-opportunity theorises that completion of secondary education can result in empowerment and more civic participation.) I’ll try to post more on evidence that strong early childhood education leads to more secondary completion. If you can help with evidence, please reply to this email or send to children@comminit.com

All the best, Julie

Julie Levy

The Communication Initiative

http://www.comminit.com

Early Child Development
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