{"id":1427,"date":"2008-06-24T18:41:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2008-06-24T18:41:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:41:14","slug":"education-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2008\/06\/24\/education-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Education for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04707-7.jpg\"><\/a>By:<strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"> Sharif Khan Faculty PDCN<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Early childhood educational development (ECED) is one of the most important and tremendous contribution of the psychologists and educationists of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, which exposed and got popularity in the twenty first century.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04707-7.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1428   alignleft\" style=\"float:left;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04707-7.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>ECED is associated with pre-primary or nursery settings, focusing on the cognitive development and socialization of children (3-8 years). Early childhood is defined as a period from conception to eight years. The emphasis is placed upon the holistic development of the child. It provides opportunity for self-reliance, thinking, reasoning and boost up their self-esteem. ECED helps children\u2019s to improve in communication skills, improved nutrition and hygiene.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Most of ECED planners and implementers believe in the ways of execution or how part of ECED. The points given below are based on many good practices of Professional Development Center North (PDCN) an affiliated organization of the Aga Khan University \u2013Institute for Educational development (AKU-IED). It is viable through supportive policy environment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Supportive Policy Environment<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">The supportive policy environment contributes in ECED execution and makes a difference for the holistic development of children. Governance and management focus on sensitization of the stakeholders, organizing conferences and seminars, caring competent teachers and parental involvement by ensuring the high scope approach of active learning.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Sensitization Of The Stakeholders:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Through workshops meetings and study tours\/field trips of the stakeholders are given priority to embark on what, why and how aspects of ECED by sharing experiences, research findings and field experiences of the ideal ECED center teachers, students, parents and communities in their real context.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Organizing Seminars And Conferences:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Seminars and conferences will help the stakeholders to share their experiences in ECED centers. On yearly basis the governors and management of the ECED class\/centers manage to held seminars and conferences to share experiences and their learning and develop futuristic plan accordingly.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>Financial Allocation To ECED<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">ECED is a demanding resource extensive component and the governors and managers need to mange the resources to ensure the essence, rather to use traditional approaches of resource allocation in hierarchal approaches as common in our traditional educational systems.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Caring Competent Teachers: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">In ECED priority is given to the presence of caring and competent teachers and the factors consider much important are knowledge, skill and attitude. These categories help to contribute in holistic development of children for making them an independent informed responsible citizen.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Parental Involvement;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">It is evident from the World Bank experiences and research reports that from early 1980s, community involvement made a tremendous improvement in developed and developing world in poverty reduction, institutional development in various disciplines such as education, health, rural development, micro-credit and enterprise development etc. Thus, ECED is an area, whereas parental involvement (in border sense community participation, community involvement) works as a key pillar.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>Awareness sessions: <\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>parents, SMCs, Mothers, parents, teachers, managers, Governors such as SMCs, VECs and BOGs etc).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>Mothers\u2019 Day<\/strong>: on yearly basis mothers day is planned to give them opportunity to see their kids\u2019 performances and to share strengths, weaknesses and suggestions for further improvement as based on their learning experiences.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>Parents\u2019 Teachers Meeting<\/strong>: Parents\u2019 Teachers Meeting is tailored as the need arises or planned during the beginning of the year while developing yearly plan for ECED).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Active learning <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">The historical background of the high scope learning initiated by Dr. David P. Weikart (1931-2003) president and founder of high\/scope approach PhD in education and psychology.<strong> \u2018Mamacholasu\u2019<\/strong> is a terminology used in high scope learning. \u2018Mamacholasu\u2019 stands for:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;\"><span lang=\"FR\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">ma =<span>\u00a0 <\/span>material<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;\"><span lang=\"FR\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">ma = manipulation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;\"><span lang=\"FR\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">cho<span> <\/span>= choice<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;\"><span lang=\"FR\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">la<span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>= language<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;\"><span lang=\"FR\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">su<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>= support<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Key learning areas<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Teachers in ECED class\/centre distributes the class in different learning areas and provides opportunities to the kids to visit the learning areas of their choices. The kids get help from the enabling learning environment and feel enthusiasm to participate in different activities independently, whereas, the teachers play the role of guide\/ facilitators and mentors. The key learning areas in an ECED class\/center are math areas, science areas, language areas, construction areas, art and craft areas, music areas and home areas.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">In each learning areas the ECED kids are supposed to learn the concepts related to that particular area by ensuring their active participation and the teachers tailors it by keeping in view the aims and objectives of ECED. An ideal ECED class\/always focus on low cost and no-cost materials with the availability story books, rhymes, poems and the most important thing is their \u2018lunch box\u2019. A good ECED teacher always prepares daily routine for his\/her class and ensures to practice it consistently. A sample of daily routine for ECED class is shared below to get more information and clarity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">A Sample of Daily Routine for ECED Class<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>08:00-08-10<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Dua \/National Anthem<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>08:10-8:30<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Listening and speaking time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>08:30-09:15<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Group work time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>09:15-9:30<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Outside time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>9:30-09:50<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Snack time <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>9:50-10:00<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Planning time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>10:00-11:00<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Gosha Time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>11:00-11:10<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Clean up Time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>11:10-11:30<\/strong> <span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Review Time <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>11:30-12:00<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Story and Rhyme Time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">If our school systems, civil society institutions and communities give priority to ensure the quality of ECED class\/centers in Northern areas (Gilgit-Baltistan), then, there is no doubt that one day our schools become center of excellence parallel to the famous institutions in the globe <span>\u00a0<\/span>and our society will lead to peaceful developed nation. I am sure that the readers will get insights from this article and try to motivate the stakeholders to take initiatives for quality ECED centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;margin:0;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Sharif Khan Faculty PDCN\u00a0 Early childhood educational development (ECED) is one of the most important and tremendous contribution of the psychologists and educationists of the 20th century, which exposed and got popularity in the twenty first century.\u00a0\u00a0 ECED is associated with pre-primary or nursery settings, focusing on the cognitive development and socialization of children &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[4781],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}