Gender in Early Childhood Education: Addressing Inequalities in Opportunity and Pedagogy

Date & Time Sep 6, 2023 07:00 PM in India

Pratham is an innovative learning organization created to improve the quality of education in India. As one of the largest non-governmental organizations in the country, Pratham focuses on high-quality, low-cost, and replicable interventions to address gaps in the education system. Established in 1995 to provide education to children in the slums of Mumbai, Pratham has grown both in scope and geographical coverage.

The Population Council’s Evidence for Gender The Population Council is a leading research organization dedicated to building an equitable and sustainable world that enhances the health and well-being of current and future generations. We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world.

The Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER) is the first freely available resource to help the global gender and education community make informed decisions about their programming, investments, and policy and research priorities. EGER is a searchable, easy-to-use, interactive database for practitioners, researchers, donors, and decision-makers to drive better education results for girls, boys, and communities around the world. Through data visualizations EGER shows the greatest education needs of girls and boys, what’s being done to meet them on the ground, and where evidence, and evidence gaps, exist.

Pratham and The Population Council’s Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER) is hosting a UNGA side event webinar on September 6 at 7 pm IST.

Samyukta Subramanian of Pratham and other prominent speakers will talk about “Gender in Early Childhood Education: Addressing Inequalities in Opportunity and Pedagogy”.

Description

The Population Council’s Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER) program and Pratham are thrilled to invite you to a webinar to discuss gender inequalities in accessing and within the early childhood education environment, to be held on Wednesday, 6 September 2023, from 9:30 am to 10:45 am EDT. Early childhood education can bring substantial benefits to children by improving their socioemotional development and school-readiness, and the benefits can last a lifetime. Following the Sustainable Development Goal of universal coverage of at least one year of preschool education, increasingly more low- and middle-income country (LMIC) governments are planning for, or implementing, early childhood education programs. Although this is great progress, the principles of equity and inclusion are often not fully embedded in these policies. Presenters will discuss the importance of early childhood education in LMICs, gender responsive pedagogy, and gender gaps in preschool enrollment in India. Speakers:

Nicole Haberland, Senior Associate, Population Council (Chair)
Nirmala Rao, Serena H.C. Yang Professor in Early Childhood Development and Education, Professor, Chair of Child Development and Education, Director, Consortium for Research on Early Childhood Development and Education (CORE), The University of Hong Kong
Samyukta Subramanian, Co-Lead, Early Years, Pratham Education Foundation, India
Arindam Nandi, Associate II, Population Council • Dana Schmidt, Program Director, Echidna Giving (Discussant)

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