New Resource: Global Children’s Initiative

The Center on the Developing Child through Harvard University believes that the vitality and sustainability of any society depend on the extent to which it provides opportunities early in life for all children to achieve their full potential and engage in responsible and productive citizenship. They build a multi-disciplinary science of health, learning, and behavior, advance our understanding of how to reduce preventable disparities in well-being, catalyze the formulation and implementation of effective, science-based policies, and prepare future and current leaders to make science-based policy decisions (Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2010). Having a strong interest in the sciences myself, I really found that the biological and psychological research being completed on behalf of early childhood learning and development has strong significance on standards and decision making in the field. I think that considering scientific evidence of healthy learning and development in young children provides different and accurate benefits for early childhood programs.

The Center on the Developing Child also promotes other initiatives and organizations that use scientific evidence for early childhood and early brain development on positive early childhood education policies (Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2010).

I feel that using scientific study to support the curriculum and standards we set forth for early childhood learning and development would allow for greater unification and equity of programs on a larger scale. Although science does not always fit every circumstance, through ongoing study it can provide more accurate confirmation of the physical, cognitive, and emotional development of a child’s body and mind.

Resources

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children’s initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/