The Khalifa International Award for Early Learning (KIAEL) Awarding Committee members this week praised UNESCO’s Tashkent Declaration for Early Childhood Education’s call to include sustainability and climate change as core guiding principles as knowledge drivers for the global transformation of early childhood care and education (ECCE) systems.
“We are delighted that representatives of 150 countries who participated at the recent World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education in Uzbekistan endorsed the guiding principles of the Tashkent Declaration. They have placed strong emphases on the right of every child to access quality ECCE services; the development of the ECCE workforce; innovation to transform ECCE; and a whole-of-government, multi-sectoral and integrated approach to ECCE,” said conference attendee, Dr. Nirmala Rao, a Chair Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong and Serena H C Yang Professor in Early Childhood Development and Education.
Dr. Rao is one of the KIAEL’s five Awarding Committee members.
The KIAEL is divided into two categories: best research and studies and best programs and teaching practices. The application deadline is February 28th, 2023. Before the deadline, applications must be submitted through the online application system at https://el.khaward.ae/.
“Our mission is to identify and reward both research on early childhood education and care that supports improvements in practice and exemplary programmes or teaching practices demonstrated to improve quality and/or the learning and development of the young children served,” said Dr Barnett, founding Co-Director of the National Institute for Early Education and Board of Governors Professor of Education at Rutgers University.
All programs submitted for consideration by the KIAEL awarding committee would have been subject to an evaluation of implementation or outcomes that provide evidence of implementation and potential or documented impacts on practice in early learning and on early learning outcomes,” said Professor Iram Siraj, Professor of Child Development and Education, University of Oxford.
The KIAEL Awarding Committee will select two winners for each award, with each receiving a cash prize of USD 50,000.
