“So I have a built-in empathy for poor children, as well as
a deep belief, based on my own life, that just because you're poor that doesn't
mean you're inadequate.”
-Edward Zigler PhD
"Learning is not a purely cognitive exercise;
to learn, children need to have good physical and mental health and have
families whose needs are met."
-Edward Zigler PhD
-Edward Zigler PhD
"The fact that not only
do you have to consider children as individuals, but you also have to consider
children as members of groups with their own cultural identities." –Susan Bredekamp
"Effective teachers are intentional in everything they do–they
are purposeful, they’re planful, they know why they’re doing what they’re doing
and they can explain it to other people.”
-Susan Bredekamp
All of those quotes are true. Just because you are poor does not mean is something wrong with YOU!! Something is wrong with the circumstance but not the child. I think people forget that when I child comes to the class and may be rumpled in their appearance. It's not their fault.
ReplyDeleteI also need to be able to explain to parents what is developmentally appropriate. The country I am teaching is does not understand what is appropriate learning for young children.
I truly enjoyed reading all your quotes and believe them to be true. I especially like the last quote about effective teachers are intentional and purposeful. My agency puts on workshops for parents about purposeful play. It allows the parents to see why we do, what we do. Often parents feel we are "just playing" with the children, but there is intention and purpose behind it.
ReplyDeleteHello Tia, enjoyed reading
ReplyDeleteDeciding are not to have a baby should be a joyous time and great hope for a healthy baby. In reading over 287,000 women die from pregnancy and childbirth. Complications in about 7-10 million women as well as girls will suffer from severe and long lasting illnesses cause by these complications. Women do not need to suffer or die; most of these lives could be saved relatively easy and cheap. Overall in developing countries such as Africa, a women’s life span in regards to the dying in pregnancy or childbirth is risky and is about 1 in 150 in comparison to the 1 in 3800 in other developing countries. According to Maternity Worldwide (2015) states,
• “In Sub-Saharan Africa the maternal mortality ratio is 500 per 100,000 live births.
• In Sub-Saharan Africa the lifetime risk of dying in childbirth risk rises to 1 in 39. This compares with a risk of just 1 in 4600 for mothers living in the UK.
Living in rural areas in reading, there is poor access to any type of health care services and if so, most are too far and die in childbirth than those living in urban areas. Maternity Worldwide (2015) states, “Being a young mother brings additional risks. This is often linked to child marriage with 1 in 3 girls in developing countries being married before the age of 18.
• Girls and young women aged 15-20 are twice as likely to die in childbirth than those in their 20s.
• Girls under the age of 15 are five times more likely to die from maternal causes than adult women.
• In sub Saharan Africa, 46% of girls are married before the age of 18.
• Complications in pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death amongst adolescent girls in most developing countries.”
The impact of the effects is devastating for the child, their families, and their communities. In reading over a million children lose their parents in childbirth; these children are likely to die in the premature stage than those with parents. The impact on these children are in not receiving the proper nutrition, proper health care if any, and proper education. Implications for a mother’s death leads to continual cycles of poverty as well as their health, which is very poor. As well, a big burden is on developing counties on a wider scale, productivity is lost to maternal and newborn deaths (estimation over $15 billion).
Reference
Maternity Worldwide. (2015). Saving children’s lives. Retrieved from: http://www.maternityworldwide.org/the-issues/