Online course | SDG Academy presents “The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development”

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Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:00am to Monday, December 3, 2018 - 5:00pm
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This course trailer introduces The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development, the SDG Academy’s new interdisciplinary course on early child development.

Course trailer (Eng) | Narrated by international music artist and philanthropist, Shakira

This FREE ONLINE COURSE draws on cutting-edge developments in neuroscience, psychology, economics, anthropology and program implementation and evaluation to help students understand how child development is at the center of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The course is co-hosted by NYU Global TIES for Children, Harvard Center on the Developing Child, and UNICEF and is taught by: 

  • Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa (New York University, Global TIES for Children; Expert Consultant, Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC)) 
  • Professor Jack Shonkoff (Harvard Center on the Developing Child) 
  • Professor Catherine Tamis-LeMonda (New York University) 
  • Professor Aisha Yousafzai (Harvard Chan School of Public Health) 
  • Including participation of Pia Rebello Britto (UNICEF Senior Advisor and Chief of Early Childhood Development; Vice Chair, Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC)) 

Start date

This FREE online course starts on September 23, 2018.  Start at any time in the 8 weeks following September 23. 

How to enroll

For course syllabus and enrollment, please visit the course enrollment web page.

Languages

This year all course video lectures have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi to reach a wider audience. 


About SDG Academy

The SDG Academy is a high-quality, mass online education platform for sustainable development that is completely open to all. Its courses feature the world’s foremost experts covering topics including health, education, climate change, agriculture and food systems, and human rights — equipping the next generation of sustainable development practitioners to take on the complex challenges facing our planet.

Learn about Shakira’s Barefoot Foundation

The Barefoot Foundation is a US-based non-profit whose mission is to make education universally available to every child. We support sustainable and innovative education programs while working to educate policy-makers about the vital importance of education. This mission is inspired by ourfounder, international recording artist and philanthropist Shakira.

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