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Children ask a lot of questions, but they’re not always good ones.
Experts in child health and physical activity offer recommendations for training of early childhood educators, and strategies to get kids moving.
High-quality early child care and education affects children’s overall health and well-being, and is key for all the qualities children need to contribute to society and the economy.
Earth-centred children’s programs that seek to build ethical partnerships with Indigenous communities have an important role in learning about weathering climate change.
Contrary to the belief that resource strained parents invest in academically stronger children, studies show that Ethiopian parents tend to invest more in the child with lower academic capabilities.
Early experiences sharing and developing positive connections, language and communication set the stage for home reading to start children on the path to literacy.
When families need to spend more time and money taking care of their kids on weekdays, it can take a toll on careers – especially for women.
Adults aren’t the only language teachers: six-year-olds still produce sounds differently than adults, but toddlers are extremely good at understanding the speech of children six years and older.
On top of teaching them how to recognize numbers and count to 10, make sure they’re playing with puzzles.
Through a play day filled with choices at the beach with supportive adults, unexpected challenges and social experiences all help children to build far more than sand castles.
Research shows babies in bilingual environments can track the precursors to words, known as word forms, in two languages.
A book nest - or nook - is a cost-friendly way to model and enjoy literacy with your preschooler that invites their creative involvement and offers space for positive connections to grow.
The promised returns on investment in preschool won’t just happen. They depend on a complex chain of events, from preschool through to adulthood, involving the child and their family.
Language milestones matter not as the final word, but as possible signals about where children might be struggling and how they can be best supported to reach their full potential.
An economic evaluation of a program of interventions for Australia’s most vulnerable children has produced startling results.
The main problem plaguing Alberta students’ math performance isn’t the current math curriculum or teacher accountability, but inequality and ballooning class sizes.
For learners in the early stages of reading, the best way to counteract the loss of literacy skills over the summer is not by forcing study but by boosting play that develops fine motor skills.
Kindergarten educators are like detectives who investigate alongside their students and who use students’ creations to gain insight into their development and interests.
Create opportunities for children to see same-sex relationships and gender diversity to prepare them to live and work in today’s society.
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Kerry McCuaig is a Friend of The Conversation.
Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Flinders University
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Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Senior Policy Fellow at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Assistant Researcher, Perlman Lab, Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto
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Assistant Program Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
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Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
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Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Former Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
