Education provides a way to escape poverty and achieve gender equality, peace and upward social mobility. So, Unicef’s fourth Sustainable Development Goal, ‘Quality education’, aims to ensure that by 2030, all girls and boys ‘have access to quality early childhood development, care and preprimary education, so that they are ready for primary education’.
The goal also advocates ‘life-long learning’, which is underpinned by dispositions such as resilience, confidence, taking responsibility and creativity.
To promote children’s understanding of education and support the dispositions that promote lifelong learning, practitioners can draw on New Zealand’s Te Whāriki approach to early learning.
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