Saturday, October 4, 2014

International Early Childhood

The ECDVU had a link directed towards early childhood events in other countries.

Particularly, Ghana was what struck my interest.

The ECDVU hyperlink connected to Ghana said "Originally known as “porter girls” or “street girls”, called “Kayayo” (singular) or “Kayayei” (plural) in Ga, these adolescent girls migrate in their later childhood or prime ages but, when they become too old or too weak to work, they “retire” and take up jobs as babysitters or caregivers of the children of younger, still-active porter girls," (ECDVU). 

 This part was what intrigued me the most, considering the effect that the early childhood field can have on this type of incident. 

 I feel like internationally, the early childhood field can have a strong influence on this issue from a political standpoint. 

 ECDVU. http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/documents/major_projects/Agorsah%20-%20MP%20Final%20-%20Uvic%20LP.pdf
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  1. Educated2EducateOctober 5, 2014 at 5:45 PM

    Hi Catherine,

    A very interesting fact you shared.

    What is considered too old or too weak? How do you feel that early education can have 'a strong influence' politically concerning this?

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