The importance of early childhood care and education in life is well documented. Education during early years has been emphasised in many international documents. The second target of the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) called for ensuring quality early-year care and education for preparing children for primary education. Literature shows that a large proportion of children in developing countries including slums are exposed to multiple risks, which detrimentally affect their cognitive, motor and socio-emotional development. Therefore, high-quality early-year care, education and development is suggested for them. With a few exceptions, the duration of pre-primary education (PPE) is one year in Bangladesh, which is provided by the government and nongovernment schools and NGOs. A national curriculum has been prepared to implement such education. The study concluded that the BEHTRUWC-Sibling Project was a successful one in terms of providing low-cost pre-primary education to the poorer children in the urban community, admission of these children in primary education and completion of such education. The parents were found to be very supportive towards the education of their children and provided various types of educational help.
Authors: Nath, Samir Ranjan; Hossain, Mohammad Anwar; Chowdhury, Tanjeeba
Type: Report
Year: 2018
