HOW TO ACHIEVE QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FOR ALL: GOAL 4 OF THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Obtaining a quality education is essential to creating sustainabledevelopment. The overarching Goal 4 of the United NationsSustainable Development Program (UNSDP) ensures that allgirls and boys complete free primary and secondary schoolingby 2030. However, the early years represent the most importantand vulnerable time period in the individual life-span and earlyeducation sets the fundamentals of achieving the overarchinggoal of SDG4. It is regarded as the golden time for ensuringstrong foundations for life chances. Early Childhood Education(ECE) supports children’s survival, growth, development andlearning, including health, nutrition and hygiene, and cognitive,social, physical and emotional development D from birth toeight years old in formal, informal and non formal settings.Therefore, the United Nations (UN) set a sub goal underthis notion exclusively for the early childhood education; By2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality earlychildhood development, care and preprimary education so thatthey are ready for primary education (SDG 4.2). Following theUnited Nations’ notions, The dedicated member countries planactions to achieve the necessities of the Goal 4 by 2030. Theseactions generally fall under eight categories: (1) Access andequity, (2) ECE governance, (3) Curriculum and pedagogy, (4)Teacher training, (5) Nutrition, (6) Family-School-Communitypartnerships, (7) Standards for learning environment, (8) Useof technology and digital materials. The presenter will provideinformation about these domains of improvement in order tomeet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)4.2.