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Celebrating the International Day of Play 2025
On June 11, 2025, the second International Day of Play was celebrated across the world. This year’s theme, “Choose Play – Every Day,” reminds us all to make daily choices that value and prioritise play in children’s lives. To mark this important day, we invited all our partners to celebrate with the children they work…
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Playful Learning in Early Years
Brief description: The Power of Play and its impact on Early Childhood Learning and Development. Play is an essential part of childhood and stimulates children’s psychosocial and cognitive development, and it is also a right as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Play is what children need to do to…
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Play and nature in children’s lives
Brief description: Play is a universal activity and a universal right of all children, but it is not always straightforward to secure and safeguard. Too often the significance of play in children’s lives is denied, misunderstood, or ignored. Drawing on research and experience from many different countries, this training workshop will consider children’s play in…
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Introduction to early childhood education and care
Brief description: The importance of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is increasingly being recognized internationally. This training provides an introduction to a broad range of topics that are relevant to ECEC practitioners wherever they may be working. The content is informed by ICDI’s wide experience in working with ECEC practitioners in many different countries,…
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Contemporary issues in early childhood care and education
Brief description: The recognition of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) as the first stage of lifelong learning is a welcome recent phenomenon. More than ever before organisations such as UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank are prioritizing ECEC in their policies and programmes. Lots of attention is being paid to increasing access to young…
