Personal Development
Personal development in ECD should be about facilitating the development of a positive attitude for each child by instilling self belief, innovation, ethics, perseverance and accountability in each and every child. This aspect should also facilitate the development and adoption of a healthy life style.
Diversity
We live in a very diverse world and ECD should assist children to explore the variety, the differences, the sameness we have, with the aim of facilitating an understanding of why we have such diversity. This should instill tolerance and respect for one another.
Citizenship
Citizenship is about assisting children make their own decisions and take responsibilities for their own lives and the lives of the communities they come from. In ECD this entails facilitating activities that foster individual pride in being who we are whilst instilling cooperation, responsibility and generosity.
Education
It is said education is an act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In ECD education should be about facilitating activities that will create these formative effects. These activities should include among others, activities that assists children to be critical and creative thinkers, problem solvers and effective communicators. This knowledge once acquired at an early age equips them with 21st century skills which they will utilise in all aspects of their lives.
Safe and Sound is a non-profit training organization in the Early Childhood Development sector, committed to play-based, age-appropriate, holistic education programmes.
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With enthusiastic employees, volunteers, practitioners and caregivers, we aim to ensure that each child we have contact with, has a solid foundation for success in life-long learning.
