Skills for Life: Stress and Brain Development in Early Childhood

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Learning to cope with disappointments and overcoming obstacles is part of growing up. By conquering some challenges, children develop resilience. Such normal stressors may include initiating a new activity or separation from parents during preschool hours. However, when the challenges in early childhood are intensified by important stressors happening outside their own lives, they may start to worry about the safety of themselves and their families. This may cause chronic stress, which interferes with their emotional, cognitive, and social development.

Skills for Life: Social Skills for Inter-Ethnic Cohesion

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Social skills are essential to building empowered and cohesive communities in ethnic diversity. In a world with massive population movements and growing anti-immigrant sentiments, schools stand out as important platforms to instill key social skills into our children to build inter-ethnic cohesion. Achieving this requires the implementation of rigorously tested educational actions.

Active Classrooms: The Role of the Teacher as Activator in Student Engagement

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This article presents evidence about the level of association between work with active pedagogies and student commitment or engagement. Specifically, it analyzes the effect that the role of the teacher as activator from a deep learning perspective has on the engagement of secondary students at schools in Uruguay that are part of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL) network.

Active Classrooms: The Role of the Teacher as Activator in Student Engagement

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

This article presents evidence about the level of association between work with active pedagogies and student commitment or engagement. Specifically, it analyzes the effect that the role of the teacher as activator from a deep learning perspective has on the engagement of secondary students at schools in Uruguay that are part of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL) network.

WorkerTech: How Technology Can Improve Emerging Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean (Summary)

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WorkerTech is defined as digital services that offer independent workers benefits to improve the social protection and the productivity. Today, thinking only in terms of full-time salaried work and permanent contracts ignores the millions of people who earn income and shape their lives through a wide variety of unconventional labor relationships, which have proliferated in the 21st century. The shift from traditional salaried work to new modalities implies that workers must reconstruct the labor structure necessary to be able to work. This is where WorkerTech services come in.