To encourage family and community involvement in early childhood services: "families play a central nurturing and educational role in their children's lives…[and] should be assisted by early childhood centres and staff to support their children's development and learning" (OECD, 2006, p.17). 8.
So it is also that the Islamic school is one of the houses of worship, whose aims are confined to acquiring knowledge also, but also it is an educational nurturing ground that raises the individual with comprehensive development of mind and body.
It is our belief that by nurturing young educators, providing didactic exposure to pedagogy in parallel with structured and mentored teaching experience, we may impart useful educational theory and practice upon future generations of teachers at the college level.
Entrepreneurship should be nurtured in any educational environment; not necessarily only in formal education such as universities or colleges.
For the past 15 years, my colleagues and I have been working on the study of Good Work (GoodWork: Theory and Practice project--see goodworkproject.org and goodworktoolkit.org ) as a model for forward thinking that should be nurtured in the educational system.
This may be nurtured by creating educational opportunities that allow pharmacists more interaction with their medical colleagues in their formative years to build confidence and encourage teamwork.
Chris Johnson Austin, Tex., May 17 , 2008 To the Editor: The key for substantially raising the educational level of children in this country is to make the school environment replicate the kind of nurturing, enriched home environment that successful students come from.
It would be impossible to talk about a durable path for the country without talking about pursuing educational excellence, nurturing a culture of innovation and collaboration and building an energy menu that can foster progress through this century without overloading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
