Mathias Urban
Mathias Urban is Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education, and director of the Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. Mathias is actively involved in the Global Advocacy Group within the global Right to Education initiative.
Written by Mathias Urban
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 March 2024 The ‘sum total’: Reimagining early childhood care and education through a gender perspective on the profession
Mercedes Mayol Lassalle, Mathias Urban
‘Education’, suggested Austrian psychoanalyst Siegfried Bernfeld in 1925, ‘is the sum total of societal reaction to the fact of ontogenetic development’ (Bernfeld, 1973, 1925). His wide-ranging definition has profound implications as we endeavour to reimagine education for all in the 21st century: education begins at birth (‘ontogenetic development’), education is...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Review of the ILO Policy Guidelines on the Promotion of Decent Work for ECE Personnel
Colette Byrne, Mercedes Mayol Lassalle, Carolina Semmoloni, Mathias Urban
20 March 2024Review of the ILO Policy Guidelines on the Promotion of Decent Work for ECE PersonnelThis report offers an analysis of the application of the ILO (2014) Policy Guidelines on the Promotion of Decent Work for ECE Personnel and provides recommendations for review. It addresses key themes, including the voluntary nature of a commitment level among state and non-state stakeholders, challenges in holding governments accountable...
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Worlds of Education 20 October 2015 Not for Sale? Early childhood education as public good and public responsibilityNot for Sale? Early childhood education as public good and public responsibility
Mathias Urban
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Privatisation in early childhood education - An explorative study on impacts and implications
Mathias Urban
16 October 2014Privatisation in early childhood education - An explorative study on impacts and implicationsThis explorative study reveals a global trend towards increasing privatisation in Early Childhood Education (ECE), threatening to overshadow public ECE. Based on a qualitative inquiry targeting ECE practitioners and union representatives in 14 countries, it gathers practice-based evidence of the impact of privatisation in ECE on a variety of aspects...