Mercedes Mayol Lassalle

Mercedes Mayol Lassalle is World President of the Organisation Mondiale pour l’Éducation Préscolaire/World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) and member of the Board of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). Mercedes is actively involved in the Global Advocacy Group within the global Right to Education initiative.
‘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...
The ‘sum total’: Reimagining early childhood care and education through a gender perspective on the professionThis 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...