04/02/2019 Technical brief #3: Learning through play Our third technical brief zooms in on the positive effects of learning through play, its characteristics and VVOB's approach to integrating it in early childhood education... Global Early education
20/12/2018 Schooling for Learning in Africa: facing forward with VVOB In their latest publication ‘Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa’, the World Bank and Agence Française de Développement identify ways forward to improve learning outcomes. VVOB shares its good practices from working in South Africa, DR Congo, Rwanda and Zambia. DR CongoRwandaSouth AfricaZambia Early educationSecondary educationPrimary educationSecondary technical and vocational educationTeachersSchool leaders
06/12/2018 #GirlsEdu: Blending gender and early childhood education At the Brookings annual Girls Education Research and Policy Symposium in November, VVOB made a case for gender-responsive early childhood education and teased our upcoming toolkit for preschool teachers to put this pedagogy into practice. Global Early education
25/10/2018 Boosting professional reflection and change in preschools Quality teachers play the most important role in improving children’s learning outcomes. VVOB works alongside teachers in ethnically diverse districts in Vietnam to make sure every child benefits from quality education by applying process-oriented child monitoring. Vietnam Early educationTeachersEquity
26/09/2018 Diversity in preschools: an asset Trần Thị Kim Lý, education advisor for VVOB in Vietnam, shares how a tool called 'process-oriented child monitoring' can help keep all children on board in preschool, even the most vulnerable ones... Vietnam Early educationTeachersEquity
04/09/2018 Keeping preschoolers safe from gender stereotypes in Vietnam In our new EU-co-funded project dubbed GENTLE in Vietnam, VVOB and national gender organisation CGFED put gender-responsive play-based learning into practice both in preschools and at home. Vietnam Early educationTeachersSchool leadersGender
30/04/2018 Same but different: teaching preschoolers in diverse Vietnam and Flanders In a normal workweek, Gerda and Ingrid support teachers and school leaders. But in March, they spent an intense period with Vietnamese educational officers at provincial and district level. First in Belgium, then in Vietnam. BelgiumVietnam Early educationEquity
19/12/2017 "A schoollink between preschoolers forms the basis for their global citizenship” Preschool teachers Charlotte, Stephanie and Sofie travelled to their partner school in Kabwe, Zambia, to meet their Zambian colleagues for the first time: “We hope our schoollink takes on a life of its own.” BelgiumZambia Early education
05/09/2017 VVOB Vietnam colleague joins ARNEC Filip Lenaerts, education advisor with VVOB Vietnam (small picture), will be joining the ARNEC Steering Committee until June 2019: “ARNEC has an enormous potential to bring researchers, practitioners and policy makers together and translate innovations in concrete commitments for the disadvantaged... CambodiaVietnam Early education