RSF Trustee Hirokazu Yoshikawa to Teach MOOC on Early Child Development
RSF trustee Hirokazu Yoshikawa (New York University) will serve as an instructor for an SDG Academy online course titled “The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development.” The course, co-hosted by the NYU Global TIES for Children, the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, and UNICEF, will begin on September 23, 2018. Seminars will draw from neuroscience, sociology, anthropology and other fields to analyze successful early childhood care programs, explore how children’s brains develop before the age of three, and look at how nutrition impacts the future well-being of a child into adulthood.
Yoshikawa is co-author of the RSF book Cradle to Kindergarten (2017), author of the RSF book Immigrants Raising Citizens (2011), co-editor of the RSF book Making It Work: Low-Wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development (2006), and a former a visiting scholar at the foundation.