Professor Iram Siraj | SUSS Public Lecture Series 2022 on Early Childhood Care and Education
Channel: Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)
Date: 21/06/2022

Join the first lecture of the SUSS Public Lecture Series 2022 on Early Childhood Care and Education with host, Associate Professor Sirene Lim (SUSS Vice Dean, S R Nathan School of Human Development and Head of Early Childhood Education with Minor Programme) and speaker, Professor Iram Siraj (Professor of Child Development & Education, University of Oxford).

Professor Iram Siraj presents evidence from research on what constitutes quality early education, its importance and how we can better measure educational quality at the early stages.

Learn more about the SUSS Bachelor of Early Childhood Education with Minor programme: https://suss.to/3aThDja

0:00:00 Introduction
0:04:18 Effective pre-school, primary and secondary education (EPPSE) 1997-2015
- Longitudinal study funded by the UK Dept for Education, Sutton Trust
0:06:20 Factors influencing child outcomes 
0:09:12 Early childhood education and care experience influences long-term outcomes and the wealth of nations
0:11:06 Links between socioeconomic status and development
0:13:52 Early skills beget later skills
0:15:47 Why focus on early childhood?
0:19:46 The importance of the child’s language environment
0:22:42 Ameliorating risks through pre-school attendance and quality
0:23:23 Pre-school quality rating scales (ECERS-R and ECERS-E)
0:27:07 Duration and quality of preschool make a difference
0:28:38 Effects of global quality on academic attainment
0:34:19 Quality of relational pedagogy matters: Caregiver Interaction Scale (Arnett)
0:36:04 Summary
0:37:22 What quality looks like
0:38:38 Parents as home-based pedagogues – Early years Home Learning Environment (HLE)
0:39:29 Pathways to attainment in literacy and numeracy
0:40:16 Components of self-regulation
0:42:11 Family of UK/European/Chinese CLIQRS scales
0:43:17 Comparing ECERS-E and SSTEW scale
0:44:22 Sustained shared thinking
0:46:32 Format of SSTEW scale
0:49:36 Quality of interactions & questioning
0:52:39 Characteristics of sustained shared thinking (Early Ed. SST Project)
0:54:46 Areas identified for professional development (PD) for URLEY (England), FEEL (NSW) and REEL (Vic) studies
0:56:41 Child-initiated learning and focused learning (DCSF, 2009)
0:58:49 References
0:59:36 Q&A
1:27:56 End

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