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Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 19 November 2018, an international conference on the theme: “Role of Innovative Learning Environment in Enabling Child’s Сomprehensive Development” was conducted at the Wyndham hotel in Tashkent.
Conference organizers: Ministry of Preschool Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Bank Group.
The main purpose of the conference is to study the ways of implementation the innovative educational environments in the field of pre-school education in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
An individuals’ ability of continuously self-improvement occupies an important place in the whole educational system. The hidden potential of an individual is most successfully revealed in the conditions of an innovative educational environment where a two-way process takes place: the formation and development of a child’s personality and stimulating teachers to асt more innovatively.
The conference covered the world experience and the results of scientific researches in the field of innovative educational environment. This conference had become the kind of a platform for the establishment of information exchange of the scientific community of country’s educational institutions. The world’s leading experts shared with their experience achieved and the results of their researches.
The conference was opened by AbdujabarAbduvakhitov, State adviser of the President of Uzbekistan on development of science, education, health and sports, Agrippina Shin, Minister of Preschool Education, Mr. Hideki Mori, World Bank Country Manager for Uzbekistan, Mr. Sasha Graumann, UNICEF Representative for the Republic of Uzbekistan, and others.
“In order to make the preschool education system more competitive some new managing principles are required. We need to ensure its development with the help of informational, personnel, management and financial resources’ integration and cooperation. Efficient mechanisms for projecting and creation of preschool learning environment can promote the development of non-governmental pre-schools, services quality improvement and healthy competition”, - noted Minister of Preschool Education of Uzbekistan Agrippina Shin.
International experts delivered speeches about the implementing projects in the framework of innovative educational environments. One of them has become the professor of the University of Salford, an Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University prof. Peter Barrett, who has been working on the research of the optimal learning spaces and ways to use the educational environment to improve learning outcomes and to engage children within different activities. According to the results of the research, he was the first who revealed that the “smart classrooms” influence effectively on the education quality, highlighting three key concepts: feelings, mind and space.
“From a child rights perspective it is important to provide adequate opportunities for physical, emotional, social and cognitive development of the kid. Children have to have more opportunities for the holistic development. Every third citizen in Uzbekistan is a child, who will become the largest labor force that the country would have ever seen, in the next two decades. It is important to invest in the young children now to optimize their development potential in order to use advantages of the demographic window opportunities. International data shows that investment in the young children is a wise investment for the long-term social and economic development of the country”, - said UNICEF Representative for the Republic of UzbekistanMr. Sasha Graumann.
In addition, there were such presenters as Mr. Kim Jiyong - designer of the Korean construction company Chung Design, which provides high-quality construction services, interior design, equipping public organizations and institutions in Korea; Sherri Le Mottee - the World Bank Senior Early Childhood Development Specialist; Prof. Alexandra G. Gogoberidze - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute of Childhood of the Russian State Pedagogical University A.I. Herzen; Yael Duthilleul - Education Technical Advisor, Council of Europe Development Bank; as well as international experts from the UNICEF Mrs. PreetiVajpeyi and Mr. KabirVajpeyi and others.
“The Government is planning to achieve 100 percent enrolment for children aged 6-7 by 2021. This is an ambitious but achievable goal, and the World Bank is ready to support Uzbekistan with our global knowledge and financial resources in the process of reforms in the preschool education sector. Namely, in 2019, the World Bank will allocate US$55 million for implementing a project designed to ensure that quality preschool services are delivered to small children in the country and improve quality of the national preschool education system, including better learning environment in preschools in rural and urban areas”,- said World Bank Country Manager for Uzbekistan Mr. Hideki Mori.
Within the framework of the conference, more than 400 people took part on topic observations and panel discussions.
The conference has become a key event in the framework of comprehensive measures for the introduction of innovative educational environments in the provision of education in general.